Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 13
... antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates us ; it is that correspond- ent emotions are at once excited in our minds by what we see or what we read , without re- ferring to the ...
... antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates us ; it is that correspond- ent emotions are at once excited in our minds by what we see or what we read , without re- ferring to the ...
Side 30
... by swell- ing out to all eternity : an object unpropor- tioned to our capacity , as is thy being , O thou antient cause ! Older than time , yet young with fresh eternity ! " In vain we try to fathom the abyss of 30 THE SUBLIME .
... by swell- ing out to all eternity : an object unpropor- tioned to our capacity , as is thy being , O thou antient cause ! Older than time , yet young with fresh eternity ! " In vain we try to fathom the abyss of 30 THE SUBLIME .
Side 42
... account , could ad- mire the French tragedies . Racine has less of bombast than Corneille , and Voltaire perhaps than either . There are some circumstances , the antient critics would call them common - places , which when 42 THE PATHETIC .
... account , could ad- mire the French tragedies . Racine has less of bombast than Corneille , and Voltaire perhaps than either . There are some circumstances , the antient critics would call them common - places , which when 42 THE PATHETIC .
Side 76
... antient among the Persians than Zoroaster , or Zerdusht . " - Bo- LINGBROKE . The conjunction here is per- fectly equivocal , and the reader will certainly mistake the sense , unless he previously knows that Zoroaster and Zerdusht are ...
... antient among the Persians than Zoroaster , or Zerdusht . " - Bo- LINGBROKE . The conjunction here is per- fectly equivocal , and the reader will certainly mistake the sense , unless he previously knows that Zoroaster and Zerdusht are ...
Side 113
... antient ; and the other falls so grossly into the censure of the old poetry , and preference of the new , that I could not read either of these strains without some indigna- tion ; which no quality among men is so apt to raise in me as ...
... antient ; and the other falls so grossly into the censure of the old poetry , and preference of the new , that I could not read either of these strains without some indigna- tion ; which no quality among men is so apt to raise in me as ...
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