Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 31
... possible , with force and simplicity , is absolutely necessary , as in the famous instance quoted by almost every critic from Longinus to the present time : " And God said , let there be light - and there THE SUBLIME . 31.
... possible , with force and simplicity , is absolutely necessary , as in the famous instance quoted by almost every critic from Longinus to the present time : " And God said , let there be light - and there THE SUBLIME . 31.
Side 34
... critics- But how forcibly do they impress us with the idea of the omnipresence of God ? Wherever we are , we are in his actual custody and keep- ing , in his hand : " There also shall thy hand lead me , and thy right hand shall keep me ...
... critics- But how forcibly do they impress us with the idea of the omnipresence of God ? Wherever we are , we are in his actual custody and keep- ing , in his hand : " There also shall thy hand lead me , and thy right hand shall keep me ...
Side 36
... nations tremble and obey ; " To crush the proud , the suppliant foe to rear , " To give mankind the peace , or shake the world with war . " PITT . Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the 36 THE SUBLIME .
... nations tremble and obey ; " To crush the proud , the suppliant foe to rear , " To give mankind the peace , or shake the world with war . " PITT . Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the 36 THE SUBLIME .
Side 37
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the sublime , in what they call the still sublime , and the sublime of passion . The former however is the true sublime , though we find ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. Critics have established a further distinction with respect to the sublime , in what they call the still sublime , and the sublime of passion . The former however is the true sublime , though we find ...
Side 42
... 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 .
... 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 .
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3dly 4thly admire afford allegory animated antient appears argument arrangement beautiful Blair book of Job called catachresis Cicero circumstances common comparison composition conclude correct critic DEAR JOHN Demosthenes didactic discourse divine effect elegant eloquence example excellence excited exordium expression fancy figurative language frequently genius Gibbon guage harmony hearers Hudibras humour ideas imagery imagination instance introduced irony Isocrates kind letter Livy Lord manner mean ment metaphors metonymy mind modern narrative nature neral never nosyllable object obscurity observed orations oratory ornament passion pathetic perhaps person Pitt plain pleasure poetry principal prose prosopopoeia reader remark resemblance respect rhetoric ridiculous rules scarcely senate sense sentence sermons Shakspeare short sion Sisera sometimes speak speaker species speech style sublime synecdoche taste tence thing thou thought tion trochee truth tural Turenne verb verse words writer young