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Page xix
... True , that was the general subject . But I mean ... I have it ; false criticism . I said , that the sentiments of an au- thor , or his general matter was all that was now considered by the critic . Consequently his language is entirely ...
... True , that was the general subject . But I mean ... I have it ; false criticism . I said , that the sentiments of an au- thor , or his general matter was all that was now considered by the critic . Consequently his language is entirely ...
Page xxv
... True . They should be enough to satisfy any man of or- dinary stomach . But , now I am at the shelves , I will take down a volume of MURRAY'S Byron , and open it at hazard , to show you how other distinguished critics write . Volume ...
... True . They should be enough to satisfy any man of or- dinary stomach . But , now I am at the shelves , I will take down a volume of MURRAY'S Byron , and open it at hazard , to show you how other distinguished critics write . Volume ...
Page xxvii
... true genius , and inconsistent with true poetry . Let me ask , then , what is all nature but the result of art ? of art divine ; for none of us will suppose that its Author acted without rule , where order is uni- versally to be ...
... true genius , and inconsistent with true poetry . Let me ask , then , what is all nature but the result of art ? of art divine ; for none of us will suppose that its Author acted without rule , where order is uni- versally to be ...
Page xxviii
... True ; and what is quite as valuable , more sense . But your speaking of imagination leads me to notice another mis- take into which people have fallen through the misguidance of false critics . The world in general has very little idea ...
... True ; and what is quite as valuable , more sense . But your speaking of imagination leads me to notice another mis- take into which people have fallen through the misguidance of false critics . The world in general has very little idea ...
Page xxix
... true poet can derive from any subject , be it , as has before been said , a broomstick . And this brings me to what we agreed to call the florid style . We see it frequently asserted , that such and such a one's prose is full of poetry ...
... true poet can derive from any subject , be it , as has before been said , a broomstick . And this brings me to what we agreed to call the florid style . We see it frequently asserted , that such and such a one's prose is full of poetry ...
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accent admiration Æneid Æsop ALEXANDER POPE ARTHUR CARRYL bard beauty behold BIANCA BLANCHE blank verse breast brow cæsura CALAIS Canto cheek CLEON criticism dear delight Devil earth Eclogues English epigram Epistle eyes fancy fear feel FELIX fire flowers fool FROISSARD fustian gentle give grace hand heart Heaven hero hexameter JUVENAL king language LATIUM less light lips look look'd maid man's MDCCCXLI mean measure MELEAGER metre mind mix'd moral muse nature neath never o'er passion PEBBLE perhaps Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetry POPE reader rhyme rose round RUBETA rythm satire seem'd seen sense siege of CALAIS smile song soul sound SOUTHEY spirit spondee suppose sweet syllable taste tell thee thine things thou thought tion truth turn'd verse vex'd VIENNE Vision voice vulgar WALTER MANNY words WORDSWORTH write
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Page 304 - Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi Laudat rura sui : mox reficit rates Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati. Est, qui nee veteris pocula Massici, Nee partem solido demere de die, Spernit ; nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus, nunc ad aquae lene caput sacrae.
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Page 312 - Arida nutrix. Pone me pigris ubi nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aura, Quod latus mundi nebulae malusque luppiter urget ; 20 Pone sub curru nimium propinqui Solis in terra domibus negata : Dulce ridentem Lalagen amabo, Dulce loquentem.
Page 320 - Vulcanus ardens urit officinas. nunc decet aut viridi nitidum caput impedire myrto aut flore terrae quern ferunt solutae; nunc et in umbrosis Fauno decet immolare lucis, seu poscat agna sive malit haedo.
Page 122 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your Wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! 'Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day "Knives and "Scissors to grind O!
Page 306 - Venator, tenerae conjugis immemor ; Seu visa est catulis cerva fidelibus, Seu rupit teretes Marsus aper plagas.
Page 241 - Archangel : but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage and considerate pride, Waiting revenge : cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold...
Page 310 - Sive facturus per inhospitalem Caucasum vel quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes. Namque me silva lupus in Sabina, Dum meam canto Lalagen et ultra...
Page 46 - And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent : and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plagu e thereof was exceeding great.
Page 318 - Solvitur acris hiems grata vice veris et Favoni, trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, ac neque iam stabulis gaudet pecus aut arator igni, nec prata canis albicant pruinis.