Specimens of the British CriticsCarey and Hart, 1846 - 344 стор. |
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... Homer ! The next was from Tas- so's Rinaldo , and the third - risum teneatis amici — from the Artaban of Monsieur Calpranede ! Unquestionably our En- glish heroic plays were borrowed from the French - as these were the legitimate ...
... Homer ! The next was from Tas- so's Rinaldo , and the third - risum teneatis amici — from the Artaban of Monsieur Calpranede ! Unquestionably our En- glish heroic plays were borrowed from the French - as these were the legitimate ...
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... Homer made the Iliad in hexameters , no man can tell ; but having done so , he thereby_constituted for ever the proper metre of Greek and Latin - Epic poetry . But what a multitude of subjects , how different from one another does that ...
... Homer made the Iliad in hexameters , no man can tell ; but having done so , he thereby_constituted for ever the proper metre of Greek and Latin - Epic poetry . But what a multitude of subjects , how different from one another does that ...
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... Homer , or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil , the pattern of elaborate writing . I admire him , but I love Shakspeare . To conclude of him , as he has given us the most correct plays , so , in the precepts which he ...
... Homer , or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil , the pattern of elaborate writing . I admire him , but I love Shakspeare . To conclude of him , as he has given us the most correct plays , so , in the precepts which he ...
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... Homer's was another Thersites quite - finely called by Coleridge " the Caliban of demagogic life " -loses all individuality , and is but a brutal buffoon grossly carica tured . The scene between Ulysses and Achilles , with its wondrous ...
... Homer's was another Thersites quite - finely called by Coleridge " the Caliban of demagogic life " -loses all individuality , and is but a brutal buffoon grossly carica tured . The scene between Ulysses and Achilles , with its wondrous ...
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... Homer's angry ghost repine in vain . " The best hand of any man that ever lived , at prologue and epilogue was Dryden . And here he showed himself to be the boldest too ; and above fear of ghosts . For though it was a make - believe ...
... Homer's angry ghost repine in vain . " The best hand of any man that ever lived , at prologue and epilogue was Dryden . And here he showed himself to be the boldest too ; and above fear of ghosts . For though it was a make - believe ...
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Сторінка 299 - Nor public flame, nor private dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine Lo, thy dread empire, Chaos ! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall, And universal darkness buries all.
Сторінка 99 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear, unchang'd, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides : In some fair body thus th...
Сторінка 57 - You are my true and honourable wife ; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Сторінка 57 - This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air : thence I have follow'd it, Or it hath drawn me rather.
Сторінка 102 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Сторінка 189 - He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed of him, he has taken into the compass of his " Canterbury Tales " the various manners and humours (as we now call them) of the whole English nation, in his age. Not a single character has escaped him.
Сторінка 267 - So spake the Son : but Satan, with his Powers, Far was advanced on winged speed : an host Innumerable as the stars of night; Or stars of morning, dew-drops, which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Сторінка 101 - Tis more to guide than spur the Muse's steed, Restrain his fury than provoke his speed : The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.
Сторінка 70 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Сторінка 37 - But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him : no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets " Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.