Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism: On Poetry and Musick, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning, 第 6 巻Hopkins & Earle, 1809 |
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... sentiments that may happen to predominate in his mind . And hence , to judge whether his language be natural , we must attend , not only to the habitual temper , but also to the present passions , and even to the age of the speaker ...
... sentiments that may happen to predominate in his mind . And hence , to judge whether his language be natural , we must attend , not only to the habitual temper , but also to the present passions , and even to the age of the speaker ...
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... sentiments . In Greece and Rome , the corruption of literature was a consequence of the corruption of manners ; and the manly simplicity of the old writers disappeared , as the nation became effeminate and servile . Horace and Longinus ...
... sentiments . In Greece and Rome , the corruption of literature was a consequence of the corruption of manners ; and the manly simplicity of the old writers disappeared , as the nation became effeminate and servile . Horace and Longinus ...
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... sentiments of an illiterate peasant . So that in the epick poem , ( and in all serious poetry , narrative or didactick , wherein the poet is the speaker , ) language , in order to be natural , must be suited to the assumed or supposed ...
... sentiments of an illiterate peasant . So that in the epick poem , ( and in all serious poetry , narrative or didactick , wherein the poet is the speaker , ) language , in order to be natural , must be suited to the assumed or supposed ...
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... sentiments of serious poetry are copied from the images and sentiments , not of real , but of improved , nature ; † so the lan- guage of serious poetry must ( as hinted already ) be a transcript , not of the real language of na- ture ...
... sentiments of serious poetry are copied from the images and sentiments , not of real , but of improved , nature ; † so the lan- guage of serious poetry must ( as hinted already ) be a transcript , not of the real language of na- ture ...
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... sentiment or image does not support it , " differs in nothing from prose . Our poetry , on the con- trary , has a language peculiar to itself ; to which al- every one that has wrtiten has added something , 66 most 1. A few Greek and ...
... sentiment or image does not support it , " differs in nothing from prose . Our poetry , on the con- trary , has a language peculiar to itself ; to which al- every one that has wrtiten has added something , 66 most 1. A few Greek and ...
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