The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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action admiration Aelian Aeneis affections allusion ancient appear Aristotle beauty BISHOP OF WORCESTER cerned character chuses circumstances comedy comic common conclusion copied critic degree delight disposition doth drama draught end of poetry entertainment epic Euripides expression fable fancy FARCE genius ginal give GONDIBERT Greece Greek hath Homer human humour idea imagery imagination imita instance invention Italian Jonson kind language Latin learned Ludlow Castle manners MARKS OF IMITATION mean Milton mind modern nature nihil numbers object observation occasion original particular passion peculiar perhaps periphrasis persons picture Plato Plautus pleasure poem poet poet's poetic Pope proper province racter reader reason reflexions religion repre representation resemblance rhyme RICHARD HURD ridicule rience scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew similar sion sort speak species Statius taken taste Theophrastus things thought tion tragedy true truth turn verse Virgil WILLIAM JEPHSON words καὶ
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258 ページ - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, -and riddle of the world!
246 ページ - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
247 ページ - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
245 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
292 ページ - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
284 ページ - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
125 ページ - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
284 ページ - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
249 ページ - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
234 ページ - Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients may as well say our faces are not our own because they are like our fathers...