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according action ancient appear beauty become beginning better body cause character common considered continued criticism death divine drama earth effect English example exist express eyes fact faith father feelings follow force French genius give given greater greatest hand hath hope human ideas ignorance imagination Italy judge judgment kind King knowledge known language laws learned leave less light living Lord manner matter means mind nature never noble objects observation once opinion original pass passions perfect perhaps persons philosophy plays pleasure poem poet poetry preface present produced reader reason received rest sciences seems sense Shakespeare sometimes soul speak spirit supposed things thought tion translated true truth turn understand universal unto verse whole write written
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258 ページ - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. 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.
258 ページ - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
213 ページ - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
224 ページ - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
217 ページ - It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare.
174 ページ - But enough of this : there is such a variety of game springing up before me, that I am distracted in my choice, and know not which to follow. Tis sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.
286 ページ - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
318 ページ - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
279 ページ - It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart.
216 ページ - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
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| 書籍名 | Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Harvard classics 第 第 39 巻 巻 |
| 翻訳 | Hippolyte Taine, John Allen, Andrew Motte |
| 寄与者 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman |
| 出版社 | P.F. Collier & Son, 1910 |
| ページ数 | 462 ページ |
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