Elements of Criticism, 1. köideJ. Thompson, 1819 |
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... touching a smooth , soft , and velvet surface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its existing any where else . 7 * Du Bos judiciously observes , that silence doth not Introduction, 17.
... touching a smooth , soft , and velvet surface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its existing any where else . 7 * Du Bos judiciously observes , that silence doth not Introduction, 17.
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... by qualifying the human mind. * Du Bos judiciously observes , that silence doth not tend to calm an agitated mind ; bat that soft and slow music hath a fine effect . * A taste for natural objects is born with us INTRODUCTION . fix.
... by qualifying the human mind. * Du Bos judiciously observes , that silence doth not tend to calm an agitated mind ; bat that soft and slow music hath a fine effect . * A taste for natural objects is born with us INTRODUCTION . fix.
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... doth our power extend ; and ; that power is sufficient for all useful purposes : to have more power , would probably be hurtful , instead of being salutary . Will is not the only cause that prevents a train of thought from being ...
... doth our power extend ; and ; that power is sufficient for all useful purposes : to have more power , would probably be hurtful , instead of being salutary . Will is not the only cause that prevents a train of thought from being ...
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... doth ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure : the course of nature , however , hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending ...
... doth ; and in raising the mind to elevated objects , there is a sensible pleasure : the course of nature , however , hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending ...
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... doth joy rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of any violent distress of mind or body ; and in no situation doth sorrow rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of what makes us happy . The sensibility of our nature ...
... doth joy rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of any violent distress of mind or body ; and in no situation doth sorrow rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of what makes us happy . The sensibility of our nature ...
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Page 186 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 239 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 79 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 74 - Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: — Look, in this place, ran Cassius* dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd And, as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar...
Page 411 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 405 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 406 - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 236 - It must not be : if Cassio do remain, ' He hath a daily beauty in his life, That makes me ugly ; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him ; there stand I in much peril : No, he must die : — But so, I hear him coming.
Page 400 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 401 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...