Elements of Criticism, Band 1J. Thompson, 1819 |
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... surprise because they are unexpected : such relations , being of the slightest kind , readily occur to those only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in a good measure incompatible with solid judgment ...
... surprise because they are unexpected : such relations , being of the slightest kind , readily occur to those only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in a good measure incompatible with solid judgment ...
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... surprise by being unexpected , and yet are natural , enliven greatly an epic poem : but in such a poem , if it pretend to copy human manners and actions , no improbable incident ought to be admitted ; that is , no incident contrary to ...
... surprise by being unexpected , and yet are natural , enliven greatly an epic poem : but in such a poem , if it pretend to copy human manners and actions , no improbable incident ought to be admitted ; that is , no incident contrary to ...
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... surprise , of wonder , and sometimes of terror . Emotions raised by inanimate objects , trees , rivers , buildings , pictures , arrive at perfection almost instantaneously ; and they have a long endurance , a second view producing ...
... surprise , of wonder , and sometimes of terror . Emotions raised by inanimate objects , trees , rivers , buildings , pictures , arrive at perfection almost instantaneously ; and they have a long endurance , a second view producing ...
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... surprise are always produced in perfection : reiterated impressions made by their cause , exhaust these passions instead of inflaming them . This will be explained afterward . * In the next place , when a passion hath for its foundation ...
... surprise are always produced in perfection : reiterated impressions made by their cause , exhaust these passions instead of inflaming them . This will be explained afterward . * In the next place , when a passion hath for its foundation ...
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... surprise , which also suddenly decay , another reason concurs , that their causes are of short duration : novelty soon degenerates into familiarity ; and the unexpectedness of an object is soon sunk in the pleasure that the object ...
... surprise , which also suddenly decay , another reason concurs , that their causes are of short duration : novelty soon degenerates into familiarity ; and the unexpectedness of an object is soon sunk in the pleasure that the object ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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!
Seite 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.
Seite 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?
Seite 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...