Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious Narratives, with Observations on Some of the Most EminentMundell, 1805 - 174 頁 |
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... presents , will be often viewed through such a mist of passion and prejudice , as to prevent his forming a correct judgment respecting them . Admitting , then , the necessity of some addi- tional information , the question is , in what ...
... presents , will be often viewed through such a mist of passion and prejudice , as to prevent his forming a correct judgment respecting them . Admitting , then , the necessity of some addi- tional information , the question is , in what ...
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... presents men and things , must be very different from that in- which he is ever likely to view them . There may even be a danger , lest very great fami- Harity with these splendid occurrences should withdraw his attention too much from ...
... presents men and things , must be very different from that in- which he is ever likely to view them . There may even be a danger , lest very great fami- Harity with these splendid occurrences should withdraw his attention too much from ...
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... present their characters in a ludicrous and amusing point of view , they are naturally led , instead of a faithful representation of nature , to give very strong caricatures . With the same view of entertaining their readers , they have ...
... present their characters in a ludicrous and amusing point of view , they are naturally led , instead of a faithful representation of nature , to give very strong caricatures . With the same view of entertaining their readers , they have ...
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... present essay , it is to be under- stood in this limited sense , not as signifying , in general , works whose tendency is favour- able to morality . Tales , written with a view to instruction , are generally of this kind ; insomuch ...
... present essay , it is to be under- stood in this limited sense , not as signifying , in general , works whose tendency is favour- able to morality . Tales , written with a view to instruction , are generally of this kind ; insomuch ...
第 18 頁
... the last importance , does not properly belong to the present subject . The question is respecting the comparative merits of real and fictitious history . Now , though it cannot be denied , that , in the 18 Advantages of these.
... the last importance , does not properly belong to the present subject . The question is respecting the comparative merits of real and fictitious history . Now , though it cannot be denied , that , in the 18 Advantages of these.
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第 163 頁 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
第 167 頁 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
第 165 頁 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
第 168 頁 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
第 158 頁 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place* I cannot discover, why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate ; but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
第 158 頁 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
第 164 頁 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
第 157 頁 - ... made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain.
第 155 頁 - But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects.
第 155 頁 - It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature ; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation : greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness.