Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism: On Poetry and Musick, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning, 第 6 卷Hopkins & Earle, 1809 |
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... ancient dialect , which , though not perhaps in familiar use among the Greeks at the time he wrote , was however intel- ligible . From the Homerick to the Socratick age , a period had elapsed of no less than four hundred years ; during ...
... ancient dialect , which , though not perhaps in familiar use among the Greeks at the time he wrote , was however intel- ligible . From the Homerick to the Socratick age , a period had elapsed of no less than four hundred years ; during ...
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... ancient dialect of Greek ) , there is no article . Yet , though the article had been in use in Homer's age , I imagine that he , and every other Greek poet who wrote hex- ameters , would have often found it necessary to leave it out ...
... ancient dialect of Greek ) , there is no article . Yet , though the article had been in use in Homer's age , I imagine that he , and every other Greek poet who wrote hex- ameters , would have often found it necessary to leave it out ...
第 34 頁
... ancient . In Scotland , even , morn , bide , swagę , are still in vulgar use ; but morn , except when contradistinguished to even , is synonymous , not with morning , ( as in the English poetical dia- lect , ) but with morrow . The ...
... ancient . In Scotland , even , morn , bide , swagę , are still in vulgar use ; but morn , except when contradistinguished to even , is synonymous , not with morning , ( as in the English poetical dia- lect , ) but with morrow . The ...
第 46 頁
... ancient criticks allow , that they may be ad- mitted into prose ; where they occasionally con- fer dignity upon a sublime subject , or , for rea- sons elsewhere hinted at , † heighten the ludi- crous qualities of a mean one . But it is ...
... ancient criticks allow , that they may be ad- mitted into prose ; where they occasionally con- fer dignity upon a sublime subject , or , for rea- sons elsewhere hinted at , † heighten the ludi- crous qualities of a mean one . But it is ...
第 47 頁
... ancient have something venerable in their appearance , and impart a solemnity to all around them . This remark is from Quintilian ; who * Instit . Orat . lib . 10. cap . 1. § 4 adds , that they give to a composition that cast Chap . I ...
... ancient have something venerable in their appearance , and impart a solemnity to all around them . This remark is from Quintilian ; who * Instit . Orat . lib . 10. cap . 1. § 4 adds , that they give to a composition that cast Chap . I ...
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第 68 頁 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
第 204 頁 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
第 68 頁 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
第 214 頁 - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. 2. CLO. But is this law? 1. CLO. Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. 2. CLO. Will you ha
第 183 頁 - ... wisdom is a fox, who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof, to a judicious palate...
第 178 頁 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
第 113 頁 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
第 364 頁 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
第 143 頁 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
第 138 頁 - The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...