The Spectator ...Angier March, 1803 |
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第 vii 頁
... verse fell out by divine permission , which we are not to search into . You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain , before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and ...
... verse fell out by divine permission , which we are not to search into . You have passed that year of life wherein the most able and fortunate captain , before your time , declared he had lived enough both to nature and to glory ; and ...
第 8 頁
... verses : These equal syllables alone require , Tho ' oft the ear the open vowels tire , While expletives their feeble aid do join , And ten low words oft creep in one dull line . " The gaping of the vowels in the second line , the ...
... verses : These equal syllables alone require , Tho ' oft the ear the open vowels tire , While expletives their feeble aid do join , And ten low words oft creep in one dull line . " The gaping of the vowels in the second line , the ...
第 9 頁
... verse should like the torrent roar , When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and ... verses ; as in the four first it is heaved up by several spondees intermixed with proper breathing places , and at ...
... verse should like the torrent roar , When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw , The line too labours , and ... verses ; as in the four first it is heaved up by several spondees intermixed with proper breathing places , and at ...
第 10 頁
It would be endless to quote verses out of Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in the numbers ; but I ... Verse 2 , the Essay on the Art of Poetry 3 , and the Essay upon Criticism 4 . ADDISON . C. No 254. FRIDAY , DECEMBER ...
It would be endless to quote verses out of Virgil which have this particular kind of beauty in the numbers ; but I ... Verse 2 , the Essay on the Art of Poetry 3 , and the Essay upon Criticism 4 . ADDISON . C. No 254. FRIDAY , DECEMBER ...
第 34 頁
... verses are in poetry . Music therefore is to aggravate what is in- tended by poetry ; it must always have some passion or sentiment to express , or else violins , voices , or any other organs of sound , afford an entertainment very ...
... verses are in poetry . Music therefore is to aggravate what is in- tended by poetry ; it must always have some passion or sentiment to express , or else violins , voices , or any other organs of sound , afford an entertainment very ...
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第 360 頁 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
第 8 頁 - Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
第 364 頁 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd ; For contemplation he, and valour, form'd ; For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him...
第 364 頁 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
第 255 頁 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
第 164 頁 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed, Innumerable.
第 255 頁 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
第 293 頁 - There went a fame in heaven, that he ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven.
第 133 頁 - ... chief talent, and indeed his distinguishing excellence, lies in the sublimity of his thoughts. There are others of the moderns, who rival him in every other part of poetry ; but in the greatness of his sentiments he triumphs over all the poets, both modern and ancient, Homer only excepted. It is impossible for the imagination of man to distend itself with greater ideas than those which he has laid together in his first, second, and sixth books.
第 291 頁 - O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the Torturer; when to meet the noise Of his almighty engine he shall hear Infernal thunder; and, for lightning, see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented torments.