The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, כרכים 9-10 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 78
עמוד 10
... circumstances is peculiar to generous minds . Men of that sort ever taste the gratifications of health , and all other advantages of life , as if they were liable to part with them ; and , when bereft of them , resign them with a ...
... circumstances is peculiar to generous minds . Men of that sort ever taste the gratifications of health , and all other advantages of life , as if they were liable to part with them ; and , when bereft of them , resign them with a ...
עמוד 25
... circumstances that are both cre- dible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art of ...
... circumstances that are both cre- dible and astonishing ; or , as the French critics choose to phrase it , the fable should be filled with the probable and the marvellous . This rule is as fine and just as any in Aristotle's whole Art of ...
עמוד 26
... circumstances as are wonderful , but not impossible , and so frequently produce in the reader the most pleasing ... circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle , that the barbarous in- habitants of the country ...
... circumstances as are wonderful , but not impossible , and so frequently produce in the reader the most pleasing ... circumstance , Polydorus tells a story from the root of the myrtle , that the barbarous in- habitants of the country ...
עמוד 28
... circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glorious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem . He looks down into that vast hollow of the universe with the eye , or , as Milton calls it in his first book ...
... circumstance , fills the mind of the reader with as surprising and glorious an idea as any that arises in the whole poem . He looks down into that vast hollow of the universe with the eye , or , as Milton calls it in his first book ...
עמוד 29
... circumstances , that the reader can scarce forbear fancying himself employed on the same distant view of it : Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected , shines ; That place is earth ...
... circumstances , that the reader can scarce forbear fancying himself employed on the same distant view of it : Look downward on that globe , whose hither side With light from hence , though but reflected , shines ; That place is earth ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
acquaintance Æneas Æneid affected agreeable angels Ann Boleyn appear beautiful behaviour behold called Callisthenes character cheerfulness colours consider creature Cynthio dauphin of France death delight desire discourse endeavour entertainment eyes fancy father Fidelio gentleman give grace Gratian hand happy hear heart heaven Homer honour humble servant humour ideas Iliad imagination innocence Jupiter kind lady letter live look MADAM mankind manner Margaret Clark matter Menippus mind Mohocks nature neral never night observed occasion OVID paper Paradise Lost particular passed passion Paul Lorrain person pleased pleasure Plutarch poem poet present racter reader reason received reflections secret sight Sir Roger soul speak SPECTATOR spirit take notice tell thee thing thou thought tion told town tural ture VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words writ writing yard land young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 231 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread ; My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade Though in a bare and rugged way, Through devious lonely wilds I stray.
עמוד 177 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
עמוד 338 - The swain in barren deserts with surprise Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise ; And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
עמוד 339 - See heaven its sparkling portals wide display, And break upon thee in a flood of day.
עמוד 175 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up...
עמוד 265 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory, Or monument to ages ; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers. In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?
עמוד 160 - 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 bow'd, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
עמוד 247 - And strait conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...
עמוד 337 - And bid new music charm th' unfolding ear: The dumb shall sing, the lame his crutch forego, And leap exulting like the bounding roe. No sigh, no murmur, the wide world shall hear. From every face he wipes off every tear. In adamantine chains shall Death be bound. And Hell's grim tyrant feel th
עמוד 334 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.