Elements of Criticism, Volume 2Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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Page 45
... writer ; but is scarce intitled to be styled a writer of bu- mour . This quality belongs to an author , who , affecting to be grave and ferious , paints his objects in such colours as to pro- voke mirth and laughter . A writer that is ...
... writer ; but is scarce intitled to be styled a writer of bu- mour . This quality belongs to an author , who , affecting to be grave and ferious , paints his objects in such colours as to pro- voke mirth and laughter . A writer that is ...
Page 151
... writer affume the precise character and paffion of the personage re- prefented . This requires an uncommon genius . But it is the only difficulty ; for the writer , who , forgetting himself , can thus perfonate another , fo as to feel ...
... writer affume the precise character and paffion of the personage re- prefented . This requires an uncommon genius . But it is the only difficulty ; for the writer , who , forgetting himself , can thus perfonate another , fo as to feel ...
Page 153
... writers , inftead of expressing a paffion like one who is under its power , content themselves with defcribing it like a ... writer's part is much more complicated : he must join compofi- VOL . II . U tion tion with action ; and , in the ...
... writers , inftead of expressing a paffion like one who is under its power , content themselves with defcribing it like a ... writer's part is much more complicated : he must join compofi- VOL . II . U tion tion with action ; and , in the ...
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