Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 148
... comparison , otherwise than by being perfonified . Shakespear compares ad- verfity to a toad , and flander to the bite of a croco- dile ; but in fuch comparisons these abstract terms muft be imagined fenfible beings . To have a juft ...
... comparison , otherwise than by being perfonified . Shakespear compares ad- verfity to a toad , and flander to the bite of a croco- dile ; but in fuch comparisons these abstract terms muft be imagined fenfible beings . To have a juft ...
Page 149
... comparisons of this delicate kind , and appears fingularly happy in them . * I proceed to illuftrate by particular inftances the different means by which comparisons , whether of the one fort or the other , can afford pleasure ; and ...
... comparisons of this delicate kind , and appears fingularly happy in them . * I proceed to illuftrate by particular inftances the different means by which comparisons , whether of the one fort or the other , can afford pleasure ; and ...
Page 150
... we never knew . Waller . The laft exertion of courage compared to the blaze of a lamp before extinguifhing , Taffo Gierufalem , canto 19. ft . 22 . None None of the foregoing fimiles , as they appear to 150 CH . XIX . Comparisons .
... we never knew . Waller . The laft exertion of courage compared to the blaze of a lamp before extinguifhing , Taffo Gierufalem , canto 19. ft . 22 . None None of the foregoing fimiles , as they appear to 150 CH . XIX . Comparisons .
Page 151
... , polluto corpore , florem , Nec pueris jucunda manet , nec cara puellis . Catullus . The The imitation of this beautiful fimile by Ariofto , canto K 4 CH . XIX . 151 Comparisons . None of the foregoing fimiles, as they appear to ...
... , polluto corpore , florem , Nec pueris jucunda manet , nec cara puellis . Catullus . The The imitation of this beautiful fimile by Ariofto , canto K 4 CH . XIX . 151 Comparisons . None of the foregoing fimiles, as they appear to ...
Page 152
... 'd to know , With flow but ftately pace , kept on his courfe : While all tongues cry'd , God fave thee , Bolingbroke . * Dunciad , b . 4. 1. 405 . Duchefs . Duchefs . Alas ! poor Richard , where rides he 152 CH . XIX . Comparisons .
... 'd to know , With flow but ftately pace , kept on his courfe : While all tongues cry'd , God fave thee , Bolingbroke . * Dunciad , b . 4. 1. 405 . Duchefs . Duchefs . Alas ! poor Richard , where rides he 152 CH . XIX . Comparisons .
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