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 159
... reason that fhall be mentioned . Thus breathing death , in terrible array , The clofe compacted legions urg'd their way Fierce they drove on , impatient to deftroy ; Troy charg'd the first , and Hector first of Troy . As from fome ...
... reason that fhall be mentioned . Thus breathing death , in terrible array , The clofe compacted legions urg'd their way Fierce they drove on , impatient to deftroy ; Troy charg'd the first , and Hector first of Troy . As from fome ...
Page 208
... reason the following hyperboles must be condemned as natural : K. Rich . Aumerle , thou weep't my tender - hearted coufin ! We'll make foul weather with defpifed tears : Our fighs , and they , fhall lodge the fummer - corn , And make a ...
... reason the following hyperboles must be condemned as natural : K. Rich . Aumerle , thou weep't my tender - hearted coufin ! We'll make foul weather with defpifed tears : Our fighs , and they , fhall lodge the fummer - corn , And make a ...
Page 225
... reason , a metaphor drawn out to any length , in- ftead of illuftrating or enlivening the principal fub- ject , becomes difagreeable by overftraining the mind . Here Cowley is extremely licentious : take the fol- lowing inflance . Great ...
... reason , a metaphor drawn out to any length , in- ftead of illuftrating or enlivening the principal fub- ject , becomes difagreeable by overftraining the mind . Here Cowley is extremely licentious : take the fol- lowing inflance . Great ...
Page 233
... reason , the following fpeech of Macbeth is faulty . Methought I heard a voice cry fleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder fleep ; the innocent fleep ; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd fleeve of Care , The birth of each day's life , fore ...
... reason , the following fpeech of Macbeth is faulty . Methought I heard a voice cry fleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder fleep ; the innocent fleep ; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd fleeve of Care , The birth of each day's life , fore ...
Page 258
... reason ftill more weighty : bold thoughts and figures . are never relifhed till the mind be heated and , thoroughly engaged , which is not the reader's cafe at the commencement . Homer introduces not a fingle fimile in the first book of ...
... reason ftill more weighty : bold thoughts and figures . are never relifhed till the mind be heated and , thoroughly engaged , which is not the reader's cafe at the commencement . Homer introduces not a fingle fimile in the first book of ...
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