The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... carry with them , are found most delightful to us , but also that FICTION , in the largest sense of the word , is essential to poetry . For its pur- pose is , not to delineate truth simply , but to present it in the most taking forms ...
... carry with them , are found most delightful to us , but also that FICTION , in the largest sense of the word , is essential to poetry . For its pur- pose is , not to delineate truth simply , but to present it in the most taking forms ...
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Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
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... carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed to see it in real life , we enter more warmly into their interests , as forgetting , that we are attentive to a fictitious scene . And ...
... carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed to see it in real life , we enter more warmly into their interests , as forgetting , that we are attentive to a fictitious scene . And ...
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... carrying on designs are only " perplexed apartments , dark entries , dis- " guised habits , and ladders of ropes . The " comic plot is , and must , indeed , be carried " on by deceipt . The Spanish scene does it by deceiving the man ...
... carrying on designs are only " perplexed apartments , dark entries , dis- " guised habits , and ladders of ropes . The " comic plot is , and must , indeed , be carried " on by deceipt . The Spanish scene does it by deceiving the man ...
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... carrying what I say of the superiority of plays of character to plays of intrigue into an extreme ; a mistake , into which some good writers have been unsus- pectingly betrayed by the acknowledged truth of the general principle . It is ...
... carrying what I say of the superiority of plays of character to plays of intrigue into an extreme ; a mistake , into which some good writers have been unsus- pectingly betrayed by the acknowledged truth of the general principle . It is ...
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Page 246 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Page 258 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 245 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Page 274 - May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd...
Page 247 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 292 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 258 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 249 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Page 277 - Than reason above beasts before ; Virtue was thy life's centre, and from thence Did silently and constantly dispense The gentle vigorous influence To all the wide and fair circumference...
Page 284 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.