The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... persons , who have suffered themselves to be too easily prejudiced by their admiration of the Greek and Latin languages , and still more , perhaps , by the prevailing notion of the monkish or gothic original of rhymed verse , all other ...
... persons , who have suffered themselves to be too easily prejudiced by their admiration of the Greek and Latin languages , and still more , perhaps , by the prevailing notion of the monkish or gothic original of rhymed verse , all other ...
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... persons in the drama must , also , be signified , that the ac- tion , which in many cases will be determined . by them , may appear to be carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed ...
... persons in the drama must , also , be signified , that the ac- tion , which in many cases will be determined . by them , may appear to be carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed ...
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... persons , whose actions Tragedy would exhibit to us , must be of principal rank and dignity . For the ac- tions of these are , both in themselves and in their consequences , most fitted to excite pas- sion . The distresses of private ...
... persons , whose actions Tragedy would exhibit to us , must be of principal rank and dignity . For the ac- tions of these are , both in themselves and in their consequences , most fitted to excite pas- sion . The distresses of private ...
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... persons of great and public authority , influence by their ill - fortune the whole community , to which they belong . The attention is rouzed , and all our faculties take an alarm , at the ap- prehension of such extensive and important ...
... persons of great and public authority , influence by their ill - fortune the whole community , to which they belong . The attention is rouzed , and all our faculties take an alarm , at the ap- prehension of such extensive and important ...
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... persons ; and so have well nigh an- nihilated the noblest of the two dramas amongst us . On the whole it appears , that as the proper object of tragedy is action , so it is important action , and therefore more espe- cially the action ...
... persons ; and so have well nigh an- nihilated the noblest of the two dramas amongst us . On the whole it appears , that as the proper object of tragedy is action , so it is important action , and therefore more espe- cially the action ...
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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.