The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... original of rhymed verse , all other readers , if left to themselves , would , I dare say , be more delighted with this poet , if , besides his various pause , and measured quantity , he had enriched his numbers , with rhyme . So that ...
... original of rhymed verse , all other readers , if left to themselves , would , I dare say , be more delighted with this poet , if , besides his various pause , and measured quantity , he had enriched his numbers , with rhyme . So that ...
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... original , " and by the truth of the representation ex- poses the ridicule of it . " that comedy receives great presentations of this kind . well subsist without them . And it is certain , advantage from re- Nay , it cannot Yet , it ...
... original , " and by the truth of the representation ex- poses the ridicule of it . " that comedy receives great presentations of this kind . well subsist without them . And it is certain , advantage from re- Nay , it cannot Yet , it ...
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... original , the product of pure chance . Each of its species had sprung out of a chorus- song , which was afterwards incorporated into the legitimate drama , and found essential to its true form . But reason , which saw to h LE RIDICULE ...
... original , the product of pure chance . Each of its species had sprung out of a chorus- song , which was afterwards incorporated into the legitimate drama , and found essential to its true form . But reason , which saw to h LE RIDICULE ...
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... originals ; consequent writers contenting themselves to embellish and perfect , not change , the primary form . The practice of the ancient stage is then of no further au- thority , than as it accords to just criticism . The solemn cast ...
... originals ; consequent writers contenting themselves to embellish and perfect , not change , the primary form . The practice of the ancient stage is then of no further au- thority , than as it accords to just criticism . The solemn cast ...
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... original idea . The admirable scholar of THEOPHRASTUS , who had been tu- tored in the exact study of human life , saw so much of the genuine character of true comedy , that he cleansed it , at once , from the greater part of those ...
... original idea . The admirable scholar of THEOPHRASTUS , who had been tu- tored in the exact study of human life , saw so much of the genuine character of true comedy , that he cleansed it , at once , from the greater part of those ...
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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 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 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 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 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 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.
Page 125 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Page 284 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood.
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 234 - Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients may as well say our faces are not our own because they are like our fathers...