Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Volumen21812 |
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... imagination ( the property of youth ) may make folly look pleasing , and lend a beauty to objects , which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun - beams may paint a cloud , and diversify it with beautiful stains of light , however ...
... imagination ( the property of youth ) may make folly look pleasing , and lend a beauty to objects , which have none inherent in them ; just as the sun - beams may paint a cloud , and diversify it with beautiful stains of light , however ...
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... imagination , it might be expected that a just taste , a sense of decency and propriety , would make them more attended to than we find they are . We acknowledge that they have been abused , and have occasioned the grossest superstition ...
... imagination , it might be expected that a just taste , a sense of decency and propriety , would make them more attended to than we find they are . We acknowledge that they have been abused , and have occasioned the grossest superstition ...
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... imaginations , possessed of some natural advantages of voice and manner . But as no art can ever become very beneficial to mankind , un- less it be under the direction of genius and good sense , it has too often happened , that the art ...
... imaginations , possessed of some natural advantages of voice and manner . But as no art can ever become very beneficial to mankind , un- less it be under the direction of genius and good sense , it has too often happened , that the art ...
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... imagination . From the same source may be derived those di- visions and animosities which break the union both of public and private societies , and turn the peace and harmony of human intercourse into dis- sonance and contention . For ...
... imagination . From the same source may be derived those di- visions and animosities which break the union both of public and private societies , and turn the peace and harmony of human intercourse into dis- sonance and contention . For ...
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... imagination create , are known by their proper names . Nay , language has been carried so far , as to be made an instru- ment of the most refined luxury . Not resting in mere perspicuity , we require ornament also ; not satisfied with ...
... imagination create , are known by their proper names . Nay , language has been carried so far , as to be made an instru- ment of the most refined luxury . Not resting in mere perspicuity , we require ornament also ; not satisfied with ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 112 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 245 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, "is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Página 245 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place.
Página 243 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
Página 112 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form, and pressure.
Página 112 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 112 - Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one, must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. Oh, there be players, that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted, and bellowed, that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men,...
Página 111 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 252 - You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height.
Página 111 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.