Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original : and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation, Band 2

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Seite 429 - 3 Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs. Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents, The armourers, accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation *. Henry V. Act
Seite 44 - A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to " build stately SOONER, than to garden finely ; as " if gardening were the greater perfection.
Seite 453 - The character of Lothario seems to have " been expanded by Richardson into Lovelace; " but he has excelled his original in the moral " effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety " which cannot be hated, and bravery which " cannot be despised, retains too much of the " spectator's kindness. It was in the power of " Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem
Seite 28 - Tragedy, as it was anciently composed, hath " been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most " profitable of all other Poems: therefore said " by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, " and fear or terror, to purge the mind of those " and such like passions; that is, to temper and " reduce them to Just measure, with a kind of " delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those
Seite 60 - that way goes the game. Now I perceive that she hath made compare Between our statures; she hath urged her height, And with her personage, her tall personage, Her
Seite 499 - Collibus, et campis ut haberent, atque olearum Caerula distinguens inter plaga currere posset Per tumulos, et convalles, camposque profusa : Ut nunc esse vides vario distincta lepore Omnia, quae pomis intersita dulcibus ornant, Arbustisque tenent felicibus obsita circum.
Seite 453 - There is always danger, lest wickedness, conjoined " with abilities, should steal upon esteem, though it " misses of approbation; but the character of logo is so " conducted, that he is, from the first scene to the last, " hated and despised.
Seite 238 - " that on mimicking the looks and " gestures of angry, or placid, or frighted, or " daring men, I have involuntarily found my mind " turned to that passion whose appearance I
Seite 421 - nothing about them, nothing in the air of their " actions, or their attitudes, or the style and cast " of their very limbs or features, that puts one " in mind of their belonging to our own species*.
Seite 333 - wide : The dripping rock, the mountain's misty top, Swell on the sight, and brighten with the dawn; Blue, thro' the dusk, the smoking currents shine.

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