Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation, and on the Original : and Two Dissertations, on Poetical, and Musical, Imitation, Band 1L. Hansard & Son, 1812 |
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... antient authors . A Latin commentator , indeed , may lay any wager , that his author wrote this , or that ; may assert his emendation to be clearer than light itself , and say to his reader , if you are not a blockhead , you will " Each ...
... antient authors . A Latin commentator , indeed , may lay any wager , that his author wrote this , or that ; may assert his emendation to be clearer than light itself , and say to his reader , if you are not a blockhead , you will " Each ...
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... antient writers , are almost always , what may be called sensual descrip- tions . They describe them not as beautiful , but as pleasant ; -as pleasures , not of the imagination , but of the external senses . Of this kind is the ...
... antient writers , are almost always , what may be called sensual descrip- tions . They describe them not as beautiful , but as pleasant ; -as pleasures , not of the imagination , but of the external senses . Of this kind is the ...
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... antient Poets . But it must be confessed , I think , that they scattered these beauties with a sparing hand , in comparison with that rich profusion of picturesque ideas which every reader of Poetry recollects in Shak- speare , Milton ...
... antient Poets . But it must be confessed , I think , that they scattered these beauties with a sparing hand , in comparison with that rich profusion of picturesque ideas which every reader of Poetry recollects in Shak- speare , Milton ...
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... antient Poetry , from a similar defect in the sister art of PAINTING ? -For it appears , I think , from all that has been transmitted to us of the history of that art among the antients , that land- scape - painting either did not exist ...
... antient Poetry , from a similar defect in the sister art of PAINTING ? -For it appears , I think , from all that has been transmitted to us of the history of that art among the antients , that land- scape - painting either did not exist ...
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... antient painting . But , that landscape was not , even in Pliny's time , a common and established branch of painting , may perhaps be presumed from the single circumstance of its not having acquired a name . In the passage just quoted ...
... antient painting . But , that landscape was not , even in Pliny's time , a common and established branch of painting , may perhaps be presumed from the single circumstance of its not having acquired a name . In the passage just quoted ...
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Seite 19 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 22 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Seite 22 - To th' instruments divine respondence meet: The silver sounding instruments did meet With the base murmure of the waters fall : The waters fall with difference discreet, Now soft, now loud, unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low answered to all.
Seite 125 - A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A middle is that which follows something as...
Seite 21 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watchdog's voice that...
Seite 159 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and, in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.
Seite 139 - Nor, again, should the fall of a very bad man from prosperous to adverse fortune be represented : because, though such a subject may be pleasing from its moral tendency, it will produce neither pity nor terror. For our pity is excited by misfortunes undeservedly suffered, and our terror by some resemblance between the sufferer and ourselves.
Seite 122 - For Tragedy is an imitation, not of men, but of an action and of life, and life consists in action, and its end is a mode of action, not a quality. Now character determines men's qualities, but it is by their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
Seite 117 - Epic poetry agrees so far with tragic as it is an imitation of great characters and actions by means of words; but in this it differs, that it makes use of only one kind of metre throughout, and that it is narrative. It also differs in length, for tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine its action within the limits of a single revolution of the sun, or nearly so; but the time of epic action is indefinite.
Seite 148 - Scylla, and in the speech of Menalippe: of ununiform manners in the Iphigenia at Aulis; for there the Iphigenia who supplicates for life has no resemblance to the Iphigenia of the conclusion. In the manners, as in the fable, the poet should always aim either at what is necessary or what is probable ; so that such a character shall appear to speak or act, necessarily or probably, in such a manner, and this event to be the necessary or probable consequence of that. Hence it is evident that the development...