Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the AuthorB. Dod, 1752 - 180 páginas |
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... strike fuch an awe upon it in its tender and infant state , as will stick for ever after , and check its generous fallies . No one will write or speak well in such a situation , unless on fubjects of meer amusement , and which cannot ...
... strike fuch an awe upon it in its tender and infant state , as will stick for ever after , and check its generous fallies . No one will write or speak well in such a situation , unless on fubjects of meer amusement , and which cannot ...
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... strikes the " minds of its hearers . It is like lightning ( fays our author ) " because you can no more look upon this , when present , " than you can upon the flash of that . Befides , the ftruc- " ture of the words in the clofe of the ...
... strikes the " minds of its hearers . It is like lightning ( fays our author ) " because you can no more look upon this , when present , " than you can upon the flash of that . Befides , the ftruc- " ture of the words in the clofe of the ...
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... trusft light , the noble and generous resentment of Brutus , and the hafty choler and as hafty repentance of Caffius . After the recon- ciliation , out words challenges admiration , and strikes by its grandeur 28 Sect . 9 . LONGINUS.
... trusft light , the noble and generous resentment of Brutus , and the hafty choler and as hafty repentance of Caffius . After the recon- ciliation , out words challenges admiration , and strikes by its grandeur 28 Sect . 9 . LONGINUS.
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... strikes by its grandeur . Such is ( 1 ) the Silence of Ajax in the Odyffey , which is undoubtedly noble , and far above expreffion . To arrive at excellence like this , we muft needs ciliation , in the beginning of the next scene ...
... strikes by its grandeur . Such is ( 1 ) the Silence of Ajax in the Odyffey , which is undoubtedly noble , and far above expreffion . To arrive at excellence like this , we muft needs ciliation , in the beginning of the next scene ...
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... strike at the imagination ; in age , they speak more to our reason . For tho ' the paffions are the fame in their nature , yet , at diffe- rent ages , they differ in degree . Love , for inftance , is a violent , hot , and impetuous ...
... strike at the imagination ; in age , they speak more to our reason . For tho ' the paffions are the fame in their nature , yet , at diffe- rent ages , they differ in degree . Love , for inftance , is a violent , hot , and impetuous ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 153 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 78 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Página 74 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Página 114 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Página 156 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 36 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Página 56 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble.
Página 45 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 57 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Página 138 - May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.