Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most Eminent for Poetical MeritW. Eyres, 1774 - 286 страница |
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... fancy , all the powers of fiction must be fet at work , and the imagination employed without controul to create new images and discover uncom- mon resemblances and connexions . To pursue our instance taken from the paffion of love ; the ...
... fancy , all the powers of fiction must be fet at work , and the imagination employed without controul to create new images and discover uncom- mon resemblances and connexions . To pursue our instance taken from the paffion of love ; the ...
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... fancy , but the pro- bable adventure of the cottage ; and their fentiments are the unftudied expreffions of paffions and emotions common to all man- kind . NATURE , farther refined , but ftill na- ture , gives the second clafs of pieces ...
... fancy , but the pro- bable adventure of the cottage ; and their fentiments are the unftudied expreffions of paffions and emotions common to all man- kind . NATURE , farther refined , but ftill na- ture , gives the second clafs of pieces ...
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... fancy . Here the fentiments arife from cool reflexion and curious fpeculation , ra- ther than from a prefent emotion . They accordingly require enlivening by ingenious comparison , ftriking contraft , unexpected turns , a climax ...
... fancy . Here the fentiments arife from cool reflexion and curious fpeculation , ra- ther than from a prefent emotion . They accordingly require enlivening by ingenious comparison , ftriking contraft , unexpected turns , a climax ...
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... circumstance which tends to falfify it . It awakens the mind from her dream of fancy , and the " bafelefs fabric of the vifion " inftantly va- nishes C 2 nishes . An ingenious critic has inftanced this fault from PASTORAL SONGS . 35.
... circumstance which tends to falfify it . It awakens the mind from her dream of fancy , and the " bafelefs fabric of the vifion " inftantly va- nishes C 2 nishes . An ingenious critic has inftanced this fault from PASTORAL SONGS . 35.
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... fancy mov'd , Came walking forth that way . And as the paffed by , With a fcornful glance of her eye , What a fhame , quoth fhe , For a fwain muft it be , Like a lazy loon for to lie ? And doft thou nothing heed What Pan our God has ...
... fancy mov'd , Came walking forth that way . And as the paffed by , With a fcornful glance of her eye , What a fhame , quoth fhe , For a fwain muft it be , Like a lazy loon for to lie ? And doft thou nothing heed What Pan our God has ...
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Anacreon antient beauty becauſe befide bleft bluſh bofom breaft CATULLUS CELIA charms CHLOE compariſon compofition cruel dear defire deſcription deſpair eaſe Engliſh epigram expreffion eyes fair falfe fancy fatire feek feem fentiment fhade fhall fhepherd fhould figh fimplicity fince fing firft firſt fmiles foft fome fond fong fong-writing forrows foul ftill ftrain fubject fuch furprize fwain fweet gentle give grace heart itſelf kind know my love laft lefs loft lov'd lover Lyric poetry maid meaſure moſt mufic muft muſt nature ne'er nymph o'er paffion paftoral pain PHYLLIS pieces pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poetical poetry praiſe prefent purpoſe racter reft rofe Sappho ſcene ſhall ſhe ſmile SOAME JENYNS ſpeak ſpread ſpring ſtay ſtill taſte tears tell tender thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand thro tivation Twas uſed vows whofe whoſe wiſh youth
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