Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most eminent prose writers, Том 21812 |
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... perfect delineation of the manners of his age , he joined to his knowledge of the world such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained , he sufficiently ...
... perfect delineation of the manners of his age , he joined to his knowledge of the world such application to books , that he will stand for ever in the first rank of literary heroes . How this proficiency was obtained , he sufficiently ...
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Elegant extracts. few words , the image of what he judged to be a perfect scholar ; and certainly it is a very amiable one : " For my part , ' says he , ' I like a child who is encouraged by commendation , is animated by a sense of glory ...
Elegant extracts. few words , the image of what he judged to be a perfect scholar ; and certainly it is a very amiable one : " For my part , ' says he , ' I like a child who is encouraged by commendation , is animated by a sense of glory ...
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... perfect remembrance of all they read , at least at the power of retaining the great- est and most essential part of it . If they would but comply with this method for a little while , they would soon be brought to own , that not re ...
... perfect remembrance of all they read , at least at the power of retaining the great- est and most essential part of it . If they would but comply with this method for a little while , they would soon be brought to own , that not re ...
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... perfect one , comprises the whole syntax in ten lines : for this reason ; ' be- cause our language has so little inflexion , that its construction neither requires nor admits many rules . ' In truth , the easier any subject is in its ...
... perfect one , comprises the whole syntax in ten lines : for this reason ; ' be- cause our language has so little inflexion , that its construction neither requires nor admits many rules . ' In truth , the easier any subject is in its ...
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... perfect centaur . His honest friend knew nothing of centaurs , but being fond of riding , was hardly ever off his horse . Another extreme remains , the reverse of the too sublime , and that is , the transferring from sub- jects too ...
... perfect centaur . His honest friend knew nothing of centaurs , but being fond of riding , was hardly ever off his horse . Another extreme remains , the reverse of the too sublime , and that is , the transferring from sub- jects too ...
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Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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,...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.