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... , makes a capital figure ; and the fympathifing fpectator feels in himself the fame dignity . Sympathetic diftrefs at * See the Introduction . the the fame time never is mean : on the con- 32 DIGNITY AND MEANNESS . Ch . XI .
... , makes a capital figure ; and the fympathifing fpectator feels in himself the fame dignity . Sympathetic diftrefs at * See the Introduction . the the fame time never is mean : on the con- 32 DIGNITY AND MEANNESS . Ch . XI .
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Lord Henry Home Kames. the fame time never is mean : on the con- trary , it is agreeable to the nature of a focial being , and has the general approbation . The rank that love poffeffes in this scale , depends in a great measure on its ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. the fame time never is mean : on the con- trary , it is agreeable to the nature of a focial being , and has the general approbation . The rank that love poffeffes in this scale , depends in a great measure on its ...
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... never efteemed mean or grovel- ing . The pleasure arifing from wit , hu- mour , ridicule , or from what is fimply lu- dicrous , is useful , by relaxing the mind after the fatigue of more manly occupation . But the mind , when it ...
... never efteemed mean or grovel- ing . The pleasure arifing from wit , hu- mour , ridicule , or from what is fimply lu- dicrous , is useful , by relaxing the mind after the fatigue of more manly occupation . But the mind , when it ...
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... , and affecting to confider it as of the utmost dignity and importance ; and though ridicule is the poet's aim , he himself carries * Scarron . + Taffoni . VOL . II . F all all along a grave face , and never once be- Ch.XII . 41 RIDICULE .
... , and affecting to confider it as of the utmost dignity and importance ; and though ridicule is the poet's aim , he himself carries * Scarron . + Taffoni . VOL . II . F all all along a grave face , and never once be- Ch.XII . 41 RIDICULE .
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... never can be done effectually where the images are formed with labour or difficulty . For these reasons , I cannot avoid condemning the Batrachomuo- machia faid to be the compofition of Homer . It machia 42 Ch . XII , RIDICULE . all ...
... never can be done effectually where the images are formed with labour or difficulty . For these reasons , I cannot avoid condemning the Batrachomuo- machia faid to be the compofition of Homer . It machia 42 Ch . XII , RIDICULE . all ...
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Page 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...