Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Felix E. SchellingGinn, 1892 - 166 pages |
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... fable , 83 14-87 19 . The fable ( uvos ) defined , 83 18–30 . Its magnitude varies with the nature of the work , 83 30-84 10 . Unity of action differs in dramatic and epic form , 84 11–25 . The measure of the fable must not be too great ...
... fable , 83 14-87 19 . The fable ( uvos ) defined , 83 18–30 . Its magnitude varies with the nature of the work , 83 30-84 10 . Unity of action differs in dramatic and epic form , 84 11–25 . The measure of the fable must not be too great ...
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... fable , a crowned lion . It is dangerous offending such a one , who , being angry , knows not how to forgive ; that 15 cares not to do anything for maintaining or enlarging of empire ; kills not men or subjects , but destroyeth whole ...
... fable , a crowned lion . It is dangerous offending such a one , who , being angry , knows not how to forgive ; that 15 cares not to do anything for maintaining or enlarging of empire ; kills not men or subjects , but destroyeth whole ...
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... fable the sticking in of sentences , as ours do the forcing 5 in of jests . Fals [ a ] querel [ a ] fugiend [ a ] .— We should not pro- tect our sloth with the patronage of difficulty . It is a false quarrel against Nature , that she ...
... fable the sticking in of sentences , as ours do the forcing 5 in of jests . Fals [ a ] querel [ a ] fugiend [ a ] .— We should not pro- tect our sloth with the patronage of difficulty . It is a false quarrel against Nature , that she ...
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... fable . Our style should be like a skein of silk , to be carried and found by the right thread , not ravelled and perplexed : then all is a 15 knot , a heap . There are words that do as much raise a style as others can depress it ...
... fable . Our style should be like a skein of silk , to be carried and found by the right thread , not ravelled and perplexed : then all is a 15 knot , a heap . There are words that do as much raise a style as others can depress it ...
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... fable that is formed . It is perfect , perhaps not for a court or king's palace , which requires a greater ground , but for the structure we would raise ; so the space of the action may not prove large enough for the epic fable , 10 yet ...
... fable that is formed . It is perfect , perhaps not for a court or king's palace , which requires a greater ground , but for the structure we would raise ; so the space of the action may not prove large enough for the epic fable , 10 yet ...
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Page 23 - Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 30 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page 23 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 111 - That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it : This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.
Page 23 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory — on this side idolatry — as much as any). He was (indeed) honest, and of an open, and free nature: had an excellent fancy; brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 115 - That though I lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind.
Page 54 - In style, to consider what ought to be written, and after what manner, he must first think and excogitate his matter, then choose his words, and examine the weight of either. Then take care, in placing and ranking both matter and words, that the composition be comely; and to do this with diligence and often. No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate; seek the best, and be not glad of the forward conceits or first words that offer themselves to us, but judge of what we...
Page 152 - Yet it is by no means essential that a poet should accommodate his language to this traditional form, so that the harmony, which is its spirit, be observed. The practice is indeed convenient and popular, and to be preferred, especially in such composition as includes much action : but every great poet must inevitably innovate upon the example of his predecessors in the exact structure of his peculiar versification.
Page 99 - When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly fair, With eyes so bright and with that awful air, I thought my heart which durst so high aspire As bold, as his who snatched celestial fire. But soon as e'er the beauteous idiot spoke, Forth from her coral lips such folly broke : Like balm the trickling nonsense heal'd my wound, And what her eyes enthralled, her tongue unbound.
Page 31 - But his learned and able, though unfortunate, successor is he who hath filled up all numbers, and performed that in our tongue which may be compared, or preferred, either to insolent Greece or haughty Rome.