 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1853 - 542 trang
...of the skies; Am! heaven, as if there wnnted lights above. For tapers made two glaring comets rise. Another species of false sublime is still more faulty than bombast; and that i?, to force elevation by introducing imaginary beings without preserving any propriety in their actions;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 trang
...follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." The description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a verj complete specimen of the descriptions in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 trang
...follow, which are indeed, perhaps, indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." The description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very complete specimen of the descriptions in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1854 - 324 trang
...soon obey; — So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea. 16 To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the sties ; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise.* 17 Whether... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1855 - 498 trang
...V. So. last. I am sorry to observe that the following bombast stuff dropt from the pen of Dryden : To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...made two glaring comets rise. 231. Another species of filse sublime is still more faulty than bombast ; and that is, to force elevation by introducing imaginary... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 trang
...gnilty world, And make the rnin common. 11 BEX Joxson. Lady Jane Gray, Act IT. " To see this fleet npon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the...there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comet* rise." LESSON XLIII. THE BEAUTIFUL. DBTDEN. § 287. BEAUTY does not afford the imagination so... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1859 - 378 trang
...lovers happy ! " But what shall we say to Dryden, who certainly belonged to the world at large ? '; To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...curtains of the skies ; And heaven, as if there wanted light above, For tapers bade two glaring comets rise ! " This is decidedly a finer frenzy than Shakespeare's,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 trang
...soon ohey ; So hear the scaly herdf when Proteus hlows,! And so to pasture follow through the sea. To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ;§ • Th' Iherian] The Spaniard. Orig. ed. ' Sa hear the Kola herd] The Brst edition erroneously... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 trang
...flood rise upon the guilty world, And make the ruin common." BEN JONSON. Lady Jama Gray, Act IV. " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise." LESSON XLIII. THE BEAUTIFUL. Dp.YDEN. § 287. BEAUTY does not afford the imagination so high a degree... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1863 - 470 trang
...flood rise upon the guilty world, And make the ruin common." BEN JOSSON. Lady Jane Gray, Act JV. " To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew...; And heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For topers made two glaring comets rise. " DjtTDBN. LESSON XL 1 1 1. THE BEAUTIFUL. § 287 BEAUTY does... | |
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To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 
