Longinus on the sublime, tr. by T.R.R. Stebbing |
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... becomes bom- bast , with its " wreaths of flame , " " outspueing to the sky , " its " piping Boreas , " and the rest . The commencement of this chapter is wanting in the original . The poetical fragment is supposed to come from a lost ...
... becomes bom- bast , with its " wreaths of flame , " " outspueing to the sky , " its " piping Boreas , " and the rest . The commencement of this chapter is wanting in the original . The poetical fragment is supposed to come from a lost ...
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... become the source and cause of failure . It is much the same with antithesis , hyperbole , and the use of plurals . These have their dan- gers , as I propose to shew hereafter . For the present we must seek for means and lay down rules ...
... become the source and cause of failure . It is much the same with antithesis , hyperbole , and the use of plurals . These have their dan- gers , as I propose to shew hereafter . For the present we must seek for means and lay down rules ...
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... become garrulous . For that he wrote this work after the other is clear for many reasons ; but especially from his interspersing it with remnants of the calamities in the Iliad , a kind of episodes of the Trojan war , and from his ...
... become garrulous . For that he wrote this work after the other is clear for many reasons ; but especially from his interspersing it with remnants of the calamities in the Iliad , a kind of episodes of the Trojan war , and from his ...
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... becomes impregnated with the power of the divinity , and by faculty of inspiration promulges oracles . So , from the mighty genius of the ancients , there flow into the souls of their votaries , as if from sacred caverns , certain ef ...
... becomes impregnated with the power of the divinity , and by faculty of inspiration promulges oracles . So , from the mighty genius of the ancients , there flow into the souls of their votaries , as if from sacred caverns , certain ef ...
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... when the thousand threads of allusion and asso- ciation have been sundered , must become in succession unmeaning , despised , and forgotten . * The reading here is somewhat uncertain . contention , and as it were with the weapons of 53.
... when the thousand threads of allusion and asso- ciation have been sundered , must become in succession unmeaning , despised , and forgotten . * The reading here is somewhat uncertain . contention , and as it were with the weapons of 53.
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Addison admiration Æneid Æschylus Ajax Amphicrates amplification asyndeton BACCHYLIDES beauty belle marquise blemishes bombastic Cæcilius called charm Cleitarchus colloquial combination of metaphors comparison composition conceit criticism Demosthenes disciple of Homer eloquence emotion Eupolis Euripides Eurylochus example excellences expression eyes faults feelings Figures of Rhetoric flame genius Gibbon gods grand grandeur Greek harmony hearer heaven Herodotus Hesiod historic present Homer honour hyperbaton hyperbole Hypereides Iliad imagery imagination impeach inspiration instances of asyndeton Isocrates language lively lofty Longinus Lord Lysias magnificence majesty mean Milton mourir nature never nigh-near noble Odyssey orator passage passion peril periphrasis Philistus phrenzy Plato poet poetry polyptoton praise proper reason Reiske rhetorical figures rhetorical oath rhetorical plural rhetorical singular Sappho second person sentence shew Simile Sophocles soul speak speech spirit Stesichorus style sublimity thee Theopompus things thou thought thousand Thucydides Timæus transition translation treatise utterance words writing Xenophon
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Seite 106 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossne.ss.
Seite 60 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Seite 118 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 78 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Seite 122 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious shew ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Seite 119 - For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty ; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power...
Seite 171 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Seite 83 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and...
Seite 123 - ... becomes all men, and with a confidence in him which was justified even in its extravagance by his superior abilities, had never in any instance presumed upon any opinion of their own. Deprived of his guiding influence, they were whirled about, the sport of every gust, and easily driven into any port ; and as those who joined with them in manning the vessel were the most directly opposite to his opinions, measures, and character, and far the most artful and...
Seite 111 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes: Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm: Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.