Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious Narratives, with Observations on Some of the Most EminentMundell, 1805 - 174 páginas |
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... attention of mankind , is the history of nations . It is a study , doubt- less , of the highest importance . To the practical statesman , as well as to the votary of political science , it opens ample sources of instruction . But there ...
... attention of mankind , is the history of nations . It is a study , doubt- less , of the highest importance . To the practical statesman , as well as to the votary of political science , it opens ample sources of instruction . But there ...
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... attention of the public . The chief cause has probably been the grect diffusion of literature among the middling , and even the lower classes , of so- ciety . This circumstance , according to all appearance , is likely , not only to ...
... attention of the public . The chief cause has probably been the grect diffusion of literature among the middling , and even the lower classes , of so- ciety . This circumstance , according to all appearance , is likely , not only to ...
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... reader , it cannot be expected that he should be much occupied in following out the train of reasoning . The likelihood is , either that he will pay no attention to the opinions in- culcated , or , if he does , that he.
... reader , it cannot be expected that he should be much occupied in following out the train of reasoning . The likelihood is , either that he will pay no attention to the opinions in- culcated , or , if he does , that he.
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... attention may be paid by the author to what is called the moral of his work , he may depend upon its being little , if at all regarded , by the reader . His mind , while perusing it , will probably be quite otherwise occupied , than in ...
... attention may be paid by the author to what is called the moral of his work , he may depend upon its being little , if at all regarded , by the reader . His mind , while perusing it , will probably be quite otherwise occupied , than in ...
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... attention of the reader to- wards more valuable and lasting qualities . Nor will this deprive the narrative of any great ornament . The ideas of beauty , which description attempts to convey , are always extremely faint and inadequate ...
... attention of the reader to- wards more valuable and lasting qualities . Nor will this deprive the narrative of any great ornament . The ideas of beauty , which description attempts to convey , are always extremely faint and inadequate ...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Vista completa - 1805 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquainted action admiration Æneid affords agreeable altogether amiable amusing appear beauties cern certainly character chiefly chivalry circumstance composition conduct connected considered danger degree discover display disposition doubt effects elegant eminent emotion epic poetry example excels exhibit favour favourite feeling fiction fictitious former frequently genius Gil Blas give Greece habit Heloise hero Homer human nature Iliad impression improvement instruction interesting latter leading less Lord Kaimes Madame de Genlis mankind manners MARIVAUX means merit mind mode of writing moral narrative neral observation opinion passion pathetic powers peculiar perfection perform perhaps poem poetical poetry portunity possess principle probably produced propensity proper qualities quire racter reader real events reason refined regard respect rhymes rience Roger de Coverley romances seems sentiments shew species spectator story superior tain taste Telemachus tend tendency thing thor tion Tom Jones truth turally vice Virgil virtue virtuous writer Xenophon
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Página 163 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 167 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 165 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 168 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 158 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place* I cannot discover, why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate ; but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Página 158 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Página 164 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Página 157 - ... made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain.
Página 155 - But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects.
Página 155 - It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature ; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation : greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness.