| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 páginas
...likewife be objected, that it is drawn from Mythology, though fuch as may be more eafily affimilated to real life. Idalia's -velvet-green has fomething...metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art ; an epithet of*metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature. Gray is too fond of words arbitrarily compounded. Many-twinkling... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1782 - 588 páginas
...likewife be objected, that it is drawn from Mythology, though fuch as may be more eafily affirailaced to real life. Idalia's velvet-green has fomething...Nature ennobles Art : an epithet or metaphor drawn from Ait degrades Nature. Gray is too fond of words arbitrarily compounded. Many-t<vainkling was formerly... | |
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 páginas
...from Mythology, though fuch as may be more eafily afumilated to real life. [Julia's I'rli-tf green has fomething of cant. An epithet or metaphor drawn...Nature ennobles Art : an epithet or metaphor drawn from Arc degrades Nature. Gray is too fond of words arbitrarily compounded. Many-twinkling was formerly... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 páginas
...likewife be objected, that it is drawn from Mythology, though fuch as may be more eafily affimilated to real life. Idalia's velvet-green has fomething of cant. An epithet or metaphor drav/n from Nature ennobles Art ; an epithet or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature. Gray is too... | |
| 1794 - 542 páginas
...particular his prince of Abyflinia. In our third ftanza our critic apprehends that " fiiaiia's velvet green has fomething of cant : an epithet or metaphor drawn from nature, ennobles art : one drawn from art, degrades nature." — I cannot acquiefce in this peremptory affertion. I mould... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...they occur, draw that attention on themselves, which'they should convey to things. Life of Dryden. An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature, ennobles...epithet or metaphor drawn from art, degrades nature. Life of Gray. There is a mode of stvle for which the masters of oratory have not as yet found a name... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 páginas
...though such as may be more easily assimilated ¡o real life. Idalia's " velvet green" has some« thing of cant. An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature...metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature. Gray is too loud of words arbitrarily compounded. " Many-twinkling" was formerly censured as not analogical; we... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 628 páginas
...though such as may be more easily assimilated to real life. Idalia's " velvet green" has something of cant. .An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature ennobles Art : an epithet or metaphor draw^i from Art degrades Nature. Gray is too fond of words arbitrarily compounded. " Many-twinkling"... | |
| 1817 - 536 páginas
...and dogmas) will not sustain the ttricturt. This dogmatist opines and pronounces, "that an ppithet drawn ' from nature, ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art, degrade* nature. It is not so; amongst a variety of instances that might be quoted, to prove the fallacy... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 410 páginas
...though such as may be more easily assimilated to real life. Idalia's " velvet green" has something of cant. An epithet or metaphor drawn from Nature...or metaphor drawn from Art degrades Nature. Gray is top fond of words arbitrarily compounded. " Manytwinkling" was formerly censured as not analogical;... | |
| |