Elements of Criticism, Volume 3A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... . 376 . " This fimile feems to border upon the bur- lefque , An error oppofite to the former , is the introducing a resembling image , fo elevated or ་ or great as to bear no proportion to the principal Ch . XIX . 39 COMPARISONS .
... . 376 . " This fimile feems to border upon the bur- lefque , An error oppofite to the former , is the introducing a resembling image , fo elevated or ་ or great as to bear no proportion to the principal Ch . XIX . 39 COMPARISONS .
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Lord Henry Home Kames. or great as to bear no proportion to the principal fubject . The remarkable dispari- ty betwixt them , being the moft ftriking circumstance , seizes the mind , and never fails to deprefs the principal fubject by ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. or great as to bear no proportion to the principal fubject . The remarkable dispari- ty betwixt them , being the moft ftriking circumstance , seizes the mind , and never fails to deprefs the principal fubject by ...
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... proportion . Where a very high and a very low fubject are compared , the fimile takes on an air of burlefk ; and the fame will be the effect , where the one is imagined to be the other , as in a metaphor , or made to represent the other ...
... proportion . Where a very high and a very low fubject are compared , the fimile takes on an air of burlefk ; and the fame will be the effect , where the one is imagined to be the other , as in a metaphor , or made to represent the other ...
Page 157
... proportion to the figu- rative fenfe , and not foar nor fink much below it . much above it , This rule , as well as the foregoing , is finely illuftrated by Vida : Hæc adeo cum fint , cum fas audere poetis Multa modis multis ; tamen ...
... proportion to the figu- rative fenfe , and not foar nor fink much below it . much above it , This rule , as well as the foregoing , is finely illuftrated by Vida : Hæc adeo cum fint , cum fas audere poetis Multa modis multis ; tamen ...
Page 296
... proportion , colour , and utility , can raife emotions of grandeur , of fweetnefs , of gaiety , melan- choly , wildness , and even of surprise or * See chap . 15- wonder , wonder . In architecture , regularity , or- der , 296 GARDENING ...
... proportion , colour , and utility , can raife emotions of grandeur , of fweetnefs , of gaiety , melan- choly , wildness , and even of surprise or * See chap . 15- wonder , wonder . In architecture , regularity , or- der , 296 GARDENING ...
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