Critical Essays [Signed E.B.G.]..cEdward Burnaby Greene
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Author: Edward Burnaby Greene
Page Count: 52 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231490495
Download Link: Critical Essays [Signed E.B.G.].
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 Excerpt: ...Longinus may rather seem too refined; for /w is employed in Homer's Iliad, by no means with a burlesque intention. Mr. Smith's notion of a similar impropriety in the name of Azazel is more liable to censure, as Milton is a name superior to Herodotus, But the error of Longinus arises from. placing words for ideas. The formers though of an inferior stamp, may be significantly expressed, and improve, not debase a reflection superior in itself. Ideas, degrading in their native original construction, rtecessarily efface the dignity of expression. This is apparent in the ensuing representation of hampers, pickles, fruits, falted flesh, and packs of paper, ' from Theopompus, wbere the most wretched example of th Bathos is exhibited; the above fripperies closing a splendid procession of rich vestments, elegant carpets, and the choicest treasures of art and nature. If these indeed were ex, 'j M 2 hausted. hausted, it is not astonHhin, that' thcft of the author was insufficient to' the accoune: -i.-" .. s--... nib It is obvious, that our critic in the clofe of the section falls into an indelicacy of epression, and of thought, in his allusion to the human frame; as if he caught the cbnta gion from the examples he records....... This hotch-potch of Persian luxury may receive improvement from the more refined picture of French courtesy, as drawn byaHvelling Theopompus. This personage arriving late at a considerable town in Flanders was agreeably surprised by a welcome a llnstant, ' from a prince of the blood, and still more agreeably by the embassy of thirty ' domestiques, ' each with two dishes of provifions, on whih the art of cookery had exerted itself tolthe utmost; and with a variety of the richest wines and cordials. This was solid civility'! The parade concl...
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