Sketches of Manners, Scenery, &c. in the French Provinces, Switzerland, and Italy: With An Essay on French LiteratureLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 519 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 511 - Le génie poétique des Anglais ressemble, jusqu'à présent, à un arbre touffu planté par la nature, jetant au hasard mille rameaux, et croissant inégalement et avec force ; il meurt, si vous voulez forcer sa nature, et le tailler en arbre des jardins de Marly.
الصفحة 461 - In the meantime we may take notice that where the poet ought to have preserved the character as it was delivered to us by antiquity, when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man, of the Amazonian strain, a jolly huntsman, and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love, he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry, sent him to travel from Athens to Paris, taught him to make love, and transformed the Hippolytus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolyte.
الصفحة 43 - Land of our fathers ! precious unto me Since the first joys of thinking infancy ; When of thy gallant chivalry I read, And hugged the volume on my sleepless bed ! O England ! dearer far than life is dear, If I forget thy prowess, never more Be thy ungrateful son allowed to hear Thy green leaves rustle, or thy torrents roar.
الصفحة 463 - And round each soft gale Syrian odours throws. But Bacchus, waving in his hand The torch that from his hallow'd wand Flames high, his roving Bacchae leads, And, shouting as he nimbly treads, Flings to the wanton wind his streaming hair, And wakes the rapture-breathing air. Haste, ye...
الصفحة 490 - ... thief, he sets fire to the house he has robbed, in the hope of preventing the detection of his guilt. There is something in Voltaire's tragedies which seems to show that his genius was embarrassed by the cramp and confinement of the French literary laws ; of which indeed he himself complains : — " Je regrettais cette heureuse liberte que vous avez d'ecrire vos tragedies en vers non rimes...
الصفحة 310 - Parva sed apta mihi, sed nulli obnoxia, sed non Sordida, parta meo sed tamen aere domus.
الصفحة 298 - He that provideth not for his own, especially for those of his own House, hath denied the Faith, and is worse than an Infidel.
الصفحة 475 - L'éclat de ses habits fait honte à l'œil du jour; Sans cela , fît-on mordre aux géants la poussière, II est bien malaisé de rien faire en amour. En peu de temps Mars emporta la dame. Il la gagna peut-être en lui contant sa flamme: Peut-être conta-t-il ses sièges, ses combats , Parla de contrescarpe, et cent autres merveilles Que les femmes n'entendent pas, Et dont pourtant les mots sont doux à leurs oreilles.
الصفحة 495 - There were likewise inferior prizes of flowers made in silver. In the mean time the conquerors were crowned with natural chaplets of their own respective flowers. During the ceremony, degrees were also conferred. He who had won a prize three times was created a doctor en gaye Science, the name of the poetry of the Provencal Trouhadours.
الصفحة 512 - 'lio it would seem have given an immutable shape to their tragic stage. Our chief object however is an examination of the system of tragic art, practically followed by these poets, and by them partly, but by the French critics universally, considered as alone entitled to any authority, and every deviation from it viewed as a sin against good taste.