 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - 1763 - 382 σελίδες
...At laft, into their inmoft chambers creep, And filent lie difiblv'd in balmy fleep. ing ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may be yery well accounted for ; laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts... | |
 | Virgil - 1763 - 374 σελίδες
...filent lie diflblv'd in balmy fleep. i fpoil ; eir home, ") come, 225 > owfy hum. J ing ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, as we lee in the Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may be very... | |
 | James Beattie - 1776 - 582 σελίδες
...ftyle without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dig*' nity, as we fee in the Georgics ; but *' throw the former into ridicule, as in. the " Lutrin. 1 think this may very well he ac*' counted for: laughter implies cenfure; *' inanimate and irrational... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 300 σελίδες
...very reafon, to have conf:dered it with a view to the Iliad. How dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....this may very well be accounted for: laughter implies cenlure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts 'of cenfure; therefore they may be elevated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 308 σελίδες
...latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw th« former into ridicule, as in the Lutrtn. I think this may very well be accounted for: laughter...cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts of cenfure ; therefore they may be elevated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 312 σελίδες
...obfervation, That the low aftions of life cannot beputinto a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may very well be accounted... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 304 σελίδες
...things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think thif may very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 902 σελίδες
...observation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...inanimate and irrational beings are not objects of ceufurc ; therefore they may be eleyated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follow : but when rational... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1104 σελίδες
...obfervation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...the Georgics : but throw the former into ridicule, ss in the JUurin. I think this may very well be accounted for : laughter implies c'enfure ; inanimate... | |
 | Homer - 1796 - 350 σελίδες
...ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raifc the latter into dignity > as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure j inanimate and irrational beings arc not objects of cenfure; therefore thefe may btf elevated as much... | |
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Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies... 
