 | William Edward Mead, Wilbur Fisk Gordy - Composition - 1900 - 408 pages
...Bolingbroke's repeated observations, that he had now become a retired philosopher, are transparent enough." 2 " The language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect." 3 "We may see how their pride, or presumption, or tyranny... | |
 | English language - 1900 - 570 pages
...James the Second. Each of these words imply some pursuit or object relinquished. — Blair's Lectures. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both pt-rspicuous and sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 218 pages
...to take delight in simple things, and to trust ourselves to our own instincts LOWELL. PARADISE LOST It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities is wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime. In pror 10 portion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - Authorship - 1908 - 328 pages
...James the Second. Each of these words imply some pursuit or object relinquished. — Blair's Lectures. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. — Addison, Spectator. Neither of them are remarkable for... | |
 | Abraham Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - English language - 1912 - 410 pages
...busy human hive in the light of a great artistic and philosophic intellect. (4) Addison on Milton. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities is wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...particular in any of my opinions and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem...sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary qualification ;... | |
 | Walter James Graham - English essays - 1928 - 440 pages
...particular in any of my opinions, and incline to those who judge the most advantageously of the author. It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime. 2 In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. Perspicuity... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...that underlies his criticism.6' In his paper on Milton's language, he argues (following Aristotle) that 'the Language of an Heroic Poem should be both Perspicuous and Sublime'. In order to be sublime, he writes, 'it ought to deviate from the common Forms and ordinary Phrases of... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - English poetry - 1995 - 292 pages
...particular in any of my Opinions, and encline to those who judge the most advantagiously of the Author. It is requisite that the Language of an Heroic Poem...Sublime. In Proportion as either of these two Qualities are wanting, the Language is imperfect. Perspicuity is the first and most necessary Qualification;... | |
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It is requisite that the language of an heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect. 
