Dionysius Longinus On the Sublimeprincipals of Baltimore College, E. Matchett, printer, 1810 |
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Seite i - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Seite 38 - Twas this deprived my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost: My bosom glow'd; the subtle flame Ran quick through all my vital frame; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
Seite 30 - So likewise the Jewish legislator, — no ordinary person,— having conceived a just idea of the power of God, has nobly expressed it in the beginning of his law. " And God said: What ? ( Let there be light,' and there was light. ( Let the earth be,
Seite 28 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Seite 37 - Blest as th' immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears, and sees thee all the while Softly speak, and sweetly smile. 'Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And rais.d such tumults in my breast ; For while I gaz.d, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost. My bosom glow.d : the subtle flame Ran quick thro...
Seite 125 - The same reflections are in a good measure applicable to sublimity ; particularly, that, like grandeur, it is a species of agreeableness ; that a beautiful object placed high, appearing more agreeable than formerly, produces in the spectator a new emotion, termed...
Seite 38 - Twas this depriv'd my soul of rest, And rais'd such tumults in my breast; For while I gaz'd, in transport tost, My breath was gone, my voice was lost: in. ' My bosom glow'd : the subtle flame Ran quick thro' all my vital frame; O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung; My ears with hollow murmurs rung.
Seite 112 - But it is almost impossible for a low and groveling genius to be guilty of error, since he never endangers himself by soaring on high, or aiming at eminence, but still goes on in the same uniform secure track, whilst its very height and grandeur exposes the Sublime to sudden falls.
Seite 22 - ... pierces no deeper than the ears, can never be the true Sublime. That on the contrary is grand and lofty, which the more we consider, the greater ideas we conceive of it; whose force we cannot possibly withstand; which immediately sinks deep, and makes such impressions on the mind as cannot be easily worn out or effaced.
Seite 129 - Peloponnesians, plunging in after them, made a great slaughter of those who were in the river. The water was immediately discoloured with blood : But the stream, polluted with mud and gore, deterred them not from drinking it greedily, nor many of them from fighting desperately for a draught of it.