 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1762 - 464 pages
...in human affairs. I muft however obferve, that Homer's deities do no honour to his poems. Fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have...inflame the imagination for a moment, but will not be relimed by any perfon of a correct tafte. Let me add, that of whatever ufe fuch fictions may be to... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...no honour to his poems : fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have a good effedt ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but will not be relilhed by any perfon of a corredl tafte. Let me add, that of whatever ufe fuch fidtions may be to... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...no honour to his poems : lictiom; that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have a good effect; they may inflame the imagination .for a moment, but...not be relifhed by any perfon of a correct tafte. They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials... | |
 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...honour to his " poems. Fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature feldom have a " good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but " will not be relimed by any perfon of a correct tafte. They may be of " fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ;... | |
 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1782 - 312 pages
...honour to his *' poems. Fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature feldom have a " good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but...not be relifhed by any perfon of a correct tafte. They may be of " fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has " much finer materials... | |
 | William Hayley - English poetry - 1785 - 310 pages
...do no honour to his poems. Fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature feldom have a good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but...not be relifhed by any perfon of a correct tafte. They may be of fome ule to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...in human affairs. I muft however obferve, that Homer's deities do no honour to his poems : lict ions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have...moment, but will not be relifhed by any perfon of a con-ect tafte. They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...do no honour to his poems; fictions that trangrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have a good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but will not be relilbed by any pcrfon of a correft tafte. They may be of fome ufe to the lower Tank of writers; but... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1807 - 588 pages
...no honour to his poems : fictions that tranfgrefs the bounds of nature, feldom have a good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but...not be relifhed by any perfon of a correct tafte. They may be of fome ufc to the lower rank of writers; but an author of genius has much finer materials... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...no honour to his poems : fictions that transgress the bounds of nature, seldom have a good effect ; they may inflame the imagination for a moment, but will not be relished by any person of a correct taste. They may be of some use to the lower rank of writers ; but... | |
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They may be of fome ufe to the lower rank of writers ; but an author of genius has much finer materials of Nature's production, for elevating his fubject, and making it interefting. 
