"...he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human language"
Heres the context.
"This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour...
What does the word "prescriptive" mean, as used in 18th century?
What does the word "prescriptive" mean, as used in 18th century? (if there is any difference from how its used today that is)
the context is "The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the...
seriously one subject that i found completely confusing (and still do) is p-chem.. totally counterintuitive imo... as the course dragged on i had to stop myself from trying to understand it and just start using these crazy mnemonics , in order to pass.
Or more precisely from advent of the gramaphone and "talkies" until today. I am geussing it is 4 beats per measure, but why? I am asking with respect to how iambic pentameter could have become predominant back in the day, if poetic meter is ultimately derived from musical time, as that would...
zoobyshoe coincidentally I've been reading johnsons preface, ..i just jumped ahead to see notes on msnd but he doesn't notate that play for some reason. But he doees say in preface that shakespeares sources were common knowledge in his day..also that shakespeare's plays have a decided lack of...
ok thanks for the translation..im still going through it, idk why but it confused me. Never heard of "discretion is better part of valour" , but after plugging into WIKIquote I noticed its first used in Henry IV: "The better part of valour is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my...
Yes I figured that the fox is crafty and the swan either wise and/or silly, but what does WS mean plainly, in each line, in todays english? its totally confusing imo. thanks for the reply.
Its from midsummer nights dream, act 5 scene 1. Quince is giving his perfomamnce as a lion, and he has just assured the audience that he isn't really a lion, he's just acting one out.
So what i don't understand is the analogies that are used --fox, goose, valour, wisdom etc --- and how they all...
danger, i am interested in the back story to six million dollar man. Seeing as he's one of your fav authors and youve read the book, where, iyo, does he come up short with respect to cyborg technology, and where is he pretty accurate for the time period he was writing? The main implaisibilty...
thats a stroke of genius to dedicate 3 pages to cacti rather than cyborg technology, which wouldve seemed dated in less than 10 years... but idk maybe that's a writers trick.
What 20th/21st century writer would you say wrote in exact opposite style as hemingway. Hemingway wrote using the "iceberg theory" of writing: You write economically as possible, yet each sentence must convey as much meaning by means of intimation and allowing the reader to fill in the blanks...
chance favors the well-prepared that's true, nice point... Negative thinker will talk himself out of the game, and his chance of success is therefore yup, zero..