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Ceremony Of A Gentoo Woman
and she was not , I am positive , either intoxicated or stupified . —« From several circumstances , I thought ihe Bramins exulted in this hellish sacrifice , and did not seem at all displeased that Europeans should be witnesses of it .
Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS .
No . V . f - . . i ¦ i , ¦¦ I , ¦ ¦ i i a Continued from p . ij [ . POETRY . POETRY is a mixture of Painting , Musicand Eloquence .
, As Eloquence , it speaks , it proves , it relates . As Music , it lias a regulated course , tones and cadences , whose combination form a kind of concert . As Painting , it draws out objects , and lays on colours , it expresses every beauty in nature ; in a word , it makes use both of the colours and the pencil . It employs concords and liarmony , it shews truth , and knows how to make truth lovely .
Poetry takes in all kinds of subjects : it records every shining action in history : it enters into the regions of . philosophy : it flies into the skies , to admire the courses of the heavenly bodies : it darts into the sea , and into the entrails of the earth , there to examine the . secrets of nature : it penetrates even into the mansions of the dead , to see the rewards ofthe good , and the tortures ofthe bad : in short ,
it takes in the whole universe . If this worid be not sufficient , it creates new ones , which it embellishes with enchanted dwellings , and peoples with a thousand different sorts of inhabitants . There it creates beings after its own fancy : it produces nothing but what is perfect : it improves every production of nature : it is a kiud of mag ic : it flings illusion into the eyes , into the imagination , into the mind itself ) and makes us enjoy real pleasures by inventions merely chimerical .
THE USEFUL S 1 WVLD BE JOINED TO THE AGREEABLE IN POETRY . IF in nature , and in arts , those things touch us most which carry with them the greatest benefit to ourselves , it follows , that such works as have the double advantage of producing both pleasure and profit , will be much more affecting than such as only produce one ofthe two . This is the sentiment of Horace :
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , JLectore ' m Aeteciando pariterque monendo . The design of Poetry is to please : and to please , in stirring the passions . But , to give us a perfect and substantial pleasure , it ougkt not to stir any but those which it , is of consequence to keep iij ,
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Ceremony Of A Gentoo Woman
and she was not , I am positive , either intoxicated or stupified . —« From several circumstances , I thought ihe Bramins exulted in this hellish sacrifice , and did not seem at all displeased that Europeans should be witnesses of it .
Dissertations On The Polite Arts.
DISSERTATIONS ON THE POLITE ARTS .
No . V . f - . . i ¦ i , ¦¦ I , ¦ ¦ i i a Continued from p . ij [ . POETRY . POETRY is a mixture of Painting , Musicand Eloquence .
, As Eloquence , it speaks , it proves , it relates . As Music , it lias a regulated course , tones and cadences , whose combination form a kind of concert . As Painting , it draws out objects , and lays on colours , it expresses every beauty in nature ; in a word , it makes use both of the colours and the pencil . It employs concords and liarmony , it shews truth , and knows how to make truth lovely .
Poetry takes in all kinds of subjects : it records every shining action in history : it enters into the regions of . philosophy : it flies into the skies , to admire the courses of the heavenly bodies : it darts into the sea , and into the entrails of the earth , there to examine the . secrets of nature : it penetrates even into the mansions of the dead , to see the rewards ofthe good , and the tortures ofthe bad : in short ,
it takes in the whole universe . If this worid be not sufficient , it creates new ones , which it embellishes with enchanted dwellings , and peoples with a thousand different sorts of inhabitants . There it creates beings after its own fancy : it produces nothing but what is perfect : it improves every production of nature : it is a kiud of mag ic : it flings illusion into the eyes , into the imagination , into the mind itself ) and makes us enjoy real pleasures by inventions merely chimerical .
THE USEFUL S 1 WVLD BE JOINED TO THE AGREEABLE IN POETRY . IF in nature , and in arts , those things touch us most which carry with them the greatest benefit to ourselves , it follows , that such works as have the double advantage of producing both pleasure and profit , will be much more affecting than such as only produce one ofthe two . This is the sentiment of Horace :
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci , JLectore ' m Aeteciando pariterque monendo . The design of Poetry is to please : and to please , in stirring the passions . But , to give us a perfect and substantial pleasure , it ougkt not to stir any but those which it , is of consequence to keep iij ,