An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which From Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams
by Pierre Nicole
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About this eBook
- Author
- Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695
- Title
- An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Epigrams -- History and criticism
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28921
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28921
- Release Date
- May 22, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which From Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams — by Pierre Nicole — Translated by J. V. Cunningham — Publication Number 24 (Series IV, No. 5) — Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1950
- 2.INTRODUCTION
- 3.AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED PRINCIPLES IS RENDERED THE GROUNDS FOR CHOOSING AND REJECTING EPIGRAMS. — Why men's judgments on beauty differ so much. — How seldom it charms in echoing the sense, how commonly by sweetness. Its natural measure in the ear. — Pleasantness of sound is justly exacted of poets. The harshness of many poets, particularly the German. Some are too melodious. — How diction should be suited to subject-matter. — In what way diction should answer to man's inner nature. First, the grounds of the natural disaffection with unusual diction: how far this should be observed. — The inner and more intimate agreement of words and nature. — On a too metaphorical style. Certain epigrams rejected for this reason. — Truth, the primary virtue of ideas. How great a fault there is in untruth. Thence, of false epigrams. — On Joan of Arc, who is called "La pucelle d'Orleans" — On mythological epigrams. — On puns. — On hyperbolical ideas. — On debatable and controvertible ideas. — The second virtue of ideas, that they should agree with the inner nature of the subject; and thence on ideas foreign and accidental to the subject. — In what way ideas are to be made agreeable to men's character. On avoiding offense; and, first, on obscenity. — On the cheap subject-matter of some epigrams. — On spiteful epigrams. — On wordy epigrams. — On trifling wit, and plays on words. — In what way natural inclinations are to be gratified. — The origin of the name epigram. Its definition, form, and laws. — The material of epigrams; thence the division into different kinds. The first kind and the second. — Notes
- 4.PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY
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