Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [60] D I A L O G U E II. Aspasia, Hortensius, Eugenia. Hor. f l H E moment, Eugenio, you left us yesterday, JL Aspasia betook herself to her Shakespear: her eagerness to apply the hints you have given her, is not to be satisfied; and she seems to enjoy her discoveries, 5 like one who had suddenly acquired a new sense. To nobler sights, Michael from Adam’s eyes the film removed1). [6l] Asp. Such advantages were not intended for us poor women; even Angels are partial, as you represent 10 them: thus Michael, when he meant to enlighten Adam, says to him, Ascend This hill; let Eve (for I have drench’d her eyes) Here sleep below, while thou to foresight wak'st ). 15 So it is you men deal with us; you cut us off from the means of knowledge, and then wonder at our ignorance. Good sense you have appropriated, by calling it manly. ) Par. L. XI, 411?412. 2) Ebda. 366?368. Taste, indeed, you allow us; but you keep it in subjection to your superior genius:? [62] Eug. Were you to examine thoroughly the difference between Taste and Genius, you would have the 5 satisfaction to find, that there are few men who are entitled to a submission from you on this account. Asp. Let me, Eugenio, owe this obligation, as I have done many others, to you. Eug. As our conversation yesterday turned intirely on 10 poetry, we may preserve a connexion, by considering the qualities to be examined, solely as they relate to that art. When they are once determined in any one mode, it will be easy to extend them to eloquence in general, and from thence to every art in which they are naturally 15 exerted. [63] A Poet illustrates one object by a comparison with another: he discovers a just and beautiful relation between two ideas: this is Genius. Aspasia feels i…
