Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With QuestionsCollins & Company, 1831 - 268 sivua |
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... principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided , and con- sequently , tend to enlighten taste , and to conduct ge- nius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are ...
... principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided , and con- sequently , tend to enlighten taste , and to conduct ge- nius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are ...
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... principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the pleasures of taste in general , and to insist more parti- cularly upon sublimity and beauty . are not unfrequently to be met with ? -What is said of a universal ...
... principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the pleasures of taste in general , and to insist more parti- cularly upon sublimity and beauty . are not unfrequently to be met with ? -What is said of a universal ...
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... principal image ; that moment he changes the key ; he relaxes the tension of the mind ; from Pope's translation of the Iliad ? What is essential to sublime writing ? -What is sim- plicity opposed to ? -What conciseness ? -- Show how a ...
... principal image ; that moment he changes the key ; he relaxes the tension of the mind ; from Pope's translation of the Iliad ? What is essential to sublime writing ? -What is sim- plicity opposed to ? -What conciseness ? -- Show how a ...
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... principal object superlatively great ; a high , superior nature , fallen indeed , but raising itself against distress ; the grandeur of the principal object heightened by connecting it with so noble an idea , as that of the sun ...
... principal object superlatively great ; a high , superior nature , fallen indeed , but raising itself against distress ; the grandeur of the principal object heightened by connecting it with so noble an idea , as that of the sun ...
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... principal circumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr. Arbuthnot humorously observes , represented the mountain as in a fit of the cholic . Etna and all the burning mountains find Their kindled stores , with inbred storms of ...
... principal circumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr. Arbuthnot humorously observes , represented the mountain as in a fit of the cholic . Etna and all the burning mountains find Their kindled stores , with inbred storms of ...
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abounds action admit Æneid agreeable ancient appear arguments attention Balclutha beauty blank verse characters chiefly Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed English epic poem epic poetry example excel exhibit expression faults figure French frequently genius give grace Greek hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced Jane Shore ject kind language LECTURE Livy Lucan Lusiad manner ment merit metaphor Milton mind mode modern moral motion narration nature never objects observed orator oratory ornament Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures poet poetical preacher principal proper propriety public speaking racter render requisite resemblance Roman rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity sound speaker species speech spirit strength style sublime syllable Tacitus taste tence Theocritus thing thought tion tragedy unity variety verbs verse Virgil words writing
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Sivu 22 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Sivu 96 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Sivu 215 - Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Sivu 123 - The sense of feeling c-an indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye except colours: but at the same time, it is very much straitened and confined in its operations, to the number, bulk, and distance of its particular objects.
Sivu 128 - He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees...
Sivu 219 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God...
Sivu 99 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Sivu 217 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Sivu 23 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Sivu 177 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...