An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetorickHill and Moore, 1822 - 304 sider |
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Side 14
... persons , not un- frequently to be met , who have an excellent taste in several of the polite arts ; such as music , poetry , painting , and eloquence ; but an excellent performer in all these arts is very seldom found , or , rather ...
... persons , not un- frequently to be met , who have an excellent taste in several of the polite arts ; such as music , poetry , painting , and eloquence ; but an excellent performer in all these arts is very seldom found , or , rather ...
Side 25
... person , degrades the majesty of the description . The deba- sing effect of this idea will appear in a stronger light , from observing what figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity ...
... person , degrades the majesty of the description . The deba- sing effect of this idea will appear in a stronger light , from observing what figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity ...
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... person's taste is directed , from some writer or other he has it always in his power to receive the gratification of it . It has been usual among critical writers to treat of discourse , as the chief of all the imitative arts . They ...
... person's taste is directed , from some writer or other he has it always in his power to receive the gratification of it . It has been usual among critical writers to treat of discourse , as the chief of all the imitative arts . They ...
Side 41
... person who speaks , " It is impossi- ble for me ; " next , what the same person is to do- " to pass over in silence , " and lastly , the object which excites him to action , " the mildness , clemency and moderation of his patron ...
... person who speaks , " It is impossi- ble for me ; " next , what the same person is to do- " to pass over in silence , " and lastly , the object which excites him to action , " the mildness , clemency and moderation of his patron ...
Side 47
... enjoyed . Pronouns are the representatives of nouns , and are subject to the same modifications of number , gender and case . We may observe , however , that the pro- nouns of the first and second person , I and STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE . 47.
... enjoyed . Pronouns are the representatives of nouns , and are subject to the same modifications of number , gender and case . We may observe , however , that the pro- nouns of the first and second person , I and STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE . 47.
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Side 180 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Side 21 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Side 68 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
Side 107 - 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, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that...
Side 66 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Side 21 - He made darkness his secret place; His pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Side 69 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Side 19 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Side 23 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Side 109 - Entertain hopes, mirth rather than joy, variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.