Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresScott & Seguine, 1819 - 500 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 93
עמוד 9
... find , that in all the polished nations . of Europe , this study has been treated as highly important , and has possessed a considerable place in every plan of liberal education . B Indeed , when the arts of speech and writing are.
... find , that in all the polished nations . of Europe , this study has been treated as highly important , and has possessed a considerable place in every plan of liberal education . B Indeed , when the arts of speech and writing are.
עמוד 11
... considerable errors . All that regards the study of eloquence and composition , merits the higher attention upon this account , that it is intimately connected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . For I must be allowed to ...
... considerable errors . All that regards the study of eloquence and composition , merits the higher attention upon this account , that it is intimately connected with the improvement of our intellectual powers . For I must be allowed to ...
עמוד 18
... considerable source of the improvement of taste , from the application of reason and good sense to such productions of genius . Spurious beauties , such as unnatural characters , forced sentiments , affected style , may please for a ...
... considerable source of the improvement of taste , from the application of reason and good sense to such productions of genius . Spurious beauties , such as unnatural characters , forced sentiments , affected style , may please for a ...
עמוד 21
... considerably as to their object , and yet none of them be wrong . One man relishes poetry most ; another takes pleasure in nothing but history . One prefers comedy ; another tragedy . One ad- mires the simple ; another , the ornamented ...
... considerably as to their object , and yet none of them be wrong . One man relishes poetry most ; another takes pleasure in nothing but history . One prefers comedy ; another tragedy . One ad- mires the simple ; another , the ornamented ...
עמוד 27
... considerable degree of taste in poetry , eloquence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any genius for composition or execution in any of these arts : but genius cannot be found without including taste also . Genius ...
... considerable degree of taste in poetry , eloquence , or any of the fine arts , who has little or hardly any genius for composition or execution in any of these arts : but genius cannot be found without including taste also . Genius ...
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עמוד 402 - curlew sound, Over some wide watered shore, Swinging slow with solemn roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Far from all resort of mirth, Teach light to counterfeit a gloom ; Save the cricket on the hearth,
עמוד 158 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ? That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house
עמוד 428 - we are true men, thy servants are no spies. And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land ot Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father ; and one
עמוד 196 - 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
עמוד 29 - awful obscurity. We may see this fully exemplified in the following noble passage of the book of Job. " In thoughts from the visions of the night, " when deep sleep falleth upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling,
עמוד 409 - of the Lord is risen upon thee : for lo ! darkness shall cover the earth,—and gross darkness the people. But the Lord shall rise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentiles shall come to thy
עמוד 158 - the fall of the Assyrian empire : ' Thou shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, how hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. He
עמוד 416 - he shall perish for ever. He shall fly away as a •dream, and shall not be found ; yea, he shall be chased away, as a vision of the night. The eye also which saw him, shall see him no more ; they which have seen him shall say, where is he?—He shall
עמוד 428 - and they answered, From the land of Canaan we come to buy food. And Joseph said, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come ; we are all one man's
עמוד 119 - but else, so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.' Every thing in this sentence conspires to promote the harmony. The words are happily chosen ; full of