An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 34
עמוד 6
... Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 224 The Eneid of Virgil 228 Lucan's Pharsalia 231 Tasso's Jerusalem 233 The Lusiad of Camoens 235 The Telemachus of Fenelon 237 The Henriade of Voltaire 239 Milton's Paradise Lost Greek Tragedy French Tragedy ...
... Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 224 The Eneid of Virgil 228 Lucan's Pharsalia 231 Tasso's Jerusalem 233 The Lusiad of Camoens 235 The Telemachus of Fenelon 237 The Henriade of Voltaire 239 Milton's Paradise Lost Greek Tragedy French Tragedy ...
עמוד 13
... Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties ...
... Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties ...
עמוד 14
... Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure , which we derive from the relation of an action , which is one and en- tire , beyond what we receive from the relation of scattered and unconnected facts . A ...
... Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure , which we derive from the relation of an action , which is one and en- tire , beyond what we receive from the relation of scattered and unconnected facts . A ...
עמוד 24
... Homer has in all ages been universally admir- ed for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaffected sim- plicity which characterizes his manner . descriptions of conflicting armies ; the spirit ...
... Homer has in all ages been universally admir- ed for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaffected sim- plicity which characterizes his manner . descriptions of conflicting armies ; the spirit ...
עמוד 26
... Homer's description of the nod of Ju- piter , as shaking the heavens , bas been admired in all ages , as wonderfully sublime . Literally translated , it runs thus ; " He spoke , and bend- ing his sable brows , gave the awful nod ; while ...
... Homer's description of the nod of Ju- piter , as shaking the heavens , bas been admired in all ages , as wonderfully sublime . Literally translated , it runs thus ; " He spoke , and bend- ing his sable brows , gave the awful nod ; while ...
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action admit Æneid agreeable ancient appear arguments attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise criticism degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit express fancy figure founded French frequently genius give grace grandeur Greek hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance ject kind language Livy Lusiad lyric poetry manner ment merit metaphor mind mode modern moral motion narration nature never objects observed orator ornament Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures of taste poet poetical principal proper propriety prose public speaking render requisite resemblance rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity sion sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus tence theatre of France thing thought tion tragedy tropes unity variety verse Virgil words writing
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עמוד 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
עמוד 201 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
עמוד 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
עמוד 24 - 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...
עמוד 214 - 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, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
עמוד 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
עמוד 101 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
עמוד 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
עמוד 98 - 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.
עמוד 125 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.