An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 עמודים |
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עמוד vii
Hugh Blair. PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 246 250 255 261 The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia The Luciad of Camoens 265 269 Tasso's Jerusaleın The Telemachus of Fenelon The ...
Hugh Blair. PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 246 250 255 261 The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia The Luciad of Camoens 265 269 Tasso's Jerusaleın The Telemachus of Fenelon The ...
עמוד 17
... Homer , and the Eneid of Vir- gil . Hence the authority , which such works have ob- tained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of kind is with respect to those beauties ...
... Homer , and the Eneid of Vir- gil . Hence the authority , which such works have ob- tained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of kind is with respect to those beauties ...
עמוד 18
... Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the su- perior pleasure , which we derive from the relation of an action , which is one and entire beyond what we re- ceive from the relation of scattered and unconnected facts . A ...
... Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the su- perior pleasure , which we derive from the relation of an action , which is one and entire beyond what we re- ceive from the relation of scattered and unconnected facts . A ...
עמוד 30
... Homer has in all ages been universally admired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaffected simplicity , which charac- . terise's his manner . His descriptions of conflicting ar- mies ; the ...
... Homer has in all ages been universally admired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaffected simplicity , which charac- . terise's his manner . His descriptions of conflicting ar- mies ; the ...
עמוד 32
... Homer's description of the nod of Jupiter , as shaking the heavens , has been admired in all ages , as wonderfully sublime . Literally translated , it runs thus : " He spoke , and bending his " sable brows gave the awful nod ; while he ...
... Homer's description of the nod of Jupiter , as shaking the heavens , has been admired in all ages , as wonderfully sublime . Literally translated , it runs thus : " He spoke , and bending his " sable brows gave the awful nod ; while he ...
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abounds action admits agreeable ancient appear arguments Aristotle attention beautiful blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace grandeur Greek guage hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced ject kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never objects observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasure poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking racters render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus Taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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עמוד 248 - 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...
עמוד 249 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
עמוד 248 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd 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...
עמוד 252 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
עמוד 233 - 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 96 - pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in" knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be seen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure " none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His, " own reason he holds to be the certain measure of truth ;and «' his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
עמוד 118 - 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 253 - 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. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
עמוד 205 - 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...
עמוד 119 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last 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?