An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 עמודים |
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עמוד 19
... excel in any one thing whatever . A man is said to have a genius for mathematics as well as a genius for poetry ; a genius for war , for politics , or for any mechanical employment . Genius may be greatly improved by art and study ; but ...
... excel in any one thing whatever . A man is said to have a genius for mathematics as well as a genius for poetry ; a genius for war , for politics , or for any mechanical employment . Genius may be greatly improved by art and study ; but ...
עמוד 179
... rived at eminence . Perfection is very distant from mo- dern preaching . The object , however , is truly noble , and worthy of being pursued with zeal . ? J To excel in preaching , it is necessary to have ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . 179.
... rived at eminence . Perfection is very distant from mo- dern preaching . The object , however , is truly noble , and worthy of being pursued with zeal . ? J To excel in preaching , it is necessary to have ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . 179.
עמוד 180
Hugh Blair. To excel in preaching , it is necessary to have a fix- ed and habitual view of its object . This is to per- suade men to become good . Every sermon ought therefore to be of a persuasive oration . It is not to dis- cuss some ...
Hugh Blair. To excel in preaching , it is necessary to have a fix- ed and habitual view of its object . This is to per- suade men to become good . Every sermon ought therefore to be of a persuasive oration . It is not to dis- cuss some ...
עמוד 209
... excel in any of the higher kinds of oratory , nothing is more necessary than to cultivate habits of the several virtues , and to refine and improve their moral feelings . A true ora- tor must possess generous sentiments , warm feel ...
... excel in any of the higher kinds of oratory , nothing is more necessary than to cultivate habits of the several virtues , and to refine and improve their moral feelings . A true ora- tor must possess generous sentiments , warm feel ...
עמוד 210
... excel in eloquence , ap- plication and industry cannot be too much recommend . ed . Without this it is impossible to excel in any thing . No one ever became a distinguished pleader , or preach . er , or speaker in any assembly , without ...
... excel in eloquence , ap- plication and industry cannot be too much recommend . ed . Without this it is impossible to excel in any thing . No one ever became a distinguished pleader , or preach . er , or speaker in any assembly , without ...
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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?