An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 עמודים |
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עמוד 66
... pause , and to read over his sen- tences a second time , in order to understand them fully , he will not please us long . - Men are too indolent to relish so much labour . Though they may pretend to admire an author's depth , after they ...
... pause , and to read over his sen- tences a second time , in order to understand them fully , he will not please us long . - Men are too indolent to relish so much labour . Though they may pretend to admire an author's depth , after they ...
עמוד 83
... pause in the pronuncia- tion ; and these pauses should be so distributed , as to bear a certain musical proportion to each other . This will be best illustrated by examples . " This discourse concerning the easiness of God's commands ...
... pause in the pronuncia- tion ; and these pauses should be so distributed , as to bear a certain musical proportion to each other . This will be best illustrated by examples . " This discourse concerning the easiness of God's commands ...
עמוד 84
... pauses , and in the manner of rounding the period , and of bringing it to a full and harmonious close . It may be remarked , that little words in the conclusion of a sentence are as injurious to mel- ody , as they are inconsistent with ...
... pauses , and in the manner of rounding the period , and of bringing it to a full and harmonious close . It may be remarked , that little words in the conclusion of a sentence are as injurious to mel- ody , as they are inconsistent with ...
עמוד 85
... pauses at equal intervals , should never suc- ceed each other . Short sentences must be blend- ed with long and swelling ones , to render dis- course sprightly as well as magnificent . We now proceed to treat of a higher species of ...
... pauses at equal intervals , should never suc- ceed each other . Short sentences must be blend- ed with long and swelling ones , to render dis- course sprightly as well as magnificent . We now proceed to treat of a higher species of ...
עמוד 122
... pausing too long on every word . On certain occasions a glow of composition must be kept up , if we hope to express ourselves happily , though at the expence of some inaccuracies . A more severe examination must be the work of ...
... pausing too long on every word . On certain occasions a glow of composition must be kept up , if we hope to express ourselves happily , though at the expence of some inaccuracies . A more severe examination must be the work of ...
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 109 - God is not a man, that he should lie ; " nor the Son of Man, that he should repent.
עמוד 222 - 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 218 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
עמוד 103 - 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 103 - 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...
עמוד 222 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
עמוד 221 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
עמוד 24 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : Even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
עמוד 179 - Aonian maids, Delight no more; — O thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son!
עמוד 27 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and...