An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 עמודים |
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עמוד 12
... sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general Taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of Taste ; it is found by experience , that there are ...
... sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general Taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of Taste ; it is found by experience , that there are ...
עמוד 19
... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , is at any time grand and awful ; but when heard amid the silence and stillness of night , they be- come doubly so . Darkness is very generally ap- plied for adding sublimity to ...
... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , is at any time grand and awful ; but when heard amid the silence and stillness of night , they be- come doubly so . Darkness is very generally ap- plied for adding sublimity to ...
עמוד 37
... sound . Hence the charm of poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule open likewise a variety of pleasures to Taste , al- together different from any that have yet been ...
... sound . Hence the charm of poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule open likewise a variety of pleasures to Taste , al- together different from any that have yet been ...
עמוד 39
... sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a few , whom chance or necessity threw together , agreed by some means upon certain signs ; yet by what authority could Origin and Progress of ...
... sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a few , whom chance or necessity threw together , agreed by some means upon certain signs ; yet by what authority could Origin and Progress of ...
עמוד 41
... sound of the name given to it . As a painter , who would repre- sent grass , must employ a green colour ; so in the infancy of language , one giving a name to any thing harsh or boisterous , would of course em- ploy a harsh or ...
... sound of the name given to it . As a painter , who would repre- sent grass , must employ a green colour ; so in the infancy of language , one giving a name to any thing harsh or boisterous , would of course em- ploy a harsh or ...
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action Addison admit Æneid affectation agreeable ancient appear arguments attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes Descriptive Poetry dignity discourse distinction distinguished elegant Eloquence employed English epic poem epic poetry excel exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace grandeur Greek hearers Hence Henriade historian Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced jects kind Livy Lusiad lyric poetry manner ments metaphor mind modern moral narration nature never objects observed orator ornament paint Paradise Lost passion pastoral Pastoral Poetry pathetic pause peculiar person perspicuity Pharsalia Pleasures of Taste poet poetical Progress of Language Pronunciation or Delivery proper propriety public speaking render requisite rule scene sense sentiments simplicity sion sound speaker species speech spirit strength Structure of Sentences sublime syllable Tacitus tence Theocritus thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil words writing
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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...