An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricThomas Carey, 1818 - 300 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 26
עמוד 5
... Didactic Poetry 223 Descriptive Poetry 226 The Poetry of the Hebrews 230 Epic Poetry 234 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 239 The Eneid of Virgil 243 Lucan's Pharsalia PAGE . 246 Tasso's Jerusalem 248 The Lusiad A 2 CONTENTS .
... Didactic Poetry 223 Descriptive Poetry 226 The Poetry of the Hebrews 230 Epic Poetry 234 Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 239 The Eneid of Virgil 243 Lucan's Pharsalia PAGE . 246 Tasso's Jerusalem 248 The Lusiad A 2 CONTENTS .
עמוד 15
... 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 16
... Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure , which we derive from the relation of an action , which is one and entire , 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 entire , beyond what we receive from the relation of scattered and unconnected facts . A ...
עמוד 28
... Homer has in all ages been universally ad- mired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaf- fected simplicity which characterizes his man- ner . His descriptions of conflicting armies ; the ...
... Homer has in all ages been universally ad- mired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaf- fected simplicity which characterizes his man- ner . His descriptions of conflicting armies ; the ...
עמוד 30
... 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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action admit affectation agreeable ancient appear arguments atheism attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise connected degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace Greek guage hearers heart Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance Jane Shore jects kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner ment metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never object observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sensibility sentence sentiments simplicity sion Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus taste thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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עמוד 232 - 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. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
עמוד 106 - 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 228 - 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 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
עמוד 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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 with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
עמוד 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
עמוד 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
עמוד 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
עמוד 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
עמוד 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?