An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricThomas Carey, 1818 - 300 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד 7
... to supply want of mat- ter by graces of composition ; and courted the temporary applause of the ignorant instead of the lasting ap- probation of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body INTRODUCTION 64.
... to supply want of mat- ter by graces of composition ; and courted the temporary applause of the ignorant instead of the lasting ap- probation of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body INTRODUCTION 64.
עמוד 8
... composition must be formed of knowledge and science . Rhetoric completes the structure , and adds the polish ; but firm and solid bodies only are able to receive it . Among the learned it has long been a contested , and remains still an ...
... composition must be formed of knowledge and science . Rhetoric completes the structure , and adds the polish ; but firm and solid bodies only are able to receive it . Among the learned it has long been a contested , and remains still an ...
עמוד 15
... composition , what interests the ima- gination , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being properly struck , the human heart is so made , as to accord to it . Hence the ...
... composition , what interests the ima- gination , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being properly struck , the human heart is so made , as to accord to it . Hence the ...
עמוד 16
... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure , which we derive from ...
... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure , which we derive from ...
עמוד 43
... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Eneid an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the imitation of a ...
... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Eneid an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the imitation of a ...
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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?