Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 4
... employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter ; and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted , instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such imposture can never maintain its ground long ...
... employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter ; and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted , instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such imposture can never maintain its ground long ...
עמוד 5
... employed in composition , or in public speaking . Others , without any prospect of this kind , may wish only to improve their taste with respect to writing and discourse , and to acquire principles which will enable them to judge for ...
... employed in composition , or in public speaking . Others , without any prospect of this kind , may wish only to improve their taste with respect to writing and discourse , and to acquire principles which will enable them to judge for ...
עמוד 6
... employed after a proper manner , in the study of composition , we are cultivat- ing reason itself . True rhetoric and sound logic are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and expressing our thoughts with propriety , teaches to ...
... employed after a proper manner , in the study of composition , we are cultivat- ing reason itself . True rhetoric and sound logic are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and expressing our thoughts with propriety , teaches to ...
עמוד 35
... employed , without distinct ideas annexed to them . In beginning a course of Lectures where such words must often occur , it is necessary to ascertain their meaning with some precision . Having in the last Lecture treated of Taste , I ...
... employed , without distinct ideas annexed to them . In beginning a course of Lectures where such words must often occur , it is necessary to ascertain their meaning with some precision . Having in the last Lecture treated of Taste , I ...
עמוד 54
... are exceedingly terrible ; but are destitute of all claim whatever to Sublimity . I am inclined to think , that mighty force or power , whether accompanied with terror or not , whether employed in 54 [ Lect . III . SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS .
... are exceedingly terrible ; but are destitute of all claim whatever to Sublimity . I am inclined to think , that mighty force or power , whether accompanied with terror or not , whether employed in 54 [ Lect . III . SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS .
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Addison admiration advantage agreeable ancient appears Aristotle arrangement attention beautiful called character Cicero circumstances colours composition considered Criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant Eloquence employed English English Language expression fancy Figures Figures of Speech French frequent genius give grace Greek guage harmony Hence ideas imagination imitation instance Isocrates kind Language Latin Lecture Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury Lysias manner means ment Metaphor mind musical nations nature never objects observe occasion Orator ornament particular passion period Perspicuity pleasure poet poetry precise principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quinctilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signify Simplicity Sir William Temple sort sound speak Speech strength Style Sublime substantive nouns Taste tence thing thought Tongue Tropes variety verbs whole words writing
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
עמוד 330 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
עמוד 411 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
עמוד 331 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
עמוד 57 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
עמוד 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
עמוד 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
עמוד 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
עמוד 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
עמוד 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.