An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricParaclete Potter, and by Sheldon Potter, Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia., 1818 - 276 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 44
עמוד 39
... period existed before words were invented or known it is evident that men could have no other method of commu- nicating their feelings , than by the cries of pas- sion , accompanied by such motions and gestures as were farther ...
... period existed before words were invented or known it is evident that men could have no other method of commu- nicating their feelings , than by the cries of pas- sion , accompanied by such motions and gestures as were farther ...
עמוד 42
... period among all rude nations , when conversation was carried on by a very few words , intermixed with many exclamations and earnest gestures . The small stock of words which men then possessed , rendered those helps entirely necessary ...
... period among all rude nations , when conversation was carried on by a very few words , intermixed with many exclamations and earnest gestures . The small stock of words which men then possessed , rendered those helps entirely necessary ...
עמוד 46
... period of language . Let us figure to our- selves a Savage beholding some fruit which he earnestly desires , and requests another to give him . Suppose him unacquainted with words , he would strive to make himself understood by poi ting ...
... period of language . Let us figure to our- selves a Savage beholding some fruit which he earnestly desires , and requests another to give him . Suppose him unacquainted with words , he would strive to make himself understood by poi ting ...
עמוד 70
... period . The following pas- sage in Bishop Sherlock's Sermons will exem- plify these observations It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves against the accidents of life , " by heaping up treasures which nothing can 66 protect us against ...
... period . The following pas- sage in Bishop Sherlock's Sermons will exem- plify these observations It is folly to pretend to arm ourselves against the accidents of life , " by heaping up treasures which nothing can 66 protect us against ...
עמוד 71
... period into nonsense . The sen- tence should have been thus constructed : It ❝is folly to pretend by heaping up treasures to " arm ourselves against the accidents of life , a- " gainst which nothing can protect us , but the " good ...
... period into nonsense . The sen- tence should have been thus constructed : It ❝is folly to pretend by heaping up treasures to " arm ourselves against the accidents of life , a- " gainst which nothing can protect us , but the " good ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
action Addison admit Æneid agreeable ancient appear attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise connexion declensions degree Demosthenes didactic dignity discourse distinction distinguished Dunciad effect elegant eloquence employed English epic poem epic poetry exhibit expression figure frequently genius give grace Greek harmonious hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance ject kind language Latin Livy Lord Bolingbroke lyric poetry manner mean melody ment metaphor Milton mind mode modern moral musical nature ness never nouns observe odes orator origin of language ornament passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar person perspicuity pleasing pleasure poet poetical poetry polytheism prepositions pression pronouns proper propriety render requisite rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity sound speaker species speech spirit strength style sublime syllable Taste tence Theism Theocritus thing thought tion tongues tragedy ture unity variety verb verse Virgil words writing
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 179 - 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 159 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
עמוד 81 - Health,' has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.
עמוד 77 - A beautiful prospect delights the soul as much as a demonstration; and a description in Homer has charmed more readers than a chapter in Aristotle.
עמוד 147 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
עמוד 80 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body, as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions. For this reason, Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health...
עמוד 79 - 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. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures : so that he looks upon the world as it were in another light. and discovers in it a multitude of charms, that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.
עמוד 17 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
עמוד 173 - 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 jackals, where each lay, shall be grass, with reeds and rushes.
עמוד 21 - 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...