An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricParaclete Potter, and by Sheldon Potter, Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia., 1818 - 276 עמודים |
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עמוד 14
... principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the Pleasures of Taste in general , and to insist more particularly upon Sublimity and Beauty . We are far from having yet attained any sys- tem concerning this subject ...
... principal object of them . Our design is to give some opening into the Pleasures of Taste in general , and to insist more particularly upon Sublimity and Beauty . We are far from having yet attained any sys- tem concerning this subject ...
עמוד 24
... principal image ; that moment he chan- ges the key he relaxes the tensions of the mind ; the strength of the feeling is emasculated ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is extin- guished . Homer's description of the nod of ...
... principal image ; that moment he chan- ges the key he relaxes the tensions of the mind ; the strength of the feeling is emasculated ; the beautiful may remain , but the sublime is extin- guished . Homer's description of the nod of ...
עמוד 26
... principal object superlatively great ; a high , superior nature , fallen indeed , but raising itself against distress ; the grandeur of the principal object heightened by connecting it with so noble an idea , as that of the sun suf ...
... principal object superlatively great ; a high , superior nature , fallen indeed , but raising itself against distress ; the grandeur of the principal object heightened by connecting it with so noble an idea , as that of the sun suf ...
עמוד 28
... principal circumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr. Arbuth- not humorously observes , represented the moun- tain as in a fit of the cholic , Aina and all the burning mountains find Their kindled stores with imbred storms of ...
... principal circumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr. Arbuth- not humorously observes , represented the moun- tain as in a fit of the cholic , Aina and all the burning mountains find Their kindled stores with imbred storms of ...
עמוד 33
... principal Beauty of the countenance depends upon a mysterious expression , which it conveys of the qualities of the mind ; of good sense or good humour ; of candour ; benevolence , sensi- bility , or other amiable dispositions . It may ...
... principal Beauty of the countenance depends upon a mysterious expression , which it conveys of the qualities of the mind ; of good sense or good humour ; of candour ; benevolence , sensi- bility , or other amiable dispositions . It may ...
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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
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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...