An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 páginas |
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... Nature of Poetry . Its Origin and Progress- Versification 230 English Versification 232 Pastoral Poetry 235 Lyric Poetry 240 Didactic Poetry 243 PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry vi CONTENTS .
... Nature of Poetry . Its Origin and Progress- Versification 230 English Versification 232 Pastoral Poetry 235 Lyric Poetry 240 Didactic Poetry 243 PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry vi CONTENTS .
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Hugh Blair. PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 246 250 255 261 The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia The Luciad of Camoens 265 269 Tasso's Jerusaleın The Telemachus of Fenelon The ...
Hugh Blair. PAGE Descriptive Poetry The Poetry of the Hebrews Epic Poetry Homer's Iliad and Odyssey 246 250 255 261 The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia The Luciad of Camoens 265 269 Tasso's Jerusaleın The Telemachus of Fenelon The ...
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... epic composition were not first discover- ed 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 su- perior pleasure , which we derive ...
... epic composition were not first discover- ed 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 su- perior pleasure , which we derive ...
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... epic poetry , Homer and Virgil are still unrivalled ; and orators , equal to Demosthenes and Cicero , we have nohe . In history , we have no modern narration so elegant , so picturesque , so animated , and interesting as those of ...
... epic poetry , Homer and Virgil are still unrivalled ; and orators , equal to Demosthenes and Cicero , we have nohe . In history , we have no modern narration so elegant , so picturesque , so animated , and interesting as those of ...
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... epic poem and the drama , are all reduced to rule , and exercise the acuteness of criticism ... Greibe ENGLISH VERSIFICATION . NATIONS , whose language and pronunciation were musical , rested their versification chiefly on the ...
... epic poem and the drama , are all reduced to rule , and exercise the acuteness of criticism ... Greibe ENGLISH VERSIFICATION . NATIONS , whose language and pronunciation were musical , rested their versification chiefly on the ...
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abounds action admits agreeable ancient appear arguments Aristotle attention beautiful blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace grandeur Greek guage hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced ject kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never objects observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasure poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking racters render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus Taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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Página 248 - 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, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth...
Página 249 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Página 248 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Página 252 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Página 233 - 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.
Página 96 - pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in" knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be seen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure " none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His, " own reason he holds to be the certain measure of truth ;and «' his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Página 118 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Página 253 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 205 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Página 119 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the 'first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?