An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - 230 páginas |
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... original . In reading , for instance , the neid of Virgil , a great part of our pleasure arises from the proper con- duct of the plan , or story ; from all the parts being joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
... original . In reading , for instance , the neid of Virgil , a great part of our pleasure arises from the proper con- duct of the plan , or story ; from all the parts being joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
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... original , is highly animated and sublime . But when the powers descending swell'd the fight , Then tumult rose , fierce rage , and pale affright . Now through the trembling shores Minerva calls , And now she thunders from the Grecian ...
... original , is highly animated and sublime . But when the powers descending swell'd the fight , Then tumult rose , fierce rage , and pale affright . Now through the trembling shores Minerva calls , And now she thunders from the Grecian ...
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... original the shaking of his hair is the consequence of his nod , and makes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description . The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all ...
... original the shaking of his hair is the consequence of his nod , and makes a happy picturesque circumstance in the description . The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all ...
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... original ideas of beauty or grandeur , which such objects themselves exhibited ; but even objects which have neither beauty nor gran- deur ; nay , some which are terrible or deformed , give us pleasure , in a secondary or represented ...
... original ideas of beauty or grandeur , which such objects themselves exhibited ; but even objects which have neither beauty nor gran- deur ; nay , some which are terrible or deformed , give us pleasure , in a secondary or represented ...
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... original . As far , however , as a poet or historian introduces into his work persons really speaking , and by words which he puts into their mouths , represents the con- versation which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his art ...
... original . As far , however , as a poet or historian introduces into his work persons really speaking , and by words which he puts into their mouths , represents the con- versation which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his art ...
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abounds action admit Æneid agreeable ancient appear arguments attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed English English language epic poem epic poetry excel exhibit expression fancy fault figure founded French frequently genius Give an example grace Greek Greek tragedy guage hearers Hence Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced invention kind language Livy Lusiad manner metaphor Milton mind mode modern moral motion narration nature never nouns objects observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pastoral poetry pathetic pause peculiar perfect perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures poet poetical proper propriety public speaking racter render requisite rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil words writing
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Página 185 - 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.
Página 88 - 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.
Página 114 - 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.
Página 182 - 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...
Página 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 182 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Página 111 - 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 that are most agreeable to the imagination...
Página 185 - 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 174 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala (dux ego vester eram) vidi cum matre legentem. alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus; iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. 40 ut vidi ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error.
Página 186 - 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.