An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - 230 páginas |
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... ornaments of dress , their war and their death songs , their ha- rangues and their orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human mind . To have some discernment of beauty is no less essen- tial to man ...
... ornaments of dress , their war and their death songs , their ha- rangues and their orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human mind . To have some discernment of beauty is no less essen- tial to man ...
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... ornament ; and concise- ness to superfluous expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness ... ornaments ; nay , if he throw in any one decoration which falls in the least below the principal image ; that moment ...
... ornament ; and concise- ness to superfluous expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness ... ornaments ; nay , if he throw in any one decoration which falls in the least below the principal image ; that moment ...
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... ornament . In the Greek and Roman languages , a musical and gesticulating pronunciation was retain- ed in a very high degree . Without attending to this , we shall be at a loss in understanding several passa- ges of the classics , which ...
... ornament . In the Greek and Roman languages , a musical and gesticulating pronunciation was retain- ed in a very high degree . Without attending to this , we shall be at a loss in understanding several passa- ges of the classics , which ...
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... ornament was pro- fessedly studied . How may we form an idea of the origin of language ? What is said of mankind in their rude state ? Was speech necessary previously to the formation of so- ciety ? Could language be invented before ...
... ornament was pro- fessedly studied . How may we form an idea of the origin of language ? What is said of mankind in their rude state ? Was speech necessary previously to the formation of so- ciety ? Could language be invented before ...
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... ornament . It will readily be admitted , that perspicuity is the fundamental quality of a good style . Without this the brightest ornaments- 1 only glimmer through the dark , and perplex instead 60 Style , Perspicuity , and Precision ...
... ornament . It will readily be admitted , that perspicuity is the fundamental quality of a good style . Without this the brightest ornaments- 1 only glimmer through the dark , and perplex instead 60 Style , Perspicuity , and Precision ...
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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.