An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - 230 páginas |
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... proper Style Critical Examination of Mr. Addison's Style in No. 411 of the Spectator Eloquence . - Origin of Eloquence . - Grecian Elo- quence . - Demosthenes . 103 109 116 Roman Eloquence . - Cicero . - Modern Eloquence 121 Eloquence ...
... proper Style Critical Examination of Mr. Addison's Style in No. 411 of the Spectator Eloquence . - Origin of Eloquence . - Grecian Elo- quence . - Demosthenes . 103 109 116 Roman Eloquence . - Cicero . - Modern Eloquence 121 Eloquence ...
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Hugh Blair. English Tragedy Comedy : Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English Comedy PAGE 220 222 225 226 227 228 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal CONTENTS . 7.
Hugh Blair. English Tragedy Comedy : Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English Comedy PAGE 220 222 225 226 227 228 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal CONTENTS . 7.
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Hugh Blair. INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal arts is requisite to the study of rhetoric and belles lettres . To extend the knowledge of them must be the first care of those who wish either to write with ...
Hugh Blair. INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal arts is requisite to the study of rhetoric and belles lettres . To extend the knowledge of them must be the first care of those who wish either to write with ...
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... proper models for imitation ; they point out the principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to enlighten taste , and to con- duct genius from unnatural ...
... proper models for imitation ; they point out the principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to enlighten taste , and to con- duct genius from unnatural ...
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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.