An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricThomas Carey, 1818 - 300 páginas |
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... actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we expe- rience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether they be properly executed , belongs to the un- derstanding , which compares the ...
... actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we expe- rience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether they be properly executed , belongs to the un- derstanding , which compares the ...
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... action in dramatic and epic composition , were not first discovered 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 superior ...
... action in dramatic and epic composition , were not first discovered 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 superior ...
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... actions of our fellow creatures . These will be found to be chiefly of that class which comes under the name of magna- nimity or heroism ; and they produce an effect very similar to what is produced by a view of grand objects in nature ...
... actions of our fellow creatures . These will be found to be chiefly of that class which comes under the name of magna- nimity or heroism ; and they produce an effect very similar to what is produced by a view of grand objects in nature ...
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... action . Colour , figure , and motion , though separate principles of beauty , yet in many beautiful ob- jects meet together , and thereby render the beauty greater and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees , and animals , we are ...
... action . Colour , figure , and motion , though separate principles of beauty , yet in many beautiful ob- jects meet together , and thereby render the beauty greater and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees , and animals , we are ...
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... actions , always raise in us a feeling similar to that of beauty . There are two great classes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the great vir- tues , which require extraordinary efforts , and is founded on dangers and ...
... actions , always raise in us a feeling similar to that of beauty . There are two great classes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the great vir- tues , which require extraordinary efforts , and is founded on dangers and ...
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action admit affectation agreeable ancient appear arguments atheism attention beauty blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise connected degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace Greek guage hearers heart Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance Jane Shore jects kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner ment metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never object observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasures poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sensibility sentence sentiments simplicity sion Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus taste thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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Página 232 - 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 dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Página 106 - 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 228 - 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 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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 fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 134 - 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...
Página 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Página 233 - 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.
Página 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Página 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?