An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricThomas Carey, 1818 - 300 páginas |
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... manner , in which art can most effectually furnish aid for such a pur- pose ; and it were presumption to as- sert , that rhetorical rules , how just so- ever , are sufficient to form an orator . Private application and study , sup ...
... manner , in which art can most effectually furnish aid for such a pur- pose ; and it were presumption to as- sert , that rhetorical rules , how just so- ever , are sufficient to form an orator . Private application and study , sup ...
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... 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 copy with the ...
... 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 copy with the ...
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... manner , as is agreeable to the most important rules of criti- cism ; for , as these rules are founded in nature , nature will frequently suggest them in practice . Homer was a cquainted with no system of the art of poetry Guided by ...
... manner , as is agreeable to the most important rules of criti- cism ; for , as these rules are founded in nature , nature will frequently suggest them in practice . Homer was a cquainted with no system of the art of poetry Guided by ...
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... manner he would be treated ; answered , " Like a King ; " and Cesar , chiding the pilot , who was afraid to set out with him in a storm , 65 Quid times ? Casa- rem vehis , " are good instances of the sentimental Sublimity in Objects . 23.
... manner he would be treated ; answered , " Like a King ; " and Cesar , chiding the pilot , who was afraid to set out with him in a storm , 65 Quid times ? Casa- rem vehis , " are good instances of the sentimental Sublimity in Objects . 23.
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... manner of representing it . What an assemblage of awful and sublime ideas is present- ed to us in that passage of the eighteenth Psalm , where an appearance of the Almighty is des- cribed ! " In my distress I called upon the Lord ; he ...
... manner of representing it . What an assemblage of awful and sublime ideas is present- ed to us in that passage of the eighteenth Psalm , where an appearance of the Almighty is des- cribed ! " In my distress I called upon the Lord ; he ...
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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?