Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresEvert Duyckinck, 1817 - 500 páginas |
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... words in which they are clothed . The study of composition , important in itself at all times , has acquired additional importance from the taste and manners of the present age . It is an age wherein improvements , in every part of ...
... words in which they are clothed . The study of composition , important in itself at all times , has acquired additional importance from the taste and manners of the present age . It is an age wherein improvements , in every part of ...
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... words . It will be found to hold , without exception , that the most sublime authors are the simplest in their style ; and wherever you find a writer , who effects a more than ordinary pomp and parade of words , and is always ...
... words . It will be found to hold , without exception , that the most sublime authors are the simplest in their style ; and wherever you find a writer , who effects a more than ordinary pomp and parade of words , and is always ...
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... words and writing . Words have no natural resemblance to the ideas or objects which they are employed to signify ; but a statue or a picture has a natural likeness to the original . And therefore imita- tion and description differ ...
... words and writing . Words have no natural resemblance to the ideas or objects which they are employed to signify ; but a statue or a picture has a natural likeness to the original . And therefore imita- tion and description differ ...
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... words were invented or known , it is clear , that men could have no other method of communicat- ing to others what they felt , than by the cries of passion , accompanied with such motions and gestures as were farther expressive of ...
... words were invented or known , it is clear , that men could have no other method of communicat- ing to others what they felt , than by the cries of passion , accompanied with such motions and gestures as were farther expressive of ...
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... words formed . * As far as this system is founded in truth , language appears to be not al- together arbitrary in its origin . Among the ancient Stoic and Platonic philosophers , it was a question much agitated , " Utrum nomina rerum ...
... words formed . * As far as this system is founded in truth , language appears to be not al- together arbitrary in its origin . Among the ancient Stoic and Platonic philosophers , it was a question much agitated , " Utrum nomina rerum ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison admiration admit advantage Æneid agreeable ancient appears Aristotle attention beauty called character Cicero circumstances comedy composition considered criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant eloquence employed English English language epic epic poetry expression fancy figures French frequently genius give grace Greek hearers Hence Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance Isocrates Julius Cæsar kind language Latin lecture Lord Shaftesbury manner means metaphor mind nature never objects observe occasion orator ornament particular passion peculiar person perspicuity plain pleasure poem poet poetical poetry precision principles proper propriety prose public speaking Quintilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule scene sense sensible sentence sentiments shew simplicity sort sound speaker species speech strength style sublime Tacitus taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tongue tragedy tropes variety verbs verse Virgil whole words writing
Passagens conhecidas
Página 422 - 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 418 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Página 423 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 121 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Página 206 - 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 157 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 43 - God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off...
Página 169 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Página 418 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 168 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...