An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 էջ |
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... the dis- charge of the higher and more important duties of life the transition is natural and easy . Of those minds , which have this elegant and liberal turn , the most pleasing hopes may be entertained . On the M INTRODUCTION .
... the dis- charge of the higher and more important duties of life the transition is natural and easy . Of those minds , which have this elegant and liberal turn , the most pleasing hopes may be entertained . On the M INTRODUCTION .
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Hugh Blair. the most pleasing hopes may be entertained . On the contrary , entire insensibility to eloquence , poe . try , or any of the fine arts , may justly be consi- dered as a bad symptom in youth ; and supposes them inclined to low ...
Hugh Blair. the most pleasing hopes may be entertained . On the contrary , entire insensibility to eloquence , poe . try , or any of the fine arts , may justly be consi- dered as a bad symptom in youth ; and supposes them inclined to low ...
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... pleasing is derived ; and is pleased himself precisely in that degree , in which he ought , and no more . Taste is certainly not an arbitrary principle , which is subject to the fancy of every individual , and which admits no criterion ...
... pleasing is derived ; and is pleased himself precisely in that degree , in which he ought , and no more . Taste is certainly not an arbitrary principle , which is subject to the fancy of every individual , and which admits no criterion ...
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... ably above its common pitch . A species of enthusi asm is produced , extremely pleasing , while it lasts ; but the mind is tending every moment to sink into its or dinary state . When an author has brought us , SUBLIMITY IN WRITING . 31.
... ably above its common pitch . A species of enthusi asm is produced , extremely pleasing , while it lasts ; but the mind is tending every moment to sink into its or dinary state . When an author has brought us , SUBLIMITY IN WRITING . 31.
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... pleasing serenity . Sublimity excites a feeling , too violent to be lasting ; the pleasure , proceeding from Beauty , admits longer duration : It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so ...
... pleasing serenity . Sublimity excites a feeling , too violent to be lasting ; the pleasure , proceeding from Beauty , admits longer duration : It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so ...
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Էջ 248 - 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, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth...
Էջ 249 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Էջ 248 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Էջ 252 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Էջ 233 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Էջ 96 - pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in" knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be seen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure " none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His, " own reason he holds to be the certain measure of truth ;and «' his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Էջ 118 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Էջ 253 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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.
Էջ 205 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Էջ 119 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the 'first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?