An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 էջ |
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... poet , or a bad artist ; but , when foreigners , or posteri- ty examine his works , his faults are discovered , and the genuine Taste of human nature is seen . Time over throws the illusions of opinion , but establishes the deci sions ...
... poet , or a bad artist ; but , when foreigners , or posteri- ty examine his works , his faults are discovered , and the genuine Taste of human nature is seen . Time over throws the illusions of opinion , but establishes the deci sions ...
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... poet or orator has of the rabject , which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and animated by the sublime idea , which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong ...
... poet or orator has of the rabject , which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and animated by the sublime idea , which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong ...
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... poet appears to put forth one of his highest efforts , and the description rises into the most awful magnificence . All nature appears in commotion , Jupiter thunders in the heavens ; Neptune strikes the carth with his trident ; the ...
... poet appears to put forth one of his highest efforts , and the description rises into the most awful magnificence . All nature appears in commotion , Jupiter thunders in the heavens ; Neptune strikes the carth with his trident ; the ...
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... poet concludes with per- sonifying the mountain under this figure , " Eructans viscera cum gemitu " . " belching up its bowels with a groan ; " which , by making the mountain resemble a sick or drunken per- son , degrades the majesty of ...
... poet concludes with per- sonifying the mountain under this figure , " Eructans viscera cum gemitu " . " belching up its bowels with a groan ; " which , by making the mountain resemble a sick or drunken per- son , degrades the majesty of ...
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... poet or historian introduces in- to his work persons really speaking , and by words , which he puts into their mouths , represents the con- versation which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his art may be called imitative ; and ...
... poet or historian introduces in- to his work persons really speaking , and by words , which he puts into their mouths , represents the con- versation which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his art may be called imitative ; and ...
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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?