An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 էջ |
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... regular bodies , their fondness for pictures and statues , and their warm at- tachment to whatever is new or astonishing . The most stupid peasants receive pleasure from tales and ballads , and are delighted with the beautiful ...
... regular bodies , their fondness for pictures and statues , and their warm at- tachment to whatever is new or astonishing . The most stupid peasants receive pleasure from tales and ballads , and are delighted with the beautiful ...
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... regular story , which all succeed- ing ages have admired . This however is no argument against the usefulness of Criticism . For since no hu- man genius is perfect , there is no writer , who may not receive assistance from critical ...
... regular story , which all succeed- ing ages have admired . This however is no argument against the usefulness of Criticism . For since no hu- man genius is perfect , there is no writer , who may not receive assistance from critical ...
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... regular inquiry into it was first attempted by Mr. Addison in his Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination . By him these Pleasures are ranged under three heads , Beauty , Grandeur , and Novelty . His speculations on this subject , if ...
... regular inquiry into it was first attempted by Mr. Addison in his Essay on the Pleasures of the Imagination . By him these Pleasures are ranged under three heads , Beauty , Grandeur , and Novelty . His speculations on this subject , if ...
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... regular and methodical , appear sublime . We see the limits on every side ; we feel ourselves confined ; there is no room for any considerable exertion of the mind . Though exact proportion of parts enters often into the beautiful ; it ...
... regular and methodical , appear sublime . We see the limits on every side ; we feel ourselves confined ; there is no room for any considerable exertion of the mind . Though exact proportion of parts enters often into the beautiful ; it ...
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... regular figure is meant one , which we perceive to be formed according to some certain , rule , and not ' left arbitrary or loose in the construc- tion of its parts . Thus a circle , a square , a triangle , or a hexagon , gives pleasure ...
... regular figure is meant one , which we perceive to be formed according to some certain , rule , and not ' left arbitrary or loose in the construc- tion of its parts . Thus a circle , a square , a triangle , or a hexagon , gives pleasure ...
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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?