An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 էջ |
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... imitation ; they point out the principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to en- lighten Taste , and to conduct genius from unnatural deviations into its proper ...
... imitation ; they point out the principal beauties which ought to be studied , and the chief faults which ought to be avoided ; and consequently tend to en- lighten Taste , and to conduct genius from unnatural deviations into its proper ...
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... imitations of nature ; repre- . sentations of the characters , actions , or man- ners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations is found- ed on mere Taste ; but to judge , whether they be properly ...
... imitations of nature ; repre- . sentations of the characters , actions , or man- ners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations is found- ed on mere Taste ; but to judge , whether they be properly ...
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... imitation of nature . Critical rules are intended chiefly to point out the faults which ought to be avoided , We must be indebted to nature for the production of eminent beauties . GENIUS is a word , which in common accepta- tion ...
... imitation of nature . Critical rules are intended chiefly to point out the faults which ought to be avoided , We must be indebted to nature for the production of eminent beauties . GENIUS is a word , which in common accepta- tion ...
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... - nation , as they are generally called , whether af- forded us by natural objects , or by imitations and descriptions of them . It is not however necessa- Pleasures of Taste . ry to the purpose of the BLAIR'S LECTURES . 15.
... - nation , as they are generally called , whether af- forded us by natural objects , or by imitations and descriptions of them . It is not however necessa- Pleasures of Taste . ry to the purpose of the BLAIR'S LECTURES . 15.
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... Imitation is another source of Pleasure to Taste . This gives rise to what Addison terms the Secondary Pleasures of Imagination , which form a very extensive class . For all imitation affords some Pleasure to the mind ; not only the ...
... Imitation is another source of Pleasure to Taste . This gives rise to what Addison terms the Secondary Pleasures of Imagination , which form a very extensive class . For all imitation affords some Pleasure to the mind ; not only the ...
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Էջ 109 - God is not a man, that he should lie ; " nor the Son of Man, that he should repent.
Էջ 222 - 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 218 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Էջ 103 - 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 103 - 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...
Էջ 222 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 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.
Էջ 221 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Էջ 24 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : Even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Էջ 179 - Aonian maids, Delight no more; — O thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son!
Էջ 27 - 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...