An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 էջ |
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... kind or other of what is orderly , proportioned , grand , harmonious , new , or spright- ly . Nor does there prevail less generally a dis- relish of whatever is gross , disproportioned , dis- orderly , and discordant . In children the ...
... kind or other of what is orderly , proportioned , grand , harmonious , new , or spright- ly . Nor does there prevail less generally a dis- relish of whatever is gross , disproportioned , dis- orderly , and discordant . In children the ...
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... kind ; and of these they have only a weak and eonfused impression ; while in others Taste rises to an acute discernment , and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties . This inequality of Taste among men is to be ascribed ...
... kind ; and of these they have only a weak and eonfused impression ; while in others Taste rises to an acute discernment , and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties . This inequality of Taste among men is to be ascribed ...
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... kind the most pure and inno- cent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hearing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us any of those refined and delicate ...
... kind the most pure and inno- cent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hearing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us any of those refined and delicate ...
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Hugh Blair. Sublimity in Objects . All ideas of the solemn and awful kind , and even bordering on the terrible , tend greatly to assist the sublime ; such as darkness , solitude , and silence . The firmament , when filled with stars ...
Hugh Blair. Sublimity in Objects . All ideas of the solemn and awful kind , and even bordering on the terrible , tend greatly to assist the sublime ; such as darkness , solitude , and silence . The firmament , when filled with stars ...
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... kind , which we call sub- lime ; the description , however finely drawn , is not entitled to be placed under this class . - This excludes all objects , which are merely beautiful , gay or elegant . Besides , the object must not only in ...
... kind , which we call sub- lime ; the description , however finely drawn , is not entitled to be placed under this class . - This excludes all objects , which are merely beautiful , gay or elegant . Besides , the object must not only in ...
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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...