An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 էջ |
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... possesses barren or erroneous sentiments . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Wri- ters have endeavoured to supply the want of matter by the graces of composition ...
... possesses barren or erroneous sentiments . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Wri- ters have endeavoured to supply the want of matter by the graces of composition ...
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... Taste must therefore be deeply founded in the hu- man mind . To have some discernment of Beau- ty is no less essential to man , than to possess the attributes of speech and reason . B Taste . Though no human being can be entirely devoid.
... Taste must therefore be deeply founded in the hu- man mind . To have some discernment of Beau- ty is no less essential to man , than to possess the attributes of speech and reason . B Taste . Though no human being can be entirely devoid.
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... possess ; they encompass a large and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give pleasure to taste and imagination ; whether ...
... possess ; they encompass a large and fruitful field on all sides , and have power to exhibit in great perfection , not a single set of objects only , but almost the whole of those which give pleasure to taste and imagination ; whether ...
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... possess . The tenses were contrived to mark the several distinctions of time . We commonly think of no more than its three great divisions , the past , the present , and the future ; and we might suppose , that , if verbs had been so ...
... possess . The tenses were contrived to mark the several distinctions of time . We commonly think of no more than its three great divisions , the past , the present , and the future ; and we might suppose , that , if verbs had been so ...
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... possesses much more flexibility than the French ; and seems to be on the whole the most perfect of all the modern dia- lects which have arisen out of the ruins of the ancient . Our language , though unequal to the Italian in flexibility ...
... possesses much more flexibility than the French ; and seems to be on the whole the most perfect of all the modern dia- lects which have arisen out of the ruins of the ancient . Our language , though unequal to the Italian in flexibility ...
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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...