An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 էջ |
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Hugh Blair. Pleasures of Taste . ry to the purpose of the present work , that all these be examined fully ; the pleasure , which we receive from discourse or writing , being the prin- cipal object of them . Our design is to give some ...
Hugh Blair. Pleasures of Taste . ry to the purpose of the present work , that all these be examined fully ; the pleasure , which we receive from discourse or writing , being the prin- cipal object of them . Our design is to give some ...
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... present to every reader of the Iliad frequent in- stances of sublime writing . The majesty of his warlike scenes is often heightened in a high degree by the introduction of the gods . In the twentieth book , where all the gods take part ...
... present to every reader of the Iliad frequent in- stances of sublime writing . The majesty of his warlike scenes is often heightened in a high degree by the introduction of the gods . In the twentieth book , where all the gods take part ...
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... present it is not necessary to pursue any farther the subject of the Pleasures of Taste . We have opened some of the general principles ; it is time now to employ them to our chief subject .. Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste . If it ...
... present it is not necessary to pursue any farther the subject of the Pleasures of Taste . We have opened some of the general principles ; it is time now to employ them to our chief subject .. Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste . If it ...
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... present occasions ; leaving them , as he did in other res- pects , to enlarge and improve it as their future necessities should require . Consequently , those rudiments of speech must have been poor and narrow ; and we are at liberty to ...
... present occasions ; leaving them , as he did in other res- pects , to enlarge and improve it as their future necessities should require . Consequently , those rudiments of speech must have been poor and narrow ; and we are at liberty to ...
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... present state of language . Words , as we now use them , taken in general , may be con- sidered as symbols , not imitations ; as arbitrary or instituted , not natural signs of ideas . But there can be no doubt , that language , the ...
... present state of language . Words , as we now use them , taken in general , may be con- sidered as symbols , not imitations ; as arbitrary or instituted , not natural signs of ideas . But there can be no doubt , that language , 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...