Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... rest of the liberal arts . It embraces them all within its circle , and recommends them to the highest regard . The first care of all such as wish either to write with reputation , or to speak in public so as to command attention , must ...
... rest of the liberal arts . It embraces them all within its circle , and recommends them to the highest regard . The first care of all such as wish either to write with reputation , or to speak in public so as to command attention , must ...
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... rest his judgment ; all that can be expected is , that he should tell in general whether he be pleased or not . But allow him more experience in works of this kind , and his Taste becomes by degrees more exact and enlightened . He ...
... rest his judgment ; all that can be expected is , that he should tell in general whether he be pleased or not . But allow him more experience in works of this kind , and his Taste becomes by degrees more exact and enlightened . He ...
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... rest . It is not in matters of Taste , as in ques- tions of mere reason , where there is but one conclu- sion that can be true , and all the rest are erroneous . Truth , which is the object of reason , is one ; Beauty , which is the ...
... rest . It is not in matters of Taste , as in ques- tions of mere reason , where there is but one conclu- sion that can be true , and all the rest are erroneous . Truth , which is the object of reason , is one ; Beauty , which is the ...
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... rest . To the sense of mankind the ultimate appeal ' must ever lie ; in all works of Taste . If any one should main- tain that sugar was bitter and tobacco was sweet , no reasonings could avail to prove it . The Taste of such a person ...
... rest . To the sense of mankind the ultimate appeal ' must ever lie ; in all works of Taste . If any one should main- tain that sugar was bitter and tobacco was sweet , no reasonings could avail to prove it . The Taste of such a person ...
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... rest , is what has been found from experience to please man- kind universally . Upon this ground we prefer a simple and natural , to an artificial and affected style ; a regular and well - connected story , to loose and scat- tered ...
... rest , is what has been found from experience to please man- kind universally . Upon this ground we prefer a simple and natural , to an artificial and affected style ; a regular and well - connected story , to loose and scat- tered ...
Common terms and phrases
Addison admiration advantage agreeable ancient appears Aristotle arrangement attention beautiful called character Cicero circumstances colours composition considered Criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant Eloquence employed English English Language expression fancy Figures Figures of Speech French frequent genius give grace Greek guage harmony Hence ideas imagination imitation instance Isocrates kind Language Latin Lecture Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury Lysias manner means ment Metaphor mind musical nations nature never objects observe occasion Orator ornament particular passion period Perspicuity pleasure poet poetry precise principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quinctilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signify Simplicity Sir William Temple sort sound speak Speech strength Style Sublime substantive nouns Taste tence thing thought Tongue Tropes variety verbs whole words writing
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Էջ 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Էջ 330 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
Էջ 411 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Էջ 331 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
Էջ 57 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
Էջ 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Էջ 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Էջ 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
Էջ 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Էջ 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.