An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetorickHill and Moore, 1822 - 304 էջ |
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... effect every thing which is requisite , they may be of considerable use . If they cannot inspire genius , they can give it direction and assistance . If they cannot make barrenness fruitful , they can correct redundancy . They present ...
... effect every thing which is requisite , they may be of considerable use . If they cannot inspire genius , they can give it direction and assistance . If they cannot make barrenness fruitful , they can correct redundancy . They present ...
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... effects with the utmost speed and facility . A similar thought is magnificent- ly expanded in the following passage of Isaiah , ( chap . xxiv . 24 , 27 , 28 , ) — " Thus saith the Lord thy Re- deemer , and he that formed thee from the ...
... effects with the utmost speed and facility . A similar thought is magnificent- ly expanded in the following passage of Isaiah , ( chap . xxiv . 24 , 27 , 28 , ) — " Thus saith the Lord thy Re- deemer , and he that formed thee from the ...
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... effect of this idea will appear in a stronger light , from observing what figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity of taste , selected it for the principal circum- stance in his ...
... effect of this idea will appear in a stronger light , from observing what figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity of taste , selected it for the principal circum- stance in his ...
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... effect , that of recalling by external signs the ideas of things which we do not see . But though in this they coin- cide , yet it should be remembered , that the terms themselves are not synonimous ; that they import dif- ferent means ...
... effect , that of recalling by external signs the ideas of things which we do not see . But though in this they coin- cide , yet it should be remembered , that the terms themselves are not synonimous ; that they import dif- ferent means ...
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... effect with- out a cause . There must always have been some mo- tive which led to one name rather than another ; and we can suppose no motive which would more gener- ally operate upon men in their first effort toward lan- guage , than a ...
... effect with- out a cause . There must always have been some mo- tive which led to one name rather than another ; and we can suppose no motive which would more gener- ally operate upon men in their first effort toward lan- guage , than a ...
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An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric ...: To which are Added Questions ... Hugh Blair Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1822 |
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Էջ 180 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Էջ 21 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Էջ 68 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
Էջ 107 - 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. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that...
Էջ 66 - Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man; in. the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Էջ 21 - He made darkness his secret place; His pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Էջ 69 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Էջ 19 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On 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 23 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Էջ 109 - Entertain hopes, mirth rather than joy, variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.