Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresEvert Duyckinck, 1817 - 500 էջ |
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... gives great encouragement to such a course of study as we are now proposing to pursue . Of the truth of this assertion we ... give in the same nation to those who have studied the liberal arts , above the rude and untaught vulgar . The ...
... gives great encouragement to such a course of study as we are now proposing to pursue . Of the truth of this assertion we ... give in the same nation to those who have studied the liberal arts , above the rude and untaught vulgar . The ...
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... give them the highest pleasure , and which therefore poetry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice may , in one age or country , give a temporary reputation to an indifferent poet or a bad artist ; but when foreigners , or when ...
... give them the highest pleasure , and which therefore poetry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice may , in one age or country , give a temporary reputation to an indifferent poet or a bad artist ; but when foreigners , or when ...
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... give very favourable ideas of the ge- nius of the author . For every good writer will be pleased to have his work examined by the principles of sound understanding and true taste . The declamations against criticism commonly proceed ...
... give very favourable ideas of the ge- nius of the author . For every good writer will be pleased to have his work examined by the principles of sound understanding and true taste . The declamations against criticism commonly proceed ...
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... give some openings into the pleasures of taste in general ; and to insist more particularly upon sublimity and beauty . We are far from having yet attained to any system concerning this subject . Mr Addison was the first who attempted a ...
... give some openings into the pleasures of taste in general ; and to insist more particularly upon sublimity and beauty . We are far from having yet attained to any system concerning this subject . Mr Addison was the first who attempted a ...
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... Give me , ye great tremendous powers ! to tell + Of scenes and wonders in the depths of hell ; Give me your mighty secrets to display , From those black realms of darkness to the day . PITT . Obscure they went ; through dreary shades ...
... Give me , ye great tremendous powers ! to tell + Of scenes and wonders in the depths of hell ; Give me your mighty secrets to display , From those black realms of darkness to the day . PITT . Obscure they went ; through dreary shades ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To Which Are Added, Copious ... Hugh Blair, Dr Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2015 |
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Addison admiration admit advantage Æneid agreeable ancient appears Aristotle attention beauty called character Cicero circumstances comedy composition considered criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant eloquence employed English English language epic epic poetry expression fancy figures French frequently genius give grace Greek hearers Hence Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance Isocrates Julius Cæsar kind language Latin lecture Lord Shaftesbury manner means metaphor mind nature never objects observe occasion orator ornament particular passion peculiar person perspicuity plain pleasure poem poet poetical poetry precision principles proper propriety prose public speaking Quintilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule scene sense sensible sentence sentiments shew simplicity sort sound speaker species speech strength style sublime Tacitus taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tongue tragedy tropes variety verbs verse Virgil whole words writing
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Էջ 422 - 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 418 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Էջ 423 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Էջ 121 - 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 206 - 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 157 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Էջ 43 - God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off...
Էջ 169 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Էջ 418 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Էջ 168 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...