Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. BlairConner, 1832 - 360 էջ |
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... employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted , instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such imposture can never maintain its ground long knowledge ...
... employed to disguise or to supply the want of matter and the temporary applause of the ignorant has been courted , instead of the lasting approbation of the discerning . But such imposture can never maintain its ground long knowledge ...
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... employ- ed , after a proper manner , in the study of composition , we are cultivating reason itself . True rhetoric , and sound logic , ) are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and express- ing our thoughts with propriety ...
... employ- ed , after a proper manner , in the study of composition , we are cultivating reason itself . True rhetoric , and sound logic , ) are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and express- ing our thoughts with propriety ...
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... employ ourselves in distinguishing accurately between the specious and the solid , between affected and natural ornament , must certainly improve us not a little in the most valuable part of all philosophy - the philosophy of human ...
... employ ourselves in distinguishing accurately between the specious and the solid , between affected and natural ornament , must certainly improve us not a little in the most valuable part of all philosophy - the philosophy of human ...
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... employed in protecting or in alarming us , has a better title , than any thing that has yet been mentioned , to be considered the fun- damental quality of the sublime . There appears to be no sublime object , into the idea of which ...
... employed in protecting or in alarming us , has a better title , than any thing that has yet been mentioned , to be considered the fun- damental quality of the sublime . There appears to be no sublime object , into the idea of which ...
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... employed to signify ; but a statue or a picture has a natural likeness to the original . Hence , to describe a thing is to tell what it is ; but to imitate it , is to show what it is . As far , however , as the poet introduces into his ...
... employed to signify ; but a statue or a picture has a natural likeness to the original . Hence , to describe a thing is to tell what it is ; but to imitate it , is to show what it is . As far , however , as the poet introduces into his ...
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Էջ 298 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Էջ 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Էջ 301 - 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 297 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit...
Էջ 101 - I shall detain you 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 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Էջ 126 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Էջ 168 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Էջ 304 - 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 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.