An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricT. Elwood Zell, 1854 - 230 էջ |
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... human nature appears in its most uncultivated state , the savages have their ornaments of dress , their war and their death songs , their na- rangues and their orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human ...
... human nature appears in its most uncultivated state , the savages have their ornaments of dress , their war and their death songs , their na- rangues and their orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human ...
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... human mind . It is built upon sentiments and perceptions , which are inseparable from our nature ; and which generally operate with the same uniformity as our other intellectual principles . When these sentiments are perverted by ...
... human mind . It is built upon sentiments and perceptions , which are inseparable from our nature ; and which generally operate with the same uniformity as our other intellectual principles . When these sentiments are perverted by ...
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... human heart is so made as to accord to it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most im- proved nations of the earth , through a long series of ages , have concurred to bestow on some few works of genius ; such as the Iliad of ...
... human heart is so made as to accord to it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most im- proved nations of the earth , through a long series of ages , have concurred to bestow on some few works of genius ; such as the Iliad of ...
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... human genius is perfect , there is no writer who may not receive assistance from critical observa- tions upon the beauties and faults of those who have gone before him . No rules indeed can supply the de- fects of genius , or inspire it ...
... human genius is perfect , there is no writer who may not receive assistance from critical observa- tions upon the beauties and faults of those who have gone before him . No rules indeed can supply the de- fects of genius , or inspire it ...
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... human life ; and those too of a kind the most pure and innocent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hear- ing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us ...
... human life ; and those too of a kind the most pure and innocent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hear- ing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us ...
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Էջ 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Էջ 88 - 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 74 - 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 25 - 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 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Էջ 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Էջ 110 - 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. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Էջ 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Էջ 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.