An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricT. Elwood Zell, 1854 - 230 էջ |
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... Pleasures of Taste . - Sublimity in Objects Sublimity in Writing Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste Origin and Progress of Language Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing Structure of Language . English Tongue . Style ...
... Pleasures of Taste . - Sublimity in Objects Sublimity in Writing Beauty and other Pleasures of Taste Origin and Progress of Language Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing Structure of Language . English Tongue . Style ...
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... pleasure or pain from the beauties or deformities of nature and of a 99 It is a faculty common in some degree to all men . Through the circle of human nature , nothing is more general , than the relish of beauty of one kind or other ...
... pleasure or pain from the beauties or deformities of nature and of a 99 It is a faculty common in some degree to all men . Through the circle of human nature , nothing is more general , than the relish of beauty of one kind or other ...
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... pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge whether they be properly executed belongs to the understanding , which com- pares the copy with the original . In reading , for ...
... pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge whether they be properly executed belongs to the understanding , which com- pares the copy with the original . In reading , for ...
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... pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being pro- perly struck , the human heart is so made as to accord to it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most im- proved ... PLEASURES OF TASTE . 16 ' Taste .
... pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being pro- perly struck , the human heart is so made as to accord to it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most im- proved ... PLEASURES OF TASTE . 16 ' Taste .
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Hugh Blair. CRITICISM . - GENIUS . - PLEASURES OF TASTE . SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS . TRUE criticism is the application of taste and of good sense , to the several fine arts . Its design is to ... Pleasures of Taste -Sublimity in Objects.
Hugh Blair. CRITICISM . - GENIUS . - PLEASURES OF TASTE . SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS . TRUE criticism is the application of taste and of good sense , to the several fine arts . Its design is to ... Pleasures of Taste -Sublimity in Objects.
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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.