Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 էջ |
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... truth of , and humbly adore the depth of . " Such phraseology ought on no occasion to be adopted : for , besides the want of dignity which arises from those monosyllables being placed at the close , the mind cannot avoid resting for a ...
... truth of , and humbly adore the depth of . " Such phraseology ought on no occasion to be adopted : for , besides the want of dignity which arises from those monosyllables being placed at the close , the mind cannot avoid resting for a ...
Էջ 104
... truth in the observation ; but whatever the cause may have been , the fact is undeniable . Accordingly elo- quence has by no means made advances in our own country equal to those of the sister arts ; and though we have seen many ...
... truth in the observation ; but whatever the cause may have been , the fact is undeniable . Accordingly elo- quence has by no means made advances in our own country equal to those of the sister arts ; and though we have seen many ...
Էջ 113
... truth and real knowledge , figurative speeches , and allusion in language , will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it . I confess , in discourses where we seek rather plea- sure and delight than information and ...
... truth and real knowledge , figurative speeches , and allusion in language , will hardly be admitted as an imperfection or abuse of it . I confess , in discourses where we seek rather plea- sure and delight than information and ...
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... truth and knowledge are concerned , cannot but be thought a great fault , either of the language or person that makes use of them . What , and how various they are , will be superfluous here to take notice ; the books of rhetoric ...
... truth and knowledge are concerned , cannot but be thought a great fault , either of the language or person that makes use of them . What , and how various they are , will be superfluous here to take notice ; the books of rhetoric ...
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... truth ; but it is not less certain that passion also possesses considerable in- fluence over our perceptions , opinions , and belief . When by any animating passion , whether pleasant or painful , an impulse is given to the imagination ...
... truth ; but it is not less certain that passion also possesses considerable in- fluence over our perceptions , opinions , and belief . When by any animating passion , whether pleasant or painful , an impulse is given to the imagination ...
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Էջ 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Էջ 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Էջ 132 - 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 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Էջ 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Էջ 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Էջ 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Էջ 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Էջ 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Էջ 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.