An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 sider |
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Side 11
... Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which ...
... Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which ...
Side 12
... , were not first discovered by logical rea- soning and then applied to poetry ; but they were deducted from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . 12 CRITICISM . Criticism Genius Pleasures of Taste Sublimi- ty in Objects.
... , were not first discovered by logical rea- soning and then applied to poetry ; but they were deducted from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . 12 CRITICISM . Criticism Genius Pleasures of Taste Sublimi- ty in Objects.
Side 13
... Homer was acquainted with no system of the art of poetry . Guided by genius alone , he composed in verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , as no argument against the usefulness of criti- cism ...
... Homer was acquainted with no system of the art of poetry . Guided by genius alone , he composed in verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , as no argument against the usefulness of criti- cism ...
Side 21
... Homer acquainted with any system of the art of poetry ? 6. How then was he guided in writing his Il- iad ? 7. Is this any argument against the usefulness of criticism ? 8. Why is it not ? 9. Can rules supply the defect of genfus , or ...
... Homer acquainted with any system of the art of poetry ? 6. How then was he guided in writing his Il- iad ? 7. Is this any argument against the usefulness of criticism ? 8. Why is it not ? 9. Can rules supply the defect of genfus , or ...
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... Homer has in all ages been universally ad- mired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaf- fected simplicity which characterizes his man- ner . His descriptions of conflicting armies ; the ...
... Homer has in all ages been universally ad- mired for sublimity ; and he is indebted for much of his grandeur to that native and unaf- fected simplicity which characterizes his man- ner . His descriptions of conflicting armies ; the ...
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