An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 sider |
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Side 14
... verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , is no argu- ment against the usefulness of criticism . For since no human genius is perfect , there is no writer , who may not receive assistance from ...
... verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , is no argu- ment against the usefulness of criticism . For since no human genius is perfect , there is no writer , who may not receive assistance from ...
Side 27
... verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an author , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of Paradise ...
... verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to all kinds of sublime poetry . The ful- lest proof of this is afforded by Milton ; an author , whose genius led him peculiarly to the sublime . The first and second books of Paradise ...
Side 49
... verses this order . He begins with the object ; places that first , which was the exciting idea in the speaker's mind , and ends with the speaker and his action . " Tantam mansuetudinem , tam inusita tam inauditamque clementiam ...
... verses this order . He begins with the object ; places that first , which was the exciting idea in the speaker's mind , and ends with the speaker and his action . " Tantam mansuetudinem , tam inusita tam inauditamque clementiam ...
Side 94
... verses : Wo to her stubborn heart ; if once mine come Into the self - same room , " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado , shot into a magazine . Then shall love keep the ashes and torn parts Of both our broken hearts ...
... verses : Wo to her stubborn heart ; if once mine come Into the self - same room , " Twill tear and blow up all within , Like a grenado , shot into a magazine . Then shall love keep the ashes and torn parts Of both our broken hearts ...
Side 175
... verse , there is a pecu- liar difficulty in making the pauses with proprie- ty . There are two kinds of pauses , which be- long to the music of verse ; one at the end of a line , and the other in the middle of it . Rhyme always renders ...
... verse , there is a pecu- liar difficulty in making the pauses with proprie- ty . There are two kinds of pauses , which be- long to the music of verse ; one at the end of a line , and the other in the middle of it . Rhyme always renders ...
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Side 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Side 201 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Side 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Side 24 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Side 214 - 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 a gloom, 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.
Side 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Side 101 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Side 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
Side 98 - 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.
Side 125 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.