An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - 312 sider |
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... called , whe- ther afforded us by natural objects , or by imitations and descriptions of them . It is not however necessary to the purpose of the present work , that all these be exa- mined fully ; the pleasure , which we receive from ...
... called , whe- ther afforded us by natural objects , or by imitations and descriptions of them . It is not however necessary to the purpose of the present work , that all these be exa- mined fully ; the pleasure , which we receive from ...
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... called upon the Lord ; he heard my voice out " of his temple , and my cry came before him . Then " the earth_shook and trembled ; the foundations of " the hills were moved ; because he was wroth . He " bowed the heavens , and came down ...
... called upon the Lord ; he heard my voice out " of his temple , and my cry came before him . Then " the earth_shook and trembled ; the foundations of " the hills were moved ; because he was wroth . He " bowed the heavens , and came down ...
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... called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation whatever to the true Sublime . Writers are apt to im agine that splendid words , accumulated epithets , and a certain swelling kind of expression , by ...
... called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation whatever to the true Sublime . Writers are apt to im agine that splendid words , accumulated epithets , and a certain swelling kind of expression , by ...
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... called the sublime style : " The Sovereign . " Arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a single " word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boi- leau justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degraded ...
... called the sublime style : " The Sovereign . " Arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a single " word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boi- leau justly observed , the style is indeed raised , but the thought is degraded ...
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... called imitative ; and this is the case in all dramatic composition . But in narrative or de- scriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Eneid an ...
... called imitative ; and this is the case in all dramatic composition . But in narrative or de- scriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Eneid an ...
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abounds action admits agreeable ancient appear arguments Aristotle attention beautiful blank verse characters Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed Eneid English epic poem epic poetry excel excite exhibit expression fancy figure frequently genius give grace grandeur Greek guage hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced ject kind language Livy Lucan Lusiad lyric poetry manner metaphor Milton mind modern moral motion narration nature never objects observed orator ornament painting Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasure poet poetical poetry proper propriety public speaking racters render requisite resemblance ridicule rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity Sophocles sound speaker species speech spirit strength strong style sublime syllable Tacitus Taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tragedy unity variety verse Virgil voice words writing
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Side 248 - 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...
Side 249 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Side 248 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Side 252 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Side 233 - 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 96 - pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in" knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be seen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure " none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His, " own reason he holds to be the certain measure of truth ;and «' his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Side 118 - 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 253 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Side 205 - 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...
Side 119 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the 'first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?