An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricLewis Whittemore, 1823 - 306 sider |
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... sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of taste ; it is found by experience , that there are ...
... sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of taste ; it is found by experience , that there are ...
Side 19
... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , is at any time grand and awful ; but , when heard amid the silence and stillness of night , they become doubly so . Darkness is very generally applied for adding sublimity to ...
... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , is at any time grand and awful ; but , when heard amid the silence and stillness of night , they become doubly so . Darkness is very generally applied for adding sublimity to ...
Side 37
... sound . Hence the charm of poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule , open likewise a variety of pleas- ures to taste , altogether different from any that haye yet been ...
... sound . Hence the charm of poetical numbers ; and even of the concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , humour , and ridicule , open likewise a variety of pleas- ures to taste , altogether different from any that haye yet been ...
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... such a condition , how could any one set of sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of • their ideas ? Supposing that a few whom chance Origin and Progress of Language . 39 Origin and Progress of Language.
... such a condition , how could any one set of sounds or words be universally agreed on , as the signs of • their ideas ? Supposing that a few whom chance Origin and Progress of Language . 39 Origin and Progress of Language.
Side 41
... sound of the name given to it . As a painter , who would represent grass , must employ a green colour ; so in the infancy of language one , giving name to any thing harsh or boisterous , would of course employ a harsh or boisterous sound ...
... sound of the name given to it . As a painter , who would represent grass , must employ a green colour ; so in the infancy of language one , giving name to any thing harsh or boisterous , would of course employ a harsh or boisterous sound ...
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