Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 4
... thought " What harm a wind too great might do at sea . " I should not see the sandy hour - glass run , " But I should think of shallows and of flats ; " And see my wealthy Arg'sie dock'd in sand . " Should I go to church , " And see the ...
... thought " What harm a wind too great might do at sea . " I should not see the sandy hour - glass run , " But I should think of shallows and of flats ; " And see my wealthy Arg'sie dock'd in sand . " Should I go to church , " And see the ...
Side 5
... thought of the war in- troduced the thought of the delivering up of the king to his enemies ; the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ ; and that again the thought of the thirty pence which was the price ...
... thought of the war in- troduced the thought of the delivering up of the king to his enemies ; the thought of that brought in the thought of the delivering up of Christ ; and that again the thought of the thirty pence which was the price ...
Side 26
... thoughts and al- lusions always struck an engaged his hearers . I have seen , in the midst of a grave debate , the whole ... thought was so unequivo- cally the attribute If however novelty is so powerful an instru- ment in the hands of ...
... thoughts and al- lusions always struck an engaged his hearers . I have seen , in the midst of a grave debate , the whole ... thought was so unequivo- cally the attribute If however novelty is so powerful an instru- ment in the hands of ...
Side 30
... thought by swell- ing out to all eternity : an object unpropor- tioned to our capacity , as is thy being , O thou antient cause ! Older than time , yet young with fresh eternity ! " In vain we try to fathom the abyss of 30 THE SUBLIME .
... thought by swell- ing out to all eternity : an object unpropor- tioned to our capacity , as is thy being , O thou antient cause ! Older than time , yet young with fresh eternity ! " In vain we try to fathom the abyss of 30 THE SUBLIME .
Side 33
... thought- " Victrix causa Diis placuit , sed victa Catoni . ” ' That species of the sublime , which arises principally from the adjuncts and circum stances , is so frequently mixed with that which is produced by the greatness and dignity ...
... thought- " Victrix causa Diis placuit , sed victa Catoni . ” ' That species of the sublime , which arises principally from the adjuncts and circum stances , is so frequently mixed with that which is produced by the greatness and dignity ...
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3dly 4thly admire afford allegory animated antient appears argument arrangement beautiful Blair book of Job called catachresis Cicero circumstances common comparison composition conclude correct critic DEAR JOHN Demosthenes didactic discourse divine effect elegant eloquence example excellence excited exordium expression fancy figurative language frequently genius Gibbon guage harmony hearers Hudibras humour ideas imagery imagination instance introduced irony Isocrates kind letter Livy Lord manner mean ment metaphors metonymy mind modern narrative nature neral never nosyllable object obscurity observed orations oratory ornament passion pathetic perhaps person Pitt plain pleasure poetry principal prose prosopopoeia reader remark resemblance respect rhetoric ridiculous rules scarcely senate sense sentence sermons Shakspeare short sion Sisera sometimes speak speaker species speech style sublime synecdoche taste tence thing thou thought tion trochee truth tural Turenne verb verse words writer young