Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And, Particularly that Kind which is Proper for the PulpitFarrand, Mallory, & Company, 1810 - 174 sider |
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Side 12
... apostles , or the prophets , never speak of death , and the dust of the grave , to which all our pride and vanity must be reduced ? Does not the scrip- ture contain many affecting images of this im- portant truth ? Might he not have ...
... apostles , or the prophets , never speak of death , and the dust of the grave , to which all our pride and vanity must be reduced ? Does not the scrip- ture contain many affecting images of this im- portant truth ? Might he not have ...
Side 120
... , 1 , the church , the Mosaic law , the gospel ; of sacrifices ; of Moses and Aaron , and Mel- chisedec ; of the prophets and apostles : but there is not sufficient care taken to instruct the people 120 THE THIRD DIALOGUE. ...
... , 1 , the church , the Mosaic law , the gospel ; of sacrifices ; of Moses and Aaron , and Mel- chisedec ; of the prophets and apostles : but there is not sufficient care taken to instruct the people 120 THE THIRD DIALOGUE. ...
Side 123
... apostles the gift of speak- ing unknown tongues ? A. Undoubtedly and they even convey- ed that gift to great numbers of their illiter- ate converts . But as for the languages that the apostles had learnt in a natural way , we have ...
... apostles the gift of speak- ing unknown tongues ? A. Undoubtedly and they even convey- ed that gift to great numbers of their illiter- ate converts . But as for the languages that the apostles had learnt in a natural way , we have ...
Side 124
... that the torrent of his elo- quence must be perceived by the most unat- tentive reader . He adds , that in the apostle , wisdom did not seek after the beauty of language ; but that the beauties of language offered themselves 124.
... that the torrent of his elo- quence must be perceived by the most unat- tentive reader . He adds , that in the apostle , wisdom did not seek after the beauty of language ; but that the beauties of language offered themselves 124.
Side 126
... apostle use to condemn this art of persuasion that you would establish ? For my part , I freely own that at first I was glad when you censured all those affected ornaments of discourse that vain declaimers are so fond of : but the ...
... apostle use to condemn this art of persuasion that you would establish ? For my part , I freely own that at first I was glad when you censured all those affected ornaments of discourse that vain declaimers are so fond of : but the ...
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Side 69 - True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Side 18 - Thee, bold Longinus! all the Nine inspire, And bless their critic with a poet's fire: An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust, With warmth gives sentence, yet is always just; Whose own example strengthens all his laws; And is himself that great Sublime he draws.
Side 58 - ... unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable. A vile conceit in pompous words...
Side 109 - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
Side 117 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature! still divinely bright, One clear...
Side 136 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Side 75 - A work t* outlast immortal Rome design'd, Perhaps he seem'd above the Critic's law, And but from Nature's fountains scorn'd to draw: But when t' examine ev'ry part he came, Nature and Homer were, he found, the same.
Side 83 - The great rule, which the masters of rhetoric press much, can never be enough remembered ; that to make a man speak well, and pronounce with a right emphasis, he ought thoroughly to understand all that he says, be fully persuaded of it, and bring himself to have those affections, which he desires to infuse into others.
Side 160 - Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum: ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus.
Side 32 - Who can behold, without indignation, how many mists and uncertainties, these specious Tropes and Figures have brought on our Knowledg?