Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And, Particularly that Kind which is Proper for the PulpitFarrand, Mallory, & Company, 1810 - 174 sider |
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... rhetoric , and very just rules laid down with great exactness : but they are oft- times too numerous , too dry ; and , in fine , rather curious than useful . Our author re- duces the essential rules of this wonderful art , to these ...
... rhetoric , and very just rules laid down with great exactness : but they are oft- times too numerous , too dry ; and , in fine , rather curious than useful . Our author re- duces the essential rules of this wonderful art , to these ...
Side 18
... Rhetoric ; which , though it be a very solid tract , is yet clogged with many dry precepts , that are rather curi- ous , than fit for practice ; so that it is more proper to point out the rules of art to such as are already eloquent ...
... Rhetoric ; which , though it be a very solid tract , is yet clogged with many dry precepts , that are rather curi- ous , than fit for practice ; so that it is more proper to point out the rules of art to such as are already eloquent ...
Side 20
... rhetoric by the rules of eloquence itself ; and by the sentiments of Plato , the most * el- oquent writer among the ancients . Will you be determined by him ? B. I will be determined by him , if he be in * Sed ego neque illis ...
... rhetoric by the rules of eloquence itself ; and by the sentiments of Plato , the most * el- oquent writer among the ancients . Will you be determined by him ? B. I will be determined by him , if he be in * Sed ego neque illis ...
Side 22
... rhetoric of a wicked man may be good in itself , though the use he makes of it be pernicious . Now we are talking of the nature and rules of eloquence ; not of the uses it should be applied to . Let us keep to the true state of the ...
... rhetoric of a wicked man may be good in itself , though the use he makes of it be pernicious . Now we are talking of the nature and rules of eloquence ; not of the uses it should be applied to . Let us keep to the true state of the ...
Side 32
... rhetoric gets them repute ; and this brings along with it that wealth they stand in need of . A. You yourself have already answered this pretence ; for , did you not say that it is not enough that one gains a livelihood , unless . he ...
... rhetoric gets them repute ; and this brings along with it that wealth they stand in need of . A. You yourself have already answered this pretence ; for , did you not say that it is not enough that one gains a livelihood , unless . he ...
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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?