An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 من الصفحات |
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... composition ; and courted the temporary ap- plause of the ignorant instead of the lasting approba- tion of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be ...
... composition ; and courted the temporary ap- plause of the ignorant instead of the lasting approba- tion of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be ...
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... composition , what interests the imagina- tion , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being properly struck , the human heart s so made , as to accord to it . Hence the ...
... composition , what interests the imagina- tion , and touches the heart , gives pleasure to all ages and nations . There is a certain string , which being properly struck , the human heart s so made , as to accord to it . Hence the ...
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... composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , po- etry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice ...
... composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , po- etry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice ...
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... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Æneid an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the imitation of a ...
... composition . But in narrative or descriptive works it cannot with propriety be so called . Who , for example , would call Virgil's description of a tempest in the first Æneid an imitation of a storm ? If we heard of the imitation of a ...
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... composition deviate widely from the primitive character of their roots , and lose all resemblance in sound of the things signified . This is the present state of language . Words , as we now use them , taken in general , may be ...
... composition deviate widely from the primitive character of their roots , and lose all resemblance in sound of the things signified . This is the present state of language . Words , as we now use them , taken in general , may be ...
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الصفحة 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
الصفحة 201 - 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.
الصفحة 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
الصفحة 24 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
الصفحة 214 - 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, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
الصفحة 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
الصفحة 101 - 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.
الصفحة 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
الصفحة 98 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
الصفحة 125 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.