An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 من الصفحات |
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... proper Style 99 103 110 116 Critical examination of Mr. Addison's Style in No. 411 , of the Spectator 122 Eloquence - Origin of Eloquence - Grecian Elo- quence - Demosthenes 132 Roman Eloquence - Cicero - Modern Eloquence 138 Eloquence ...
... proper Style 99 103 110 116 Critical examination of Mr. Addison's Style in No. 411 , of the Spectator 122 Eloquence - Origin of Eloquence - Grecian Elo- quence - Demosthenes 132 Roman Eloquence - Cicero - Modern Eloquence 138 Eloquence ...
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... 240 Dramatic Poetry - Tragedy 243 255 257 English Tragedy 258 Comedy 260 Ancient Comedy 263 Spanish Comedy 265 French Comedy ib . English Comedy 260 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal 6 CONTENTS .
... 240 Dramatic Poetry - Tragedy 243 255 257 English Tragedy 258 Comedy 260 Ancient Comedy 263 Spanish Comedy 265 French Comedy ib . English Comedy 260 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal 6 CONTENTS .
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Hugh Blair. INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal arts is requisite to the study of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , To extend the knowledge of them must be the first care of those , who wish , either to write with ...
Hugh Blair. INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal arts is requisite to the study of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , To extend the knowledge of them must be the first care of those , who wish , either to write with ...
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... proper channel . Though they are incapable of producing great excellencies , they may at least serve to prevent considerable mistakes . In the education of youth , no object has appeared more important to wise men in every age , than to ...
... proper channel . Though they are incapable of producing great excellencies , they may at least serve to prevent considerable mistakes . In the education of youth , no object has appeared more important to wise men in every age , than to ...
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... proper classes ; assigns the principles , as far as they can be traced , whence their power of pleas- ing is derived ; and is pleased himself precisely in that degree , in which he ought , and no more . upon Taste is certainly not an ...
... proper classes ; assigns the principles , as far as they can be traced , whence their power of pleas- ing is derived ; and is pleased himself precisely in that degree , in which he ought , and no more . upon Taste is certainly not an ...
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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.