Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, المجلد 1A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1815 - 544 من الصفحات |
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... requires a proper acquaintance with the rest of the liberal arts . It embraces them all within its circle , and recommends them to the highest regard . The first care of all such as wish either to write with reputation , or to speak in ...
... requires a proper acquaintance with the rest of the liberal arts . It embraces them all within its circle , and recommends them to the highest regard . The first care of all such as wish either to write with reputation , or to speak in ...
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... requires them to examine the polish of bodies , than it is in others . They who deal in microscopical observations , or are accustomed to engrave on precious stones , acquire surprising accu- racy of sight in discerning the minutest ...
... requires them to examine the polish of bodies , than it is in others . They who deal in microscopical observations , or are accustomed to engrave on precious stones , acquire surprising accu- racy of sight in discerning the minutest ...
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... requires experience , and improves by slower degrees , hath not yet attained its full growth . Homer and Shakespeare are proofs of what I now assert ; in whose admirable writings are found instances of rudeness and indelicacy , which ...
... requires experience , and improves by slower degrees , hath not yet attained its full growth . Homer and Shakespeare are proofs of what I now assert ; in whose admirable writings are found instances of rudeness and indelicacy , which ...
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Hugh Blair. sublime , than to any other species whatever ; because it requires less the assistance of ornament . From this it appears , that clear and precise ideas on this head are not to be expected from that writer . I would not ...
Hugh Blair. sublime , than to any other species whatever ; because it requires less the assistance of ornament . From this it appears , that clear and precise ideas on this head are not to be expected from that writer . I would not ...
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... requires to be supported ; and if , in the midst of its efforts , you desert it unexpectedly , down it comes with a painful shock . When Milton , in his battle of the * The father of the gods his glory shrouds , Involv'd in tempests ...
... requires to be supported ; and if , in the midst of its efforts , you desert it unexpectedly , down it comes with a painful shock . When Milton , in his battle of the * The father of the gods his glory shrouds , Involv'd in tempests ...
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الصفحة 453 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
الصفحة 171 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
الصفحة 26 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
الصفحة 171 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds: I will be like the most High.
الصفحة 456 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
الصفحة 451 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
الصفحة 171 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
الصفحة 213 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
الصفحة 474 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
الصفحة 219 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.