Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryC. Dilly, 1790 - 1019 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة iii
... grace of novelty in the eyes of veterans , yet they will always be new to a riting generation . The greater part of this book , however , confiits of extracts from more modern books , and from fome which have not yet been used for the ...
... grace of novelty in the eyes of veterans , yet they will always be new to a riting generation . The greater part of this book , however , confiits of extracts from more modern books , and from fome which have not yet been used for the ...
الصفحة vii
... grace and force , fo as to please and to move his audience . Let us confider what is most important with respect to each of thefe .. In order to be fully and easily under- flood , the four chief requifites are , A due degree of loudnefs ...
... grace and force , fo as to please and to move his audience . Let us confider what is most important with respect to each of thefe .. In order to be fully and easily under- flood , the four chief requifites are , A due degree of loudnefs ...
الصفحة viii
... grace or beauty . Inftructions concerning this article , can be given by the living voice only . But there is one obfervation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which confifts of more ...
... grace or beauty . Inftructions concerning this article , can be given by the living voice only . But there is one obfervation , which it may not be improper here to make . In the English language , every word which confifts of more ...
الصفحة xi
... grace of discourse , muft depend on thefe , will appear from this fingle confide- ration ; that to almoft every fentiment we utter , more especially to every ftrong emo- tion , nature hath adapted fome peculiar tone of voice ; infomuch ...
... grace of discourse , muft depend on thefe , will appear from this fingle confide- ration ; that to almoft every fentiment we utter , more especially to every ftrong emo- tion , nature hath adapted fome peculiar tone of voice ; infomuch ...
الصفحة xxi
... Grace in Writing 474 259 505 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 475 260 A remarkable Inftance of Filial 140 Criterion of Tafte --- 477 Duty Pliny . 505 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 479 261 Continence of Scipio Africanus ...
... Grace in Writing 474 259 505 239 Style of Horace in his Moral Writings 475 260 A remarkable Inftance of Filial 140 Criterion of Tafte --- 477 Duty Pliny . 505 241 On Mr. Pope's Houfe at Binfield 479 261 Continence of Scipio Africanus ...
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الصفحة 279 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
الصفحة 251 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come...
الصفحة 266 - PREVENT us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
الصفحة 282 - GRANT to us, Lord, we beseech thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as be rightful; that we, who cannot do any thing that is good without thee, may by thee be enabled to live according to thy will; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
الصفحة 437 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
الصفحة 434 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatic poetry with the world open before him. The rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the public judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor critics of such authority as might restrain his extravagance.
الصفحة 282 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
الصفحة 1 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The Genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and...
الصفحة 285 - GRANT, O merciful God, that as thine holy Apostle Saint James, leaving his father and all that he had, without delay was obedient unto the calling of thy Son Jesus Christ, and followed him ; so we, forsaking all worldly and carnal affections, may be evermore ready to follow thy holy commandments, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
الصفحة 266 - Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day ; defend us in the same with thy mighty power, and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger ; but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance, to do always that is righteous in thy sight, through Jesus Christ our Lord.