Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... Language XV . Metaphor trophe XVI . Hyperbole - Personification — Apos- XVII . Comparison , Antithesis , Interrogation , Exclamation , and other Figures of Speech 328 LECT . Page XVIII . Figurative Language - General Cha-
... Language XV . Metaphor trophe XVI . Hyperbole - Personification — Apos- XVII . Comparison , Antithesis , Interrogation , Exclamation , and other Figures of Speech 328 LECT . Page XVIII . Figurative Language - General Cha-
الصفحة 43
... figures of bodies appear to us more beautiful than others . On inquiring farther , we find that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty which we discern in them but when we ...
... figures of bodies appear to us more beautiful than others . On inquiring farther , we find that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty which we discern in them but when we ...
الصفحة 57
... Figures ; the fourth , the use of Tropes and beau- tiful Expressions ; the fifth , Musical Structure and Arrangement of Words . This is the plan of one who was writing a treatise of rhetoric , or of the beauties of Writing in general ...
... Figures ; the fourth , the use of Tropes and beau- tiful Expressions ; the fifth , Musical Structure and Arrangement of Words . This is the plan of one who was writing a treatise of rhetoric , or of the beauties of Writing in general ...
الصفحة 72
... figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore's , who , through a monstrous perversity of taste , had chosen this for ... figures , and rhetorical assistances , that we can expect to produce it . 72 [ Lect . IV . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
... figure it makes in a poem of Sir Richard Blackmore's , who , through a monstrous perversity of taste , had chosen this for ... figures , and rhetorical assistances , that we can expect to produce it . 72 [ Lect . IV . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
الصفحة 79
... figures , I admit that this accounts in a satisfactory manner . But when we endeavour to apply this principle to beautiful objects of some other kind , as to Colour , for instance , or Motion , we shall soon find that it has no place ...
... figures , I admit that this accounts in a satisfactory manner . But when we endeavour to apply this principle to beautiful objects of some other kind , as to Colour , for instance , or Motion , we shall soon find that it has no place ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Addison admiration advantage agreeable ancient appears Aristotle arrangement attention beautiful called character Cicero circumstances colours composition considered Criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant Eloquence employed English English Language expression fancy Figures Figures of Speech French frequent genius give grace Greek guage harmony Hence ideas imagination imitation instance Isocrates kind Language Latin Lecture Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury Lysias manner means ment Metaphor mind musical nations nature never objects observe occasion Orator ornament particular passion period Perspicuity pleasure poet poetry precise principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quinctilian reason relation remarkable render resemblance rise Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signify Simplicity Sir William Temple sort sound speak Speech strength Style Sublime substantive nouns Taste tence thing thought Tongue Tropes variety verbs whole words writing
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الصفحة 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
الصفحة 330 - 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 411 - 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 331 - 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
الصفحة 57 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
الصفحة 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
الصفحة 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
الصفحة 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
الصفحة 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.