Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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الصفحة 57
... 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 ; not of the Sublime in particu- lar . For of these five heads , only the two first ...
... 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 ; not of the Sublime in particu- lar . For of these five heads , only the two first ...
الصفحة 89
... musical sound . Hence the delight of poetical numbers ; and even of the more concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , Humour , and Ridicule , likewise open a variety of Pleasures to Taste , quite distinct from any that we have yet ...
... musical sound . Hence the delight of poetical numbers ; and even of the more concealed and looser measures of prose . Wit , Humour , and Ridicule , likewise open a variety of Pleasures to Taste , quite distinct from any that we have yet ...
الصفحة 105
... musical sounds : and hence is formed , what we call , the Prosody of a Language . It is remarkable , and deserves attention , that both in the Greek and Roman Languages , this musical and gesticulating pronunciation was retained in a ...
... musical sounds : and hence is formed , what we call , the Prosody of a Language . It is remarkable , and deserves attention , that both in the Greek and Roman Languages , this musical and gesticulating pronunciation was retained in a ...
الصفحة 106
... musical people than the Romans , and carried their attention to tone and pronunciation much farther in every public exhibition . Aristotle , in his Poëtics , consi- ders the music of Tragedy as one of its chief and most essential parts ...
... musical people than the Romans , and carried their attention to tone and pronunciation much farther in every public exhibition . Aristotle , in his Poëtics , consi- ders the music of Tragedy as one of its chief and most essential parts ...
الصفحة 108
... Musical pronunciation and expressive gesture are , to this day , the distinction of Italy . From the pronunciation of Language , let us pro- ceed , in the third place , to consider the Style of Language , in its most early state , and ...
... Musical pronunciation and expressive gesture are , to this day , the distinction of Italy . From the pronunciation of Language , let us pro- ceed , in the third place , to consider the Style of Language , in its most early state , and ...
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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.