Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, المجلد 1Thomas Kirk, 1807 - 384 من الصفحات |
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... beginning his acquaintance with works of genius , the sentiment which attends them is obscure . and confused . He cannot point out the several excellencies or blemishes of a performance which he peruses ; he is at a loss on what to rest ...
... beginning his acquaintance with works of genius , the sentiment which attends them is obscure . and confused . He cannot point out the several excellencies or blemishes of a performance which he peruses ; he is at a loss on what to rest ...
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... beginnings from which it must have arisen , and upon the many and great obstacles which it must have encountered in its progress ; and you will find reason for the highest astonishment , on viewing the height which it has now attained ...
... beginnings from which it must have arisen , and upon the many and great obstacles which it must have encountered in its progress ; and you will find reason for the highest astonishment , on viewing the height which it has now attained ...
الصفحة 72
... beginnings of Speech . When more enlarged communication became necessary , and names began to be assigned to objects , in what manner can we suppose men to have proceeded in this assignation of names , or invention of words ...
... beginnings of Speech . When more enlarged communication became necessary , and names began to be assigned to objects , in what manner can we suppose men to have proceeded in this assignation of names , or invention of words ...
الصفحة 74
... beginning with Str , intimate violence force and energy , anal- ogous to the Greek orgovvμi ; as , strive , strength , strike , stripe , stress , struggle , stride , stretch strip , & c . Thr , implies forcible motion ; as throw , throb ...
... beginning with Str , intimate violence force and energy , anal- ogous to the Greek orgovvμi ; as , strive , strength , strike , stripe , stress , struggle , stride , stretch strip , & c . Thr , implies forcible motion ; as throw , throb ...
الصفحة 75
... beginnings , of Language , among every savage tribe . A second character of Language , in its early state , is drawn from the manner in which words were at first pronounced , or uttered , by men . Interjections , I shewed , or ...
... beginnings , of Language , among every savage tribe . A second character of Language , in its early state , is drawn from the manner in which words were at first pronounced , or uttered , by men . Interjections , I shewed , or ...
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الصفحة 220 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt : Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
الصفحة 238 - 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 44 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
الصفحة 238 - 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 44 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
الصفحة 238 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house : but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the 2S2 THE MAN-GOD.
الصفحة 333 - I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion: but for my own part, I would rather look upon a tree in all its luxuriancy and diffusion of boughs and branches, than when it is thus cut and trimmed into a mathematical figure...
الصفحة 215 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
الصفحة 153 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.n This is altogether careless writing.
الصفحة 173 - Homer was the greater genius, Virgil the better artist. In one we most admire the man, in the other the work. Homer hurries and transports us with a commanding impetuosity, Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty.