Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. BlairConner, 1832 - 360 من الصفحات |
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... sound logic , ) are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and express- ing our thoughts with propriety , teaches us to think as well as to speak accurately ; for by putting our sentiments into words , we always conceive them more ...
... sound logic , ) are very nearly allied . The study of arranging and express- ing our thoughts with propriety , teaches us to think as well as to speak accurately ; for by putting our sentiments into words , we always conceive them more ...
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... sound criticism is , in truth , one of the most improving employments of the understanding . To ap- ply the principles of good sense to composition and discourse ; to examine what is beautiful , and why it is so ; to employ ourselves in ...
... sound criticism is , in truth , one of the most improving employments of the understanding . To ap- ply the principles of good sense to composition and discourse ; to examine what is beautiful , and why it is so ; to employ ourselves in ...
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... sound head , so likewise a good heart is a very material requisite to just taste . The moral beauties are not only themselves superior to all others , but they exert an influence , either more near or more remote , on a great variety of ...
... sound head , so likewise a good heart is a very material requisite to just taste . The moral beauties are not only themselves superior to all others , but they exert an influence , either more near or more remote , on a great variety of ...
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... sound and natural state is ultimately determined , by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and the uncertainty of taste , it is found , by experience , that ...
... sound and natural state is ultimately determined , by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and the uncertainty of taste , it is found , by experience , that ...
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... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , are , at any time , grand ; but when heard amid the silence and stillness of the night , they become doubly so . Darkness is very commonly applied for adding sublimity to all ...
... sound of a great bell , or the striking of a great clock , are , at any time , grand ; but when heard amid the silence and stillness of the night , they become doubly so . Darkness is very commonly applied for adding sublimity to all ...
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الصفحة 298 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
الصفحة 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
الصفحة 301 - 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 297 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit...
الصفحة 101 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
الصفحة 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
الصفحة 126 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
الصفحة 168 - 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.
الصفحة 304 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
الصفحة 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.