Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious Questions; and an Analysis of Each Lecture A. Mills ...J. Kay, jr., & Bro., 1833 - 549 páginas |
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... force of those expressions which they used , when they sought to persuade or to affect . They were early sensible of a beauty in discourse , and endeavoured to give it certain decorations , which experience had taught them it was ...
... force of those expressions which they used , when they sought to persuade or to affect . They were early sensible of a beauty in discourse , and endeavoured to give it certain decorations , which experience had taught them it was ...
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... force of these beauties has been so great as to overpower all censure , and to give the public a degree of satisfaction superior to the disgust arising from their blemishes . Shakspeare pleases , not by his bringing the transactions of ...
... force of these beauties has been so great as to overpower all censure , and to give the public a degree of satisfaction superior to the disgust arising from their blemishes . Shakspeare pleases , not by his bringing the transactions of ...
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... force of that mass of waters . Wherever space is concerned , it is clear that amplitude or greatness of extent , in one dimension or other , is necessary to grandeur . Remove all bounds from any ob- ject , and you presently render it ...
... force of that mass of waters . Wherever space is concerned , it is clear that amplitude or greatness of extent , in one dimension or other , is necessary to grandeur . Remove all bounds from any ob- ject , and you presently render it ...
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... force or power , whether accompanied with terror or not , whether employed in pro- tecting , or in alarming us , has a better title , than any thing that has yet been mentioned , to be the fundamental quality of the sublime ; as , after ...
... force or power , whether accompanied with terror or not , whether employed in pro- tecting , or in alarming us , has a better title , than any thing that has yet been mentioned , to be the fundamental quality of the sublime ; as , after ...
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... force . Among poets of more polished times we are to look for the graces of correct writing , for just proportion of parts , and skilfully conducted narration . In the midst of smiling scenery and pleasurable themes , the gay and the ...
... force . Among poets of more polished times we are to look for the graces of correct writing , for just proportion of parts , and skilfully conducted narration . In the midst of smiling scenery and pleasurable themes , the gay and the ...
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Página 40 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Página 466 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 218 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Página 180 - And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.
Página 165 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Página 44 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 188 - Whether the nymph shall break Diana's law, Or some frail China jar receive a flaw ; Or stain her honour, or her new brocade ; Forget her prayers, or miss a masquerade ; Or lose her heart, or necklace, at a ball ; Or whether Heaven has doom'd that Shock must fall.
Página 219 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.
Página 147 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Página 223 - 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. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.