Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen1Thomas Kirk, 1807 - 384 páginas |
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... Greeks admired only chaste and simple beauties , and despised the Asiatic ostentation . In our own country , how many writings that were greatly extolled two or three centuries ago , are now fallen into entire disrepute and oblivion ...
... Greeks admired only chaste and simple beauties , and despised the Asiatic ostentation . In our own country , how many writings that were greatly extolled two or three centuries ago , are now fallen into entire disrepute and oblivion ...
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... Greeks , are simi- lar instances of great Sublimity added to the description of bat- tles , by the appearances of those celestial beings . In the XXth book , where all the gods take part in the engagement , according as they severally ...
... Greeks , are simi- lar instances of great Sublimity added to the description of bat- tles , by the appearances of those celestial beings . In the XXth book , where all the gods take part in the engagement , according as they severally ...
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... Greek orgovvμi ; as , strive , strength , strike , stripe , stress , struggle , stride , stretch strip , & c . Thr , implies forcible motion ; as throw , throb , thrust , through , threaten , thraldom . Wr , obloquy or distortion ; as ...
... Greek orgovvμi ; as , strive , strength , strike , stripe , stress , struggle , stride , stretch strip , & c . Thr , implies forcible motion ; as throw , throb , thrust , through , threaten , thraldom . Wr , obloquy or distortion ; as ...
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... Greek and Roman Languages , this musical and gesticulating pro- nunciation was retained in a very high degree ... Greeks and Ro- mans , was carried much farther than ours ; or that they spoke with more and stronger inflextions of voice ...
... Greek and Roman Languages , this musical and gesticulating pro- nunciation was retained in a very high degree ... Greeks and Ro- mans , was carried much farther than ours ; or that they spoke with more and stronger inflextions of voice ...
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... Greeks , it is well known , were still a more musical people than the Ro- mans , and carried their attention to tone and pronunciation much farther in every public exhibition . Aristotle , in his Poetics , considers the music of Tragedy ...
... Greeks , it is well known , were still a more musical people than the Ro- mans , and carried their attention to tone and pronunciation much farther in every public exhibition . Aristotle , in his Poetics , considers the music of Tragedy ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Addison admiration Æneid agreeable ancient appears Aristotle arrangement attention beauty called character Cicero circumstances colours comparison composition connexion considered Criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes Dionysius of Halicarnassus discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant Eloquence employed English English Language expression fancy figure Figures of Speech French frequent genius give grace Greek guage Hence ideas imagination imitation instance Isocrates kind Language Latin Lecture Lord Bolingbroke Lysias manner means Metaphor mind musical nations nature never objects observe occasion orator ornament particular passion period Perspicuity phrase plain pleasure poet poetry precise prepositions principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quintilian reason remark render resemblance rise Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments Shaftsbury shew signify Simplicity sort sound speak Speech strength Style Sublime substantive nouns Taste tence thing thought tion Tongue Tropes variety verbs Virgil whole words writing
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Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 44 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.