An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 páginas |
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... kind or other ; of what is orderly , proportioned , grand , harmonious , new , or sprightly . Nor does there prevail less gen- erally a disrelish of whatever is gross , dispropor- tioned , disorderly , and discordant . In children the ...
... kind or other ; of what is orderly , proportioned , grand , harmonious , new , or sprightly . Nor does there prevail less gen- erally a disrelish of whatever is gross , dispropor- tioned , disorderly , and discordant . In children the ...
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... kind ; and of these they have only a weak and confused impression ; while in others , taste rises to an acute discern- ment , and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties . This inequality of taste among men is to be ascribed ...
... kind ; and of these they have only a weak and confused impression ; while in others , taste rises to an acute discern- ment , and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties . This inequality of taste among men is to be ascribed ...
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... kind the most pure and inno cent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hearing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us any of those refined and delicate ...
... kind the most pure and inno cent . The necessary purposes of life might have been answered , though our senses of seeing and hearing had only served to distinguish external objects , without giving us any of those refined and delicate ...
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... kind , and even bordering on the terrible , tend greatly to assist the sublime ; such as darkness , solitude , and silence . The firmament , when filled with stars , scattered in infinite numbers and with splen- did profusion , strikes ...
... kind , and even bordering on the terrible , tend greatly to assist the sublime ; such as darkness , solitude , and silence . The firmament , when filled with stars , scattered in infinite numbers and with splen- did profusion , strikes ...
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... kind , which we call sublime ; the description , however finely drawn , is not en- titled to be placed under this class . This ex- cludes all objects , which are merely beautiful , gay , or elegant . Beside , the object must not on- ly ...
... kind , which we call sublime ; the description , however finely drawn , is not en- titled to be placed under this class . This ex- cludes all objects , which are merely beautiful , gay , or elegant . Beside , the object must not on- ly ...
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Página 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Página 201 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Página 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Página 24 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Página 214 - 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 a gloom, 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.
Página 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 101 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Página 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
Página 98 - 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.
Página 125 - 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.