An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 páginas |
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... original . In reading , for instance , the Eneid of Virgil , a great part of our pleasure arises from the prop- er conduct of the plan or story ; from all the parts being joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
... original . In reading , for instance , the Eneid of Virgil , a great part of our pleasure arises from the prop- er conduct of the plan or story ; from all the parts being joined together with probability and due connexion ; from the ...
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... original , is highly animated and sublime . But , when the powers descending swell'd the fight , Then tumult rose , fierce rage , and pale affright . Now through the trembling shores Minerva calls , And now she thunders from the Grecian ...
... original , is highly animated and sublime . But , when the powers descending swell'd the fight , Then tumult rose , fierce rage , and pale affright . Now through the trembling shores Minerva calls , And now she thunders from the Grecian ...
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... original the shaking of his hair is the consequence of his nod , and makes a happy picturesque circum- stance in the description . The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to ...
... original the shaking of his hair is the consequence of his nod , and makes a happy picturesque circum- stance in the description . The boldness , freedom , and variety of our blank verse are infinitely more propitious than rhyme , to ...
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... original ideas of beauty or grandeur , which such objects themselves exhibited ; but even objects , which have neither beauty , nor grandeur ; nay , some , which are terrible or de- formed , give us pleasure in a secondary , or rep ...
... original ideas of beauty or grandeur , which such objects themselves exhibited ; but even objects , which have neither beauty , nor grandeur ; nay , some , which are terrible or de- formed , give us pleasure in a secondary , or rep ...
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... original . As far , however , as a poet or historian intro- duces into his work persons really speaking , and by words , which he puts into their mouths , rep- resents the conversation , which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his ...
... original . As far , however , as a poet or historian intro- duces into his work persons really speaking , and by words , which he puts into their mouths , rep- resents the conversation , which they might be supposed to hold ; so far his ...
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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.