An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 páginas |
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... reason . to Though no human being can be entirely de- void of this faculty , yet it is possessed in very different degrees . In some men only faint glim- merings of taste are visible ; the beauties , which they relish are of the ...
... reason . to Though no human being can be entirely de- void of this faculty , yet it is possessed in very different degrees . In some men only faint glim- merings of taste are visible ; the beauties , which they relish are of the ...
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... reason ; and the more reason enables us to discover such propriety in the conduct , the greater will be our pleasure . The constituents of taste , when brought to its most perfect state , are two , delicacy and cor- rectness .翦 ...
... reason ; and the more reason enables us to discover such propriety in the conduct , the greater will be our pleasure . The constituents of taste , when brought to its most perfect state , are two , delicacy and cor- rectness .翦 ...
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... reason . Their sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of taste ; it is found by experience ...
... reason . Their sound and natural state is finally determined by comparing them with the general taste of mankind . Let men declaim as much as they please , concerning the caprice and uncertainty of taste ; it is found by experience ...
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... reason , we can assign , is extremely imperfect . Those first principles of internal sensation , nature appears to have studi- ously concealed . It is some consolation , however , that , although the efficient cause is obscure , the ...
... reason , we can assign , is extremely imperfect . Those first principles of internal sensation , nature appears to have studi- ously concealed . It is some consolation , however , that , although the efficient cause is obscure , the ...
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... reason Jupiter is represented , as shaking his locks , before he gives the nod ; " Shakes his ambrosial curls , and gives the nod ; " which is trifling and insignificant ; whereas in the original the shaking of his hair is the ...
... reason Jupiter is represented , as shaking his locks , before he gives the nod ; " Shakes his ambrosial curls , and gives the nod ; " which is trifling and insignificant ; whereas in the original the shaking of his hair is the ...
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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.