Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. BlairConner, 1832 - 360 páginas |
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... tragedies , abound with it . We have treated thus fully of the sublime , because it is so capital an excellency in fine writing , and because clear and precise ideas on this head , are seldom to be met with in critical writers . What ...
... tragedies , abound with it . We have treated thus fully of the sublime , because it is so capital an excellency in fine writing , and because clear and precise ideas on this head , are seldom to be met with in critical writers . What ...
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... tragedies ; and the passion for it became so strong , that laws were made , for restraining the senators from studying the pantomime art . Now , though in decla- mations and theatrical exhibitions , both tone and gesture were ...
... tragedies ; and the passion for it became so strong , that laws were made , for restraining the senators from studying the pantomime art . Now , though in decla- mations and theatrical exhibitions , both tone and gesture were ...
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... tragedies often err in this respect . Thus Mr. Addison , in his Cato , makes Portius , just after Lucia had bid him farewell for ever , and when he should naturally have been represented in the most violent anguish , express himself in ...
... tragedies often err in this respect . Thus Mr. Addison , in his Cato , makes Portius , just after Lucia had bid him farewell for ever , and when he should naturally have been represented in the most violent anguish , express himself in ...
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... tragedy , as distinguished from double plots , and crowded incidents - the simplicity of the Iliad or the Æneid , in opposition to the digressions of Lucan ; the simplicity of Grecian architecture , in opposition to the irregular ...
... tragedy , as distinguished from double plots , and crowded incidents - the simplicity of the Iliad or the Æneid , in opposition to the digressions of Lucan ; the simplicity of Grecian architecture , in opposition to the irregular ...
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... tragedy or dramatic writing . Poetry , in its ancient original condition , was , perhaps , more vigorous than it is in its modern state . It included then the whole burst of the human mind - the whole exertion of its imaginative ...
... tragedy or dramatic writing . Poetry , in its ancient original condition , was , perhaps , more vigorous than it is in its modern state . It included then the whole burst of the human mind - the whole exertion of its imaginative ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair Hugh Blair,Abraham Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Hugh Blair, Dr,Abraham Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 298 - 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 ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Página 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 301 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Página 297 - Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd shore, 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...
Página 101 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Página 126 - 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 168 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Página 304 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Página 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.