An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric: ... with Appropriate Questions to Each ChapterKey, Mielke & Biddle, 1832 - 230 páginas |
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... expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endea- voured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
... expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has often been disgraced by attempts to establish a false criterion of its value . Writers have endea- voured to supply want of matter by graces of composition ...
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... expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness or simplicity is pe- culiarly hurtful to the sublime . The emotion excit- ed in the mind by some great or noble object , raises it considerably above its common ...
... expression . It will easily appear , why a defect either in conciseness or simplicity is pe- culiarly hurtful to the sublime . The emotion excit- ed in the mind by some great or noble object , raises it considerably above its common ...
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... expression , by rising above what is customary or vulgar , constitutes the sublime ; yet nothing is in reality more false . In genuine instances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ; and ...
... expression , by rising above what is customary or vulgar , constitutes the sublime ; yet nothing is in reality more false . In genuine instances of sublime writing , nothing of this kind appears . " God said , let there be light ; and ...
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... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind , of good sense , of good humour , of candour , benevolence , sen- sibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be ob- served , that there are certain qualities of the ...
... expression , which it conveys , of the qualities of the mind , of good sense , of good humour , of candour , benevolence , sen- sibility , or other amiable dispositions . It may be ob- served , that there are certain qualities of the ...
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... expression . Interjections , it has been shown , or passionate ex- clamations , were the elements of speech . Men la- boured to communicate their feelings to each other by those expressive cries and gestures , which nature taught them ...
... expression . Interjections , it has been shown , or passionate ex- clamations , were the elements of speech . Men la- boured to communicate their feelings to each other by those expressive cries and gestures , which nature taught them ...
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Página 187 - 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 173 - 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 28 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 88 - 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 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Página 22 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Página 74 - 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 187 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Página 25 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.