An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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... admits no criterion for determining , whether it be true or false . Its foundation is the same in every human mind . It is built upon sentiments and perceptions , which are inseparable from our nature ; and which generally operate with ...
... admits no criterion for determining , whether it be true or false . Its foundation is the same in every human mind . It is built upon sentiments and perceptions , which are inseparable from our nature ; and which generally operate with ...
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... admits no mediocrity , and cannot subsist in a middle state ; but must either highly trans- port us , or , if unsuccessful in the execution , leave us exceedingly disgusted . We attempt to rise with the writer ; imagination is awakened ...
... admits no mediocrity , and cannot subsist in a middle state ; but must either highly trans- port us , or , if unsuccessful in the execution , leave us exceedingly disgusted . We attempt to rise with the writer ; imagination is awakened ...
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... admits longer duration . It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so great , that the sensations which beautiful objects excite , differ exceedingly , not in degree only , but also in ...
... admits longer duration . It extends also to a much greater variety of objects than sublimity ; to a variety indeed so great , that the sensations which beautiful objects excite , differ exceedingly , not in degree only , but also in ...
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... of tenses in almost every language . The present may indeed be always regarded as one indivisible point , which admits no variety ; " I am , " " L sum . " But it is not so 54 Structure of Language . Structure of Language English Tongue ·
... of tenses in almost every language . The present may indeed be always regarded as one indivisible point , which admits no variety ; " I am , " " L sum . " But it is not so 54 Structure of Language . Structure of Language English Tongue ·
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... admit the distinction of voices , viz . the active and passive ; as , " I love , or , I am loved . " They admit also the distinction of modes , which are intended to express the perceptions and volitions of the mind under different ...
... admit the distinction of voices , viz . the active and passive ; as , " I love , or , I am loved . " They admit also the distinction of modes , which are intended to express the perceptions and volitions of the mind under different ...
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Стр. 185 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 114 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Стр. 182 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Стр. 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Стр. 182 - 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.
Стр. 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination...
Стр. 185 - 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.
Стр. 174 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala (dux ego vester eram) vidi cum matre legentem. alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus; iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. 40 ut vidi ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error.
Стр. 186 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.