An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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... animated by some great princi- ple to contempt of popular opinion , of selfish interest , of dangers , or of death ; we are there struck with a sense of the sublime . Thus Porus , when taken by Alexander , after a gallant defence ...
... animated by some great princi- ple to contempt of popular opinion , of selfish interest , of dangers , or of death ; we are there struck with a sense of the sublime . Thus Porus , when taken by Alexander , after a gallant defence ...
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... animated by the sublime idea which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong emotion . Instances , which on this subject are extremely necessary , will clearly show the importance ...
... animated by the sublime idea which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong emotion . Instances , which on this subject are extremely necessary , will clearly show the importance ...
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... 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 walls . Mars hovering ...
... 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 walls . Mars hovering ...
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... animated gestures always go together . The action both of orators and players in Greece and Rome was far more vehement than that to which we are accustomed . To us , Roscius would appear a madman . Gesture was of such consequence on the ...
... animated gestures always go together . The action both of orators and players in Greece and Rome was far more vehement than that to which we are accustomed . To us , Roscius would appear a madman . Gesture was of such consequence on the ...
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... animated ; the English more clear and distinct . 2 Our language naturally allows greater liberty for transposition and inversion , in poetry , than in prose . Even there , however , this liberty is confined within narrow limits , in ...
... animated ; the English more clear and distinct . 2 Our language naturally allows greater liberty for transposition and inversion , in poetry , than in prose . Even there , however , this liberty is confined within narrow limits , in ...
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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.