An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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... composition ; and courted the temporary ap- plause of the ignorant , instead of the lasting ap- probation of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be ...
... composition ; and courted the temporary ap- plause of the ignorant , instead of the lasting ap- probation of the discerning . But such imposture must be short and transitory . The body and substance of any valuable composition must be ...
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... experience , that there are beau- ties , which , if displayed in a proper light , have power to command lasting and universal admiration . In every composition , what interests the imagination , and touches Taste . 15.
... experience , that there are beau- ties , which , if displayed in a proper light , have power to command lasting and universal admiration . In every composition , what interests the imagination , and touches Taste . 15.
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... composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , poetry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice may in ...
... composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , with respect to those beauties , which give them the highest pleasure , and which , therefore , poetry ought to exhibit . Authority or prejudice may in ...
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... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were reduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive from the ...
... composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were reduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive from the ...
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... composition n.ust always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an object as , if presented to our sight , if exhibited to us in reality , would excite ideas of that elevating , that awful , and magnificent ...
... composition n.ust always be laid in the nature of the object described . Unless it be such an object as , if presented to our sight , if exhibited to us in reality , would excite ideas of that elevating , that awful , and magnificent ...
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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.