An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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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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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.