An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricC. Bell, 1837 - Всего страниц: 230 |
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... render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent ... rendered as concise as possible . Hence the attention is not fatigued , nor the memory overloaded . * That a knowledge ...
... render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent ... rendered as concise as possible . Hence the attention is not fatigued , nor the memory overloaded . * That a knowledge ...
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... render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . The most copious source of sublime ideas seems to be derived from the exertion of great power and force . Hence the ...
... render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . The most copious source of sublime ideas seems to be derived from the exertion of great power and force . Hence the ...
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... an impression ? Whence arises the excessive grandeur of the firmament ? How can you render an object sublime ? What is the most copious source of sublime ideas ? " Mention some instances . What is said of an Sublimity in Objects . 23.
... an impression ? Whence arises the excessive grandeur of the firmament ? How can you render an object sublime ? What is the most copious source of sublime ideas ? " Mention some instances . What is said of an Sublimity in Objects . 23.
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... renders bur- lesque and ridiculous , by the single circumstance of one of his giants , with the mountain Ida upon his shoulders , and a river , which flowed from the moun- tain , running down the giant's back , as he held it up in that ...
... renders bur- lesque and ridiculous , by the single circumstance of one of his giants , with the mountain Ida upon his shoulders , and a river , which flowed from the moun- tain , running down the giant's back , as he held it up in that ...
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... render the beauty greater , and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees and animals , we are entertained at once with the delicacy of the co- lour , with the gracefulness of the figure , and some- times also with the motion of the object ...
... render the beauty greater , and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees and animals , we are entertained at once with the delicacy of the co- lour , with the gracefulness of the figure , and some- times also with the motion of the object ...
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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.