Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 3Tourneisen, 1788 |
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... beautiful and agreeable . It is , indeed , full of digreffions , and his rules and obfervations may be thought fometimes too vague and general . Ufeful things , however , may be learned from it ; and it is no small benefit to be made ...
... beautiful and agreeable . It is , indeed , full of digreffions , and his rules and obfervations may be thought fometimes too vague and general . Ufeful things , however , may be learned from it ; and it is no small benefit to be made ...
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... beautiful manner , yet sometimes they do not give us a clear view of all the political causes , which affected the fituation of affairs of which they treat . From the Greek Hiftorians , we are able to form but an imperfect notion , of ...
... beautiful manner , yet sometimes they do not give us a clear view of all the political causes , which affected the fituation of affairs of which they treat . From the Greek Hiftorians , we are able to form but an imperfect notion , of ...
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... beautiful . The circumftances are finely felected , and the Narration is eafy and engaging ; but his Hellenics , or Continuation of the History of Thucydides , is a much inferior work . Salluft's Art of Hiftorical Painting in his ...
... beautiful . The circumftances are finely felected , and the Narration is eafy and engaging ; but his Hellenics , or Continuation of the History of Thucydides , is a much inferior work . Salluft's Art of Hiftorical Painting in his ...
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... beautiful exemplifications of Historical Paint- ing , that is any where to be met with . We have first , an exact defcription of the narrow pafs between two mountains , into which the enemy had decoyed the Romans . When they find them ...
... beautiful exemplifications of Historical Paint- ing , that is any where to be met with . We have first , an exact defcription of the narrow pafs between two mountains , into which the enemy had decoyed the Romans . When they find them ...
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... beautiful foever they are , it may be much queftioned , I think , whether they find a proper place in Hif- tory . I rather incline to think , that they are unfuitable to it . For they form a mixture which is unnatural in History , of ...
... beautiful foever they are , it may be much queftioned , I think , whether they find a proper place in Hif- tory . I rather incline to think , that they are unfuitable to it . For they form a mixture which is unnatural in History , of ...
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againſt agreeable alfo ancient beautiful Book of Job cenfure character Cicero circumftances Comedy compariſon compofed Compofition confiderable confifts converfation courſe defcribed defcription difplay diftinction diſtinguiſhed elegant Eloquence Engliſh Epic Epic Poetry Euripides expreffion fame fcenes feems fenfe fentiments feveral fhall fhould fhow fimplicity firft firſt fome fometimes fpeaking fpecies fpirit ftrain ftrong ftudy ftyle fubject fublime fuch fufficient fyllables genius greateſt Greek Herodotus Hiftorian Hiftory higheſt himſelf Homer Iliad imitation impreffion inftance inftruction intereſting itſelf kind language laſt LECT lefs Lyric Poetry manner meaſure modern moft moral moſt Mufic muft muſt narration nature neceffary obfervations objects occafions Odes Orator paffages paffed paffion Paftoral perfonages perfons Philofophical pleafing pleaſure Poem Poet Poetical Poetry poffefs prefent Profe reafon refpect render rife ſcenes ſhall Sophocles ſpeak ſtate ſtudy Style Tacitus taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe Thucydides tion Tragedy uſeful Verfe Verfification Verſe Virgil Writing XXXIX XXXVIII