The Speaker, Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads : with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which is Prefixed an Essay on Elocution, Also an Essay on Reading Works of Tastebooksellers, 1801 - 300 páginas |
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... faid ; then full before their fight Produc'd the beaft , and lo ! - ' twas WHITE . And Brutus is an HONOURABLE man . LASTLY , Emphafis is of ufe in determining the fenfe of doubtful expreffions . The following fhort fentence admits of ...
... faid ; then full before their fight Produc'd the beaft , and lo ! - ' twas WHITE . And Brutus is an HONOURABLE man . LASTLY , Emphafis is of ufe in determining the fenfe of doubtful expreffions . The following fhort fentence admits of ...
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... faid to be SUBLIME . The emotion of fublimity is doubtlefs firft produced by means of the powers of vision . Whatever is lofty , vast , or profound , whilft it fills the eye , expands the imagina- tion , and dilates the heart , and thus ...
... faid to be SUBLIME . The emotion of fublimity is doubtlefs firft produced by means of the powers of vision . Whatever is lofty , vast , or profound , whilft it fills the eye , expands the imagina- tion , and dilates the heart , and thus ...
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... faid to be fublime . IN like manner , because certain objects of fight are diftinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , thofe writers who re- present their fair forms , whether natural or ...
... faid to be fublime . IN like manner , because certain objects of fight are diftinguished by characters of beauty , and are adapted to excite emotions of complacence , thofe writers who re- present their fair forms , whether natural or ...
Página xlvii
... faid that a writer's ftyle is vulgar , feeble , obfcure , dry , or florid , the faults , which thefe epithets are intended to ex- prefs , arife from certain defects in the writer's powers or habits of thinking , which have an ...
... faid that a writer's ftyle is vulgar , feeble , obfcure , dry , or florid , the faults , which thefe epithets are intended to ex- prefs , arife from certain defects in the writer's powers or habits of thinking , which have an ...
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... faid , Were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary dif- tinction , unless accompanied with the practice of thofe ge- nerous virtues by which ...
... faid , Were I Alexander I would accept them . So would I , replied Alexander , were I Parmenio . NOBILITY is to be confidered only as an imaginary dif- tinction , unless accompanied with the practice of thofe ge- nerous virtues by which ...
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