Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresThomas Tegg, 1845 - 592 Seiten |
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... word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boileau has well observed , the style indeed is raised , but the thought is fallen . In general , in all good writing , the Sublime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the ...
... word , commanded the light to exist ; " and , as Boileau has well observed , the style indeed is raised , but the thought is fallen . In general , in all good writing , the Sublime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the ...
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... words and writing . Words have no natural resemblance to the ideas or objects which they are employed to signify ; but a statue or picture has a natural likeness to the original . And therefore Imitation and Description differ ...
... words and writing . Words have no natural resemblance to the ideas or objects which they are employed to signify ; but a statue or picture has a natural likeness to the original . And therefore Imitation and Description differ ...
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... words , be generally agreed on as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a few , whom chance or necessity threw together , agreed by some means upon certain signs , yet by what authority could these be pro- pagated among other tribes ...
... words , be generally agreed on as the signs of their ideas ? Supposing that a few , whom chance or necessity threw together , agreed by some means upon certain signs , yet by what authority could these be pro- pagated among other tribes ...
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... words ? Undoubtedly , by imitating , as much as they could , the nature of the object which they named , by the sound of the name which they gave to it . As a Painter , who would represent grass , must employ a green colour ; so , in ...
... words ? Undoubtedly , by imitating , as much as they could , the nature of the object which they named , by the sound of the name which they gave to it . As a Painter , who would represent grass , must employ a green colour ; so , in ...
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... words formed . * As far as this system is founded in truth , Language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin . Among the ancient Stoic and Platonic Philosophers , it was a question much agitated , " Utrum nomina rerum sint ...
... words formed . * As far as this system is founded in truth , Language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin . Among the ancient Stoic and Platonic Philosophers , it was a question much agitated , " Utrum nomina rerum sint ...
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Seite 482 - 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; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear...
Seite 34 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Seite 187 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.
Seite 494 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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.
Seite 490 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Seite 233 - 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.
Seite 565 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 187 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds : I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Seite 227 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Seite 490 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...