Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. BlairRobinson & Franklin, 1838 - 360 páginas |
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... examples which poetry , eloquence , and history , are often bringing under our view , naturally tend to nourish , in our minds , public spirit , the love of glory , contempt of external fortune , and the admira- tion of what is truly ...
... examples which poetry , eloquence , and history , are often bringing under our view , naturally tend to nourish , in our minds , public spirit , the love of glory , contempt of external fortune , and the admira- tion of what is truly ...
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... example : Aristotle's rules concerning the unity of action in dramatic and epic compo- sitions , were not rules first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were drawn from the practice of Homer and ...
... example : Aristotle's rules concerning the unity of action in dramatic and epic compo- sitions , were not rules first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were drawn from the practice of Homer and ...
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... examples are given ? How is this , also , illustrated ? For what is darkness very commonly applied ; and what illustrations follow ? What is also favorable to the sublime ; what is remarked of it ; and what has Mr. Burke ingeniously ...
... examples are given ? How is this , also , illustrated ? For what is darkness very commonly applied ; and what illustrations follow ? What is also favorable to the sublime ; what is remarked of it ; and what has Mr. Burke ingeniously ...
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... of his introduction of the gods ; and of the passage from the XXth . book what is remarked ? Repeat Mr. Pope's translation of it . The works of Ossian abound with examples of the sublime 30 THE SUBLIME IN WRITING . [ LECT . 4 .
... of his introduction of the gods ; and of the passage from the XXth . book what is remarked ? Repeat Mr. Pope's translation of it . The works of Ossian abound with examples of the sublime 30 THE SUBLIME IN WRITING . [ LECT . 4 .
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... examples of the sublime . The subjects of which that author treats , and the manner in which he writes , are particularly favorable to it . He possesses all the plain and venerable manner of the ancient times . He deals in no ...
... examples of the sublime . The subjects of which that author treats , and the manner in which he writes , are particularly favorable to it . He possesses all the plain and venerable manner of the ancient times . He deals in no ...
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Página 302 - I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach Light to counterfeit a gloom, 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...
Página 305 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 305 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Página 32 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 103 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 301 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Página 170 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Página 308 - 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.
Página 125 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Página 101 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.