Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. BlairRobinson & Franklin, 1838 - 360 páginas |
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... , A. M. AUTHOR OF AN IMPROVED EDITION OF ALISON ON TASTE , ETC. THIRD EDITION . NEW YORK : ROBINSON AND FRANKLIN , ( Successors to Leavitt , Lord , & Co. ) Entered according to act of Congress , by JAMES CONNER 1938 . LECTURES ON ...
... , A. M. AUTHOR OF AN IMPROVED EDITION OF ALISON ON TASTE , ETC. THIRD EDITION . NEW YORK : ROBINSON AND FRANKLIN , ( Successors to Leavitt , Lord , & Co. ) Entered according to act of Congress , by JAMES CONNER 1938 . LECTURES ON ...
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... taste and polite learn- ing ; and to argue in favor of their merits , would be like attempting to persuade the lovers of poetry , that they ought to admire the Deserted Village of Goldsmith , or the Plea- sures of Hope of Campbell . The ...
... taste and polite learn- ing ; and to argue in favor of their merits , would be like attempting to persuade the lovers of poetry , that they ought to admire the Deserted Village of Goldsmith , or the Plea- sures of Hope of Campbell . The ...
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... taste , and to lead genius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are incapable , perhaps , of producing great excellencies , they may , at least , be subservient to prevent the commission of considerable ...
... taste , and to lead genius from unnatural deviations into its proper channel . Though they are incapable , perhaps , of producing great excellencies , they may , at least , be subservient to prevent the commission of considerable ...
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... taste . at acquiring a just discernment of the real merits of authors . It promotes a lively relish of their beauties , while it preserves us from that blind and implicit veneration which would con- found their beauties and faults in ...
... taste . at acquiring a just discernment of the real merits of authors . It promotes a lively relish of their beauties , while it preserves us from that blind and implicit veneration which would con- found their beauties and faults in ...
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... taste occupy a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those of pure intellect . To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly considered an unpromising symptom in youth ; and ...
... taste occupy a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those of pure intellect . To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence , poetry , or any of the fine arts , is justly considered an unpromising symptom in youth ; and ...
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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.