Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitT. Wood, 1722 - 326 páginas |
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... please the Ear , with harmonious Sounds ; and the Imagination , with Ideas that are more gay and Sparkling , than just and folid . To move the Paffions our eloquent Author wou'd have an Orator fet every Truth in its proper Place ; and ...
... please the Ear , with harmonious Sounds ; and the Imagination , with Ideas that are more gay and Sparkling , than just and folid . To move the Paffions our eloquent Author wou'd have an Orator fet every Truth in its proper Place ; and ...
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... please others . But while one endeavour's to pleafe , he has another View ; which , tho ' more diftant , ought to be his chief Aim . A Man of Pro- . bity has no other Design in pleasing others , than that he may the more effectually ...
... please others . But while one endeavour's to pleafe , he has another View ; which , tho ' more diftant , ought to be his chief Aim . A Man of Pro- . bity has no other Design in pleasing others , than that he may the more effectually ...
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... please the Ear : while on the contrary , DEMOSTHENES moves , warms , and captivates the Heart . He was too fenfibly touch'd with the Interest of his Country , to mind the little glitter- ing Fancies that amus'd ISOCRATES . Every Oration ...
... please the Ear : while on the contrary , DEMOSTHENES moves , warms , and captivates the Heart . He was too fenfibly touch'd with the Interest of his Country , to mind the little glitter- ing Fancies that amus'd ISOCRATES . Every Oration ...
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... please others , by talking ; that he may raise his Reputation , or his For- tune ? B. You know my Opinion already . I reckon fuch an Ufe of Eloquence very fair and allowable ; feeing it excites a lau- dable Emulation , and helps to ...
... please others , by talking ; that he may raise his Reputation , or his For- tune ? B. You know my Opinion already . I reckon fuch an Ufe of Eloquence very fair and allowable ; feeing it excites a lau- dable Emulation , and helps to ...
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... please . B. Seeing we lay down the Rule you laft mention'd , for the Management of the Body , there is certainly greater reason to follow it in the Conduct and Improve- ment of the Mind . A. Wou'd you permit fuch Arts as are only ...
... please . B. Seeing we lay down the Rule you laft mention'd , for the Management of the Body , there is certainly greater reason to follow it in the Conduct and Improve- ment of the Mind . A. Wou'd you permit fuch Arts as are only ...
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Página 153 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Página 30 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much, upon this beautiful deceipt; and labour so long after it, in the years of our education: that we cannot but ever after think kinder of it, than it deserves.
Página 151 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Página 152 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 151 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Página 106 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Página 73 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for Language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent...
Página 151 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Página 160 - What advantage must they not reap if they were used to nourish themselves with this spiritual bread ? An audience who had heard the chief points of the Mosaic law explained, would be able to receive far more benefit from an explication of the truths of the gospel, than the greatest part of Christians are now. The preacher we spoke of before, has this failing among many great qualities, that his sermons are trains of fine reasoning about religion ; but they are not religion itself. We apply ourselves...
Página 77 - ... only whom he makes to speak. Such is the force of a natural imitation, and of painting in language. Hence it comes that the painters and the poets are so nearly related ; the one paints for the eyes ; and the other for the ears : but both of them ought to convey the liveliest pictures to people's imagination. I have taken an example from a poet to give you a livelier image of what I mean by painting in eloquence : for poets paint in a stronger manner than orators. Indeed the main thing in which...