Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettresS.G. Goodrich, 1822 - 144 páginas |
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... light : and there was light . " Gen. i . 3 . Q. What heathen poet has , in all ages , been admired for sublimity ? A. Homer . Q. To what is he indebted for much of his grandeur ? A. To his native and unaffected simplicity . Q. What ...
... light : and there was light . " Gen. i . 3 . Q. What heathen poet has , in all ages , been admired for sublimity ? A. Homer . Q. To what is he indebted for much of his grandeur ? A. To his native and unaffected simplicity . Q. What ...
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... light : and there was light , " is sublime . But , " the sovereign arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a single word , com- manded the light to exist , " is bombast . BEAUTY . Q. What , next to sublimity , affords Sublimity in ...
... light : and there was light , " is sublime . But , " the sovereign arbiter of nature , by the potent energy of a single word , com- manded the light to exist , " is bombast . BEAUTY . Q. What , next to sublimity , affords Sublimity in ...
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... Light ariseth to the upright in dark- ness . Here light and darkness are put for comfort and adversity . 99 Q. In what do Figures of Thought consist ? A. In the turn of the Thought ; -the words used retaining their proper and literal ...
... Light ariseth to the upright in dark- ness . Here light and darkness are put for comfort and adversity . 99 Q. In what do Figures of Thought consist ? A. In the turn of the Thought ; -the words used retaining their proper and literal ...
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... light . Q. What is a Climax ? A. A gradual rise of one circumstance above another , until our idea be raised to the ut- most Q. What general observations may be made upon figures of speech ? A. That they are not essential to the chief ...
... light . Q. What is a Climax ? A. A gradual rise of one circumstance above another , until our idea be raised to the ut- most Q. What general observations may be made upon figures of speech ? A. That they are not essential to the chief ...
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... lights , and giving the reader every possible assistance in understanding it . Q. What advantage , in written composi- tion , has the Concise over the Diffuse style ? A. It is more lively ; commands better at- tention ; makes a brisker ...
... lights , and giving the reader every possible assistance in understanding it . Q. What advantage , in written composi- tion , has the Concise over the Diffuse style ? A. It is more lively ; commands better at- tention ; makes a brisker ...
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Página 112 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 12 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Página 140 - 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.
Página 134 - 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,...
Página 141 - There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
Página 47 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 46 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Página 47 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Página 44 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 14 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.