An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - Всего страниц: 312 |
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... Modern Elo- quence , Eloquence of Popular Assemblies Eloquence of the Bar Eloquence of the Pulpit 135 143 155 161 - 167 172 178 Conduct of a Discourse in all its Parts . In- troduction , Division , Narration , and Ex- plication The ...
... Modern Elo- quence , Eloquence of Popular Assemblies Eloquence of the Bar Eloquence of the Pulpit 135 143 155 161 - 167 172 178 Conduct of a Discourse in all its Parts . In- troduction , Division , Narration , and Ex- plication The ...
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... modern , the sacred scrip- tures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the descriptions of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of representing it . What A ...
... modern , the sacred scrip- tures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the descriptions of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of representing it . What A ...
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... modern language . As terms increase in every nation , and the vast fields of language is filled up , words by a thousand fanciful and irregular methods of derivation and composition deviate widely from the primitive character of their ...
... modern language . As terms increase in every nation , and the vast fields of language is filled up , words by a thousand fanciful and irregular methods of derivation and composition deviate widely from the primitive character of their ...
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... modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage approached to the nature of recitative in music ; was capable of being marked by ...
... modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their orators and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage approached to the nature of recitative in music ; was capable of being marked by ...
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... modern tongues . The consideration of this will serve to unfold farther the ge- nius of Language and to shew the causes of those alterations , it has undergone in the progress of soci- ety . To conceive distinctly the nature of this ...
... modern tongues . The consideration of this will serve to unfold farther the ge- nius of Language and to shew the causes of those alterations , it has undergone in the progress of soci- ety . To conceive distinctly the nature of this ...
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Стр. 248 - 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...
Стр. 249 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Стр. 248 - Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-water'd 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...
Стр. 252 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad ; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Стр. 233 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Стр. 96 - pride is greater than his ignorance, and what he wants in" knowledge, he supplies by sufficiency. When he has looked " about him, as far as he can, he concludes, there is no more " to be seen ; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the " bottom of the ocean ; when he has shot his best, he is sure " none ever did, or ever can, shoot better, or beyond it. His, " own reason he holds to be the certain measure of truth ;and «' his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature...
Стр. 118 - 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.
Стр. 253 - 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.
Стр. 205 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Стр. 119 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the 'first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?