An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricFrom the Press of A. Loudon, (Whitehall), 1808 - Всего страниц: 312 |
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... character to the ancient transposition ; the English has more inver- sion than the rest ; and the French has the least of all . Writing is an improvement upon Speech , and conse- quently was posterior to it in order of time . Its cha- ...
... character to the ancient transposition ; the English has more inver- sion than the rest ; and the French has the least of all . Writing is an improvement upon Speech , and conse- quently was posterior to it in order of time . Its cha- ...
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... character , that is , Achilles ; and shown the pernicious effects of discord among confederated princes . The praise of high invention has in every age been justly given to Homer . His incidents , speeches , cha- racters , divine and ...
... character , that is , Achilles ; and shown the pernicious effects of discord among confederated princes . The praise of high invention has in every age been justly given to Homer . His incidents , speeches , cha- racters , divine and ...
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... perhaps is too tragic for epic poe- try . The subject naturally admits no great display of cha- racters ; but such as could be introduced , are properly , 1 [ supported . Satan makes a striking figure ; and 280 MILTON'S PARADISE LOST .
... perhaps is too tragic for epic poe- try . The subject naturally admits no great display of cha- racters ; but such as could be introduced , are properly , 1 [ supported . Satan makes a striking figure ; and 280 MILTON'S PARADISE LOST .
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... racters by description or narration ; it sets the person- ages before us , and makes them act and speak with pro priety . This species of writing therefore requires deep knowledge of the human heart ; and , when hap . pily executed , it ...
... racters by description or narration ; it sets the person- ages before us , and makes them act and speak with pro priety . This species of writing therefore requires deep knowledge of the human heart ; and , when hap . pily executed , it ...
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... character . In France the influence of a despotic court spreads uniform- ity over the nation . Hence comedy has a more am ... racters , and coarse allusions . ( Change of manners has rendered the comedies of the last ENGLISH COMEDY . 309 ...
... character . In France the influence of a despotic court spreads uniform- ity over the nation . Hence comedy has a more am ... racters , and coarse allusions . ( Change of manners has rendered the comedies of the last ENGLISH COMEDY . 309 ...
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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?