Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... sometimes been so managed as to tend to the corrup- tion , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true eloquence . But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art , as to any ...
... sometimes been so managed as to tend to the corrup- tion , rather than to the improvement , of good taste and true eloquence . But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art , as to any ...
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... sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by ...
... sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by ...
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... sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and ...
... sometimes found to float on the surface of the mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and ...
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... sometimes strike in the same manner the philosopher and the peasant ; the boy and the man . Hence the faculty by which we relish such beauties , seems more nearly allied to a feeling of sense , than to a process of the understanding ...
... sometimes strike in the same manner the philosopher and the peasant ; the boy and the man . Hence the faculty by which we relish such beauties , seems more nearly allied to a feeling of sense , than to a process of the understanding ...
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... sometimes the state of religion , sometimes the form of government , may for a while pervert it ; a licentious court may intro- duce a taste for false ornaments , and dissolute writ- ings . The usage of one admired genius may procure ...
... sometimes the state of religion , sometimes the form of government , may for a while pervert it ; a licentious court may intro- duce a taste for false ornaments , and dissolute writ- ings . The usage of one admired genius may procure ...
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Стр. 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Стр. 330 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
Стр. 411 - 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.
Стр. 331 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
Стр. 57 - Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, and bade the father of his country 'hail! for lo! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, and Rome again is free!
Стр. 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Стр. 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Стр. 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
Стр. 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Стр. 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.