An Abridgement of Lectures on RhetoricT. and J. Swords, 1813 - 287 páginas |
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... Iliad and Odyssey The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia 216 220 224 233 236 Tasso's Jerusalem 238 The Lusiad of Camoens 240 The Telemachus of Fenelon 242 The Henriade of Voltaire 244 Milton's Paradise Lost 246 Dramatic Poetry ; Tragedy ...
... Iliad and Odyssey The Eneid of Virgil Lucan's Pharsalia 216 220 224 233 236 Tasso's Jerusalem 238 The Lusiad of Camoens 240 The Telemachus of Fenelon 242 The Henriade of Voltaire 244 Milton's Paradise Lost 246 Dramatic Poetry ; Tragedy ...
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... it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most improved nations of the earth through a long se- ries of ages have concurred to bestow on some few Criticism . works of genius ; such as the Iliad 12 BLAIR'S LECTURES .
... it . Hence the universal testimony , which the most improved nations of the earth through a long se- ries of ages have concurred to bestow on some few Criticism . works of genius ; such as the Iliad 12 BLAIR'S LECTURES .
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Hugh Blair. Criticism . works of genius ; such as the Iliad of Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority , which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are ena- bled to collect ...
Hugh Blair. Criticism . works of genius ; such as the Iliad of Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority , which such works have obtained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are ena- bled to collect ...
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... Iliad frequent in- stances of sublime writing . The majesty of his warlike scenes is often heightened in a high degree by the introduction of the gods . In the twentieth book , where all the gods take part in the engage- ment ...
... Iliad frequent in- stances of sublime writing . The majesty of his warlike scenes is often heightened in a high degree by the introduction of the gods . In the twentieth book , where all the gods take part in the engage- ment ...
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... Iliad . It must be allow- ed at the same time , that imitation and descrip- tion agree in their principal effect , that of recall- ing by external signs the ideas of things which we do not see . But , though in this they coin- cide ...
... Iliad . It must be allow- ed at the same time , that imitation and descrip- tion agree in their principal effect , that of recall- ing by external signs the ideas of things which we do not see . But , though in this they coin- cide ...
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Página 109 - God is not a man, that he should lie ; " nor the Son of Man, that he should repent.
Página 222 - 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.
Página 218 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower...
Página 103 - 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 103 - 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...
Página 222 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Página 221 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Página 24 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure : Even saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Página 179 - Aonian maids, Delight no more; — O thou my voice inspire Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire ! Rapt into future times, the bard begun: A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son!
Página 27 - 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...