Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Kectures of Dr. BlairConner, 1832 - 360 páginas |
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... modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford us the highest instances of the sublime . The descrip- tions of the Deity , in them , are wonderfully noble - both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of repre- senting it . What an ...
... modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford us the highest instances of the sublime . The descrip- tions of the Deity , in them , are wonderfully noble - both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of repre- senting it . What an ...
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... modern times ; but where dwells the sublime , and with what does it naturally associate itself ? Why have these instances been produced ; and to what are they respectively opposed ? Why is a defect in either , peculiarly hurtful to the ...
... modern times ; but where dwells the sublime , and with what does it naturally associate itself ? Why have these instances been produced ; and to what are they respectively opposed ? Why is a defect in either , peculiarly hurtful to the ...
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... modern language . As the multitude of terms increase in every nation , and the immense field of language is filled up , words , by a thousand fanciful and irregular methods of de- rivation and composition , deviate widely from the ...
... modern language . As the multitude of terms increase in every nation , and the immense field of language is filled up , words , by a thousand fanciful and irregular methods of de- rivation and composition , deviate widely from the ...
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... modern pronunciation would have appeared 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 ...
... modern pronunciation would have appeared 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 ...
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... modern tongues . The consideration of this will serve to unfold farther the genius of language , and to show the causes of those alterations which it has undergone in the progress of society . In order to conceive , distinctly , the ...
... modern tongues . The consideration of this will serve to unfold farther the genius of language , and to show the causes of those alterations which it has undergone in the progress of society . In order to conceive , distinctly , the ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair Hugh Blair,Abraham Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Hugh Blair, Dr,Abraham Mills Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 298 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm ; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Página 301 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Página 301 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Página 297 - 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...
Página 101 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Página 297 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Página 126 - 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 168 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Página 304 - 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 99 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.