The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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... Grecian isles , Egypt , and Palestine , he surrendered to his sense of duty ; not by any promise or engagement , but by the act then and there of turning his face homewards ; well aware at the time that his chance was small indeed ...
... Grecian isles , Egypt , and Palestine , he surrendered to his sense of duty ; not by any promise or engagement , but by the act then and there of turning his face homewards ; well aware at the time that his chance was small indeed ...
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... Grecian masters not after- wards approached . In particular , it was so taught by Aristotle , whose system we are disposed to agree with Dr. Whately in pronouncing the best , as regards the primary purpose of a teacher ; though ...
... Grecian masters not after- wards approached . In particular , it was so taught by Aristotle , whose system we are disposed to agree with Dr. Whately in pronouncing the best , as regards the primary purpose of a teacher ; though ...
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... Grecian and Roman plead- ings are occupied with questions of elementary justice , large and diffusive , apprehensible even to the uninstructed , and connecting themselves at every step with powerful and tempestuous feelings . In British ...
... Grecian and Roman plead- ings are occupied with questions of elementary justice , large and diffusive , apprehensible even to the uninstructed , and connecting themselves at every step with powerful and tempestuous feelings . In British ...
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... Grecian Government , assembling separately , have come to a resolution , without one dissentient voice , to invite you back to Greece , in order that you may again take a share in the Grecian contest ; a contest in itself glorious , and ...
... Grecian Government , assembling separately , have come to a resolution , without one dissentient voice , to invite you back to Greece , in order that you may again take a share in the Grecian contest ; a contest in itself glorious , and ...
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... Grecian provinces passed at that disastrous era into the hands of the Turkish conqueror ; but this is an error . Parts of Greece , pre- viously to that era , had been dismembered from the Eastern empire ; other parts did not until long ...
... Grecian provinces passed at that disastrous era into the hands of the Turkish conqueror ; but this is an error . Parts of Greece , pre- viously to that era , had been dismembered from the Eastern empire ; other parts did not until long ...
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Página 56 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Página 57 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Página 56 - Sion — as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Página 120 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Página 90 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Página 57 - ... and each other's rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together : the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be ' Dum Domus ^Enese Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque Pater...
Página 251 - Euripides ; and that his pupils ^Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Página 37 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Página 272 - ... union is too subtle; the intertexture too ineffable, each co-existing not merely with the other, but each in and through the other. An image, for instance, a single word, often enters into a thought as a constituent part. In short, the two elements are not united as a body with a separable dress, but as a mysterious incarnation. And thus, in what proportion the thoughts are subjective, in that same proportion does their very essence become identical with the expression, and the style become confluent...
Página 74 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.