Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... poet composed in verse , if in reading his lines , we suppress his numbers : and degrade them , by our pronuncia- tion , into mere prose ? We ought , therefore , certainly to read blank verse so , as to make every line sensible to the ...
... poet composed in verse , if in reading his lines , we suppress his numbers : and degrade them , by our pronuncia- tion , into mere prose ? We ought , therefore , certainly to read blank verse so , as to make every line sensible to the ...
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... poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the study of oratory has this advantage above that of poetry , that , in ... poet , without any aid from art , by the force of genius alone , can rise higher than a public speak- er can do ...
... poets who are foremost in poetic fame ; but the study of oratory has this advantage above that of poetry , that , in ... poet , without any aid from art , by the force of genius alone , can rise higher than a public speak- er can do ...
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... poets , orators , and historians , compared with the modern . Among the ancients , we find higher conceptions , greater simplicity , more original fancy . Among the moderns , sometimes more art and correctness , but feebler exertions of ...
... poets , orators , and historians , compared with the modern . Among the ancients , we find higher conceptions , greater simplicity , more original fancy . Among the moderns , sometimes more art and correctness , but feebler exertions of ...
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... poet , who was a citi- zen of Athens . These were testimonies of public regard , far beyond what modern manners confer upon genius . In our times , good writing is considered as an attainment , neither so difficult , nor so high and ...
... poet , who was a citi- zen of Athens . These were testimonies of public regard , far beyond what modern manners confer upon genius . In our times , good writing is considered as an attainment , neither so difficult , nor so high and ...
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... poet , is more strong and expressive than this last stroke of the description : " Non tumultus , non quies , sed quale , " & c . This is a conception of the sublime kind , and discovers high genius . Indeed , throughout all his work ...
... poet , is more strong and expressive than this last stroke of the description : " Non tumultus , non quies , sed quale , " & c . This is a conception of the sublime kind , and discovers high genius . Indeed , throughout all his work ...
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Página 239 - 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, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Página 243 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Página 247 - 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 255 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Página 248 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Página 254 - 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 67 - Gather my saints together unto me ; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness : for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, 0 my people, and I will speak; 0 Israel, and I will testify against thee : I am God, even thy God.
Página 14 - ... semperque in omni parte orationis , ut vitae, quid deceat, est considerandum : quod et in re, de qua agitur , positum est, et in personis et eorum , qui dicunt , et eorum , qui audiunt.
Página 307 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 251 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.