Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the PulpitT. Wood, 1722 - 326 páginas |
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... florid ; and his Periods adjusted with incredible Pains , merely to please the Ear : while on the contrary , * DEMOSTHENES moves , warms , and captivates the Heart . He was too fenfibly touch'd with the Interest of his Country , to mind ...
... florid ; and his Periods adjusted with incredible Pains , merely to please the Ear : while on the contrary , * DEMOSTHENES moves , warms , and captivates the Heart . He was too fenfibly touch'd with the Interest of his Country , to mind ...
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... florid manner of ISOCRATES , which is fo much admir'd and imitated by others . A. Instead of giving you my own O- pinion , I fhall go on to lay before you the Rules that the Antients give us : but I fhall only touch upon the chief ...
... florid manner of ISOCRATES , which is fo much admir'd and imitated by others . A. Instead of giving you my own O- pinion , I fhall go on to lay before you the Rules that the Antients give us : but I fhall only touch upon the chief ...
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... florid Expreffions , gaudy Metaphors , and jingling Antithefes . He delivers no- • thing . * There are two Extremes to be avoided with the utmost Care , the frigid Stile , and the boyish . The former renders a Difcourfe dry and infipid ...
... florid Expreffions , gaudy Metaphors , and jingling Antithefes . He delivers no- • thing . * There are two Extremes to be avoided with the utmost Care , the frigid Stile , and the boyish . The former renders a Difcourfe dry and infipid ...
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... florid and pompous it may be , it is not truly eloquent . TUL- LY approves of PLATO's Sentiments on this Point ; and tells us that the whole * Lib . I. Drift and Force of a Difcourfe fhou'd tend Lib . II . to move those secret Springs ...
... florid and pompous it may be , it is not truly eloquent . TUL- LY approves of PLATO's Sentiments on this Point ; and tells us that the whole * Lib . I. Drift and Force of a Difcourfe fhou'd tend Lib . II . to move those secret Springs ...
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... florid Harangues that are now in vogue . Did you ever read his famous Panegyrick on HELEN ? B. Yes I have read it some time ago . A. How did you like it ? B. Extremely well . I thought I ne- ver saw so much Wit , Elegance , Sweet- ness ...
... florid Harangues that are now in vogue . Did you ever read his famous Panegyrick on HELEN ? B. Yes I have read it some time ago . A. How did you like it ? B. Extremely well . I thought I ne- ver saw so much Wit , Elegance , Sweet- ness ...
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Página 151 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Página 153 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Página 244 - The moral artist who can thus imitate the Creator, and is thus knowing in the inward form and structure of his fellow-creature, will hardly, I presume, be found unknowing in himself, or at a loss in those numbers which make the harmony of a mind.
Página 154 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Página 152 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Página 151 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Página 151 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above ; and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me : those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Página 152 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 30 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much, upon this beautiful deceipt; and labour so long after it, in the years of our education: that we cannot but ever after think kinder of it, than it deserves.
Página 151 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect ; for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth, and u-itliout iniquity, just and right is he.