Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 pages |
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... give us à " transient entertainment , but the works of na- " ture fill us with a nobler and more permanent ແ delight , as we may particularly observe in fuch " who behold the painting , for example , of a " Landscape , or the different ...
... give us à " transient entertainment , but the works of na- " ture fill us with a nobler and more permanent ແ delight , as we may particularly observe in fuch " who behold the painting , for example , of a " Landscape , or the different ...
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... give you no image at all , and instances in the following lines : The gaping clouds pour lakes of fulphur down , Whofe livid flashes fick'ning fun beams drown . " What a noble confusion ! " adds that keen Writer : " Clouds , lakes ...
... give you no image at all , and instances in the following lines : The gaping clouds pour lakes of fulphur down , Whofe livid flashes fick'ning fun beams drown . " What a noble confusion ! " adds that keen Writer : " Clouds , lakes ...
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... give a rough caft to our है language ; as when DEMOSTHENES fays , the " cities are fick ; and therefore he faw the neces- " sity of explaining himfelf , and accordingly « what he adds concerning the heads of their ci- " ties being ...
... give a rough caft to our है language ; as when DEMOSTHENES fays , the " cities are fick ; and therefore he faw the neces- " sity of explaining himfelf , and accordingly « what he adds concerning the heads of their ci- " ties being ...
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... give to what is in itself small and trifling , nor fhould we , like a cold blaft upon the opening buds and expanding blossoms of the spring , de- bafe a grand and important fubject by the intro- duction of groveling and inadequate ...
... give to what is in itself small and trifling , nor fhould we , like a cold blaft upon the opening buds and expanding blossoms of the spring , de- bafe a grand and important fubject by the intro- duction of groveling and inadequate ...
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... κατα τον Ξε * νοφώντα , τις τύτων οτι πορρωταίω σχετες απέτρεψεν , ” εδά μη καταίσχυνασα το τε ολε ζωες καλλώ . LONGIN . de Subli mitate , § 43 . 66 difcourfe . Of this method CICERO gives us an example TROPES CONSIDERED 19.
... κατα τον Ξε * νοφώντα , τις τύτων οτι πορρωταίω σχετες απέτρεψεν , ” εδά μη καταίσχυνασα το τε ολε ζωες καλλώ . LONGIN . de Subli mitate , § 43 . 66 difcourfe . Of this method CICERO gives us an example TROPES CONSIDERED 19.
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Page 391 - 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.
Page 225 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 335 - Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 237 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 342 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Page 276 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 347 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the most High.
Page 392 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 47 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 287 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.