Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresG. & C. & H. Carvill, 1829 - 557 pages |
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... described . Unless it be such an object as , if pre- sented to our eyes , if exhibited to us in reality , would raise ideas of that elevating , that awful and magnificent kind , which we call sub- lime ; the description , however finely ...
... described . Unless it be such an object as , if pre- sented to our eyes , if exhibited to us in reality , would raise ideas of that elevating , that awful and magnificent kind , which we call sub- lime ; the description , however finely ...
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... into the engagement , is described as shaking the mountains with his steps , and driving his chariot along the ocean . Minerva , arming herself for fight in the vth book ; and Apollo , in the xvth ( 40 [ LECT . IV . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
... into the engagement , is described as shaking the mountains with his steps , and driving his chariot along the ocean . Minerva , arming herself for fight in the vth book ; and Apollo , in the xvth ( 40 [ LECT . IV . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
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... objects does this exclude ? How must the object be set before us , and described ? On this , what princi- pally depends ? If his own feelings be languid , what will be the consequence ? site to LECT IV . ] 49 SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
... objects does this exclude ? How must the object be set before us , and described ? On this , what princi- pally depends ? If his own feelings be languid , what will be the consequence ? site to LECT IV . ] 49 SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
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... described , the notification which it made of objects was still very imperfect : for , when one mentioned to another in discourse , any substantive noun , such as , man , lion , or tree , how was it to be known which man , which lion ...
... described , the notification which it made of objects was still very imperfect : for , when one mentioned to another in discourse , any substantive noun , such as , man , lion , or tree , how was it to be known which man , which lion ...
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... described by Quintilian : Est in quibusdam turba inanium verbo- rum , qui dum communem loquendi morem reformidant , ducti specie nitoris , circumeunt omnia copiosa loquacitate quæ dicere volunt.'t Lib . vii . cap . 2 . Characterist ...
... described by Quintilian : Est in quibusdam turba inanium verbo- rum , qui dum communem loquendi morem reformidant , ducti specie nitoris , circumeunt omnia copiosa loquacitate quæ dicere volunt.'t Lib . vii . cap . 2 . Characterist ...
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Page 459 - 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.
Page 462 - 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.
Page 459 - 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.
Page 221 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures, that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description,* and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
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Page 216 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
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Page 481 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.