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... Means of Improving in Eloquence 155 Historical Writing . Epistolary Writing Pronunciation or Delivery Comparative Merit of the Ancients and Moderns 161 Philosophical Writing and Dialogue Fictitious History Nature of Poetry . - Its ...
... Means of Improving in Eloquence 155 Historical Writing . Epistolary Writing Pronunciation or Delivery Comparative Merit of the Ancients and Moderns 161 Philosophical Writing and Dialogue Fictitious History Nature of Poetry . - Its ...
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... mean , or even to the gay or trifling , changes the tone of the emotion . What is commonly called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation what- ever to the true sublime . Writers are apt to imagine ...
... mean , or even to the gay or trifling , changes the tone of the emotion . What is commonly called the sublime style , is for the most part a very bad one , and has no relation what- ever to the true sublime . Writers are apt to imagine ...
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... mean conception of it , or by a weak , low , or puerile description of it . This betrays entire ab- sence , or , at least , extreme poverty of genius . The bombast lies in forcing a common or trivial object out of its rank , and in ...
... mean conception of it , or by a weak , low , or puerile description of it . This betrays entire ab- sence , or , at least , extreme poverty of genius . The bombast lies in forcing a common or trivial object out of its rank , and in ...
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... means of producing the same end ; and consequently make different im- pressions on the mind . What next to sublimity affords the highest pleasure to the imagination ? How is its emotion distinguished from that of the sublime ? Which ...
... means of producing the same end ; and consequently make different im- pressions on the mind . What next to sublimity affords the highest pleasure to the imagination ? How is its emotion distinguished from that of the sublime ? Which ...
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... means upon certain signs ; yet , by what authority could these be so propagated among other tribes or families , as to grow up into a language ? One would imagine that men must have been previously gathered together in considerable ...
... means upon certain signs ; yet , by what authority could these be so propagated among other tribes or families , as to grow up into a language ? One would imagine that men must have been previously gathered together in considerable ...
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Page 187 - 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.
Page 173 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Page 28 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 88 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 22 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 74 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 187 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 25 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.