An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric |
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... Modern Eloquence 121 Eloquence of Popular Assemblies Eloquence of the Bar Eloquence of the Pulpit · 125 128 133 Conduct of a Discourse in all its Parts . - Introduc- tion , -Division , Narration , and Explication . 137 The Argumentative ...
... Modern Eloquence 121 Eloquence of Popular Assemblies Eloquence of the Bar Eloquence of the Pulpit · 125 128 133 Conduct of a Discourse in all its Parts . - Introduc- tion , -Division , Narration , and Explication . 137 The Argumentative ...
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... modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the description of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of representing it . What an ...
... modern , the Sacred Scriptures afford the most striking instances of the sublime . In them the description of the Supreme Being are wonderfully noble , both from the grandeur of the object , and the manner of representing it . What an ...
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... modern language . As terms in- crease in every nation , and the vast field of language is filled up , words , by a thousand fanciful and irregu lar methods of derivation and composition , deviate widely from the primitive character of ...
... modern language . As terms in- crease in every nation , and the vast field of language is filled up , words , by a thousand fanciful and irregu lar methods of derivation and composition , deviate widely from the primitive character of ...
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... modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their oraters , and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage , approached to the nature of recitative in music ; was capable of being marked ...
... modern pronunciation would have seemed to them a lifeless monotony . The declamation of their oraters , and the pronunciation of their actors upon the stage , approached to the nature of recitative in music ; was capable of being marked ...
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... modern lan- guage ? What are words as we now use them ? What mode of speaking came next after the invention of interjections ? Was this mode of speaking continued ? What is said of the declamation of the Greek and Roman orators ? Is the ...
... modern lan- guage ? What are words as we now use them ? What mode of speaking came next after the invention of interjections ? Was this mode of speaking continued ? What is said of the declamation of the Greek and Roman orators ? Is the ...
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Page 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
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 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 25 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 110 - 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,...
Page 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.