Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric: Abridged. With Questions |
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... genius to be favourable , are certainly superior to any system of public instruction . But , though rules and instructions cannot effect every thing which is requisite , they may be of considerable use . If they cannot inspire genius ...
... genius to be favourable , are certainly superior to any system of public instruction . But , though rules and instructions cannot effect every thing which is requisite , they may be of considerable use . If they cannot inspire genius ...
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... genius are no other than imitations of na- ture representations of the characters , actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether ...
... genius are no other than imitations of na- ture representations of the characters , actions , or manners of men . Now the pleasure we experience from such imitations or representations , is founded on mere taste ; but to judge , whether ...
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... genius ; such as the Iliad of Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have attained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with ...
... genius ; such as the Iliad of Homer , and the Eneid of Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have attained , as standards of poetical composition ; since by them we are enabled to collect , what the sense of mankind is , with ...
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... GENIUS . - PLEASURES OF TASTE . - SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS . TRUE criticism is the application of taste and of good sense to the several fine arts . Its design is to distinguish , what is beautiful , and what is faulty , in every ...
... GENIUS . - PLEASURES OF TASTE . - SUBLIMITY IN OBJECTS . TRUE criticism is the application of taste and of good sense to the several fine arts . Its design is to distinguish , what is beautiful , and what is faulty , in every ...
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... genius alone , he composed in verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , is no argument against the usefulness of criticism . For since no human genius is perfect there is no writer who may not ...
... genius alone , he composed in verse a regular story , which all succeeding ages have admired . This , however , is no argument against the usefulness of criticism . For since no human genius is perfect there is no writer who may not ...
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Page 22 - And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 96 - 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 215 - Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 123 - The sense of feeling c-an 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, and distance of its particular objects.
Page 128 - 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. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees...
Page 219 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me. He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God...
Page 99 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Page 217 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 23 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 177 - 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...