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... orator ought to be conversant in every department of learning . No art indeed can be contrived which can stamp merit on a composi- tion , rich or splendid in expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has ...
... orator ought to be conversant in every department of learning . No art indeed can be contrived which can stamp merit on a composi- tion , rich or splendid in expression , but barren or erroneous in sentiment . Oratory , it is true , has ...
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... orator . Private application and study , supposing natural genius to be favoura- ble , are certainly superior to any system of pub- lic instruction . But though rules and instruc- tions cannot effect every thing which is requisite ...
... orator . Private application and study , supposing natural genius to be favoura- ble , are certainly superior to any system of pub- lic instruction . But though rules and instruc- tions cannot effect every thing which is requisite ...
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... orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human mind . To have some discernment of beauty is no less essen- tial to man , than to possess the attributes of speech and reason . Though no human being can be ...
... orators . The principles of taste must therefore be deeply founded in the human mind . To have some discernment of beauty is no less essen- tial to man , than to possess the attributes of speech and reason . Though no human being can be ...
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... orator has of the object which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and animated by the sublime idea which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong emotion . Instances ...
... orator has of the object which he exhibits ; and upon his being deeply affected and animated by the sublime idea which he would convey . If his own feeling be languid , he can never inspire his reader with any strong emotion . Instances ...
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... orators , Cicero has more of the beautiful than Demosthenes , whose genius led him wholly toward vehemence and strength . So much it is necessary to have said upon the sub- ject of beauty ; since , next to sublimity , it is the most ...
... orators , Cicero has more of the beautiful than Demosthenes , whose genius led him wholly toward vehemence and strength . So much it is necessary to have said upon the sub- ject of beauty ; since , next to sublimity , it is the most ...
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Page 185 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
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 114 - 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.
Page 182 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato, to unfold What worlds or what vast regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
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 182 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
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 that are most agreeable to the imagination...
Page 185 - 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 174 - Saepibus in nostris parvam te roscida mala (dux ego vester eram) vidi cum matre legentem. alter ab undecimo tum me iam acceperat annus; iam fragilis poteram ab terra contingere ramos. 40 ut vidi ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error.
Page 186 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.