Lectures on rhetoric &cT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1820 |
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... never maintain its ground long . Knowledge and science must furnish the materials that form the body and substance of any valuable composition . Rhetoric serves to add the polish ; and we know that none but firm and solid bodies can be ...
... never maintain its ground long . Knowledge and science must furnish the materials that form the body and substance of any valuable composition . Rhetoric serves to add the polish ; and we know that none but firm and solid bodies can be ...
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Hugh Blair. by that torrent of false and frivolous taste , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to sweep along with it the raw and the ignorant . They who have never studied eloquence in its principles , nor have been trained to ...
Hugh Blair. by that torrent of false and frivolous taste , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to sweep along with it the raw and the ignorant . They who have never studied eloquence in its principles , nor have been trained to ...
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... never all at once acquired . It is gradually formed by being con- versant among pictures , and studying the works of the best masters . Precisely in the same manner , with respect to the beauty of composition and discourse , attention ...
... never all at once acquired . It is gradually formed by being con- versant among pictures , and studying the works of the best masters . Precisely in the same manner , with respect to the beauty of composition and discourse , attention ...
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... never imposed on by counterfeit beauties ; who carries always in his mind that stand- ard of good sense which he employs in judging of every thing . He estimates with propriety the com- parative merit of the several beauties which he ...
... never imposed on by counterfeit beauties ; who carries always in his mind that stand- ard of good sense which he employs in judging of every thing . He estimates with propriety the com- parative merit of the several beauties which he ...
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... never- theless , that what pleases universally , must on that account be held to be truly beautiful ; and that no rules or conclusions con- cerning objects of taste can have any just authority , if they be found to contradict the ...
... never- theless , that what pleases universally , must on that account be held to be truly beautiful ; and that no rules or conclusions con- cerning objects of taste can have any just authority , if they be found to contradict the ...
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Page 330 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 330 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north : I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the Most High.
Page 411 - 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 331 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, " and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made " the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; " That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed " the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
Page 57 - 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 64 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 330 - He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Page 420 - I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece. Such are the prospects of an open champaign country, a vast uncultivated desert, of huge heaps of mountains, high rocks and precipices, or a wide expanse of waters, where we are not struck with the novelty or beauty of the sight, but with that rude kind of magnificence which appears in many of these stupendous works of Nature.
Page 208 - By greatness, I do not only mean the bulk of any single object, but the largeness of a whole view, considered as one entire piece.
Page 281 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.