The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page x
... thofe Reflections from what they had obferv'd of the Fate of Poetry and Eloquence ; when , after the Age of AUGUSTUS , Mimes , Cudgel - Players , and Bears , were preferr'd to true Comedy ; the Points of Martial to the happy Turns of ...
... thofe Reflections from what they had obferv'd of the Fate of Poetry and Eloquence ; when , after the Age of AUGUSTUS , Mimes , Cudgel - Players , and Bears , were preferr'd to true Comedy ; the Points of Martial to the happy Turns of ...
Page xii
... thofe who judge with Your Quick- nefs and Exactnefs ; but the Number of them is fo few , that it will be neceffary to explain it a little . For , as Images , in Painting , do not al- ways appear in the fame Light to all that fee them ...
... thofe who judge with Your Quick- nefs and Exactnefs ; but the Number of them is fo few , that it will be neceffary to explain it a little . For , as Images , in Painting , do not al- ways appear in the fame Light to all that fee them ...
Page xv
... thofe Thoughts are in that Sense true ; and I have endeavour'd to pro- vide an Antidote against what is poif'nous in them , by giving Inftances of all thofe different Kinds of Thinking out of English Writers , in Praise of the great ...
... thofe Thoughts are in that Sense true ; and I have endeavour'd to pro- vide an Antidote against what is poif'nous in them , by giving Inftances of all thofe different Kinds of Thinking out of English Writers , in Praise of the great ...
Page xxvi
... thofe Errors with Gra- titude and Pleafure . NOT only the Author's Distance from the Prefs , but the Difficulty of printing out of fo many Languages as the Quotations confift of , have occafion'd a few Er- ratas , which , however , are ...
... thofe Errors with Gra- titude and Pleafure . NOT only the Author's Distance from the Prefs , but the Difficulty of printing out of fo many Languages as the Quotations confift of , have occafion'd a few Er- ratas , which , however , are ...
Page 6
... thofe of that great O rator mentioned by Cicero ; Sententie Craffi tam integre , tam vere , tam nove , tam fine pigmentis fucoque puerili ; so found , fo true , fo new , fo uncommon , and free from all that falfe Brillant and Tenfel ...
... thofe of that great O rator mentioned by Cicero ; Sententie Craffi tam integre , tam vere , tam nove , tam fine pigmentis fucoque puerili ; so found , fo true , fo new , fo uncommon , and free from all that falfe Brillant and Tenfel ...
Other editions - View all
The Arts of Logick and Rhetorick [Adapted by J. Oldmixon from La Maniere de ... John Oldmixon,Dominique Bouhours No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
againſt agreeable alfo Antients Author Beauty becauſe better Boileau Cæfar call'd Cicero cou'd Cowley Critick Death Defire Delicacy delicate Difcourfe Dryden Duke dy'd Echard English Epigram Expreffion faid falfe fame Father Bouhours fays feems feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon fpeaking French ftill fuch fure Glory Gods Gratian Heart Heaven Heroes Hiftory himſelf Honour Hyperbole Inftance Jefuit juft King laft leaft lefs Lewis loft Lord Love Lucan Mafter moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature noble Nonfenfe Numbers Obfcurity obferves Occafion Orator Ovid Paffage Paffion Panegyrick Pere Bouhours Perfon pleaſe Poem Poet Poetry Pompey Praife prefent Prince Profe Quintilian Reader Reafon Senfe Soul ſpeaks Sublime Tacitus Taffo tells thee thefe themſelves there's theſe Thing thofe thoſe thou Thought Tranflation Truth underſtand Verfes Verſes Virgil Voiture whofe Word World wou'd write
Popular passages
Page 344 - Thus fell the greatest subject in power, and little inferior to any in fortune, that was at that time in any of the three kingdoms; who could well remember the time, when he led those people, who then pursued him to his grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with some addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illustrated by the other...
Page 369 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 91 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Page 61 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds, and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell, the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath, or in a solitary desert.
Page 93 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...
Page 296 - When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it.
Page 281 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Page 77 - Hither, as to their fountain , other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 231 - ... in a way so very becoming, that the air of the pretty gentleman is preserved, under the lowliness of the preacher. I...
Page 91 - ... of this earth ; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: she glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.