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... manner in which art can most effectually furnish assistance for such a purpose , there may be diversity of opinions . I by no means pretend to say that mere rhetorical rules , how just soever , are sufficient to form an orator . Sup ...
... manner in which art can most effectually furnish assistance for such a purpose , there may be diversity of opinions . I by no means pretend to say that mere rhetorical rules , how just soever , are sufficient to form an orator . Sup ...
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... manner , we are led unavoid- ably to this conclusion , that there is some foundation for the preference of one man's ... manners , and strong represent- ations of passion . Others incline to more correct and regular elegance both in ...
... manner , we are led unavoid- ably to this conclusion , that there is some foundation for the preference of one man's ... manners , and strong represent- ations of passion . Others incline to more correct and regular elegance both in ...
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... manner ; which seems chiefly to arise from presenting the object to us in one full point of view ; so that it shall make its impression whole , entire , and undivided , upon the mind . A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our ...
... manner ; which seems chiefly to arise from presenting the object to us in one full point of view ; so that it shall make its impression whole , entire , and undivided , upon the mind . A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our ...
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... manner in which he writes , are particu- larly favourable to it . He possesses all the plain and venerable manner of the ancient times . He deals in no superfluous or gaudy ornaments ; but throws forth his images with a rapid ...
... manner in which he writes , are particu- larly favourable to it . He possesses all the plain and venerable manner of the ancient times . He deals in no superfluous or gaudy ornaments ; but throws forth his images with a rapid ...
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... manner ; when it is used to signify a certain grace and amenity , in the turn either of style or sentiment , for which some authors have been peculiarly dis- tinguished . In this sense , it denotes a manner neither remark- ably sublime ...
... manner ; when it is used to signify a certain grace and amenity , in the turn either of style or sentiment , for which some authors have been peculiarly dis- tinguished . In this sense , it denotes a manner neither remark- ably sublime ...
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Page 42 - In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscur'd : as when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, He, above the rest,
Page 31 - upon men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before iny face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still ; but I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before mine eyes ; there was
Page 374 - Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats ?'—Thus doth he expostulate severely with them, after the most graceful manner of the Eastern poetry. The issue of which is a plain and full resolution of the case, in those few words of the text,
Page 191 - Observe, for instance, what an inconsistent group of objects is brought together by Shakespeare, in the following passage of the Tempest ; speaking of persons recovering their judgment after the enchantment, which held them, was dissolved : - The charm dissolves apace, And as the. morning steals upon the night. Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Page 374 - them to me ; so that, as it follows, ' If I were hungry, yet would I not tell thee ; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.' But can ye be so gross and senseless as to think me liable to hunger and thirst? as to imagine that wants of
Page 192 - sometimes fall into this error of mixing metaphors. It is surprising how the following inaccuracy should have escaped Mr. Addison in his letter from Italy : I bridle in my struggling muse with pain. That longs to launch into a bolder strain.* The muse, figured as a horse, may be bridled; but when we speak of
Page 211 - 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. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man
Page 211 - 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 prisoners ? All the kings of the nations, even all of them lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave, like an abominable branch : and as the
Page 38 - shall be laid." There is a passage in the Psalms, which deserves to be mentioned under this head ; " God," says the Psalmist, " stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumults of the people." The joining together two such grand objects as the ragings of the waters and the tumults of the people, between which there is
Page 210 - O thou sword of the Lord ! how long will it be ere thou be quiet ! put thyself up into the scabbard, rest and be still ! How can it be quiet, seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea-shore ? there he hath appointed