| Lindley Murray - English language - 1807 - 290 pages
...Treatise on Education : " We shall conduct you to a hill side, laborious indeed, at the first assent ; but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charwing." Every thing in this sentence conspires... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1808 - 330 pages
...following from Milton : " We shall conduct you to a hill« side, laborious iadeed at thevfirst asceirt ; but else, so \. « smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospects and ! .-" melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Or" pheus was not more charming." Every thing in this sentence conspires... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...melody's suffering. For, let us observe, how finely the members of the period - swell one above another. " So smooth, so green," — " so full of goodly prospects, — and melodious sounds on every side;" — till the ear, prepared by this gradual rise, is conducted to that full close on... | |
| Jonathan Morgan - English language - 1814 - 298 pages
...indulging parent." We will now quote a sentence, which conforms very well to the above rule. " We shall conduct you to a hillside, laborious indeed, at the...melodious sounds, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming." §4. Of CONFIGURATION. [398] Configuration is the judicious use of the figures of speech.... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...melody suffering. For, let us observe, how finely the members of the period swell one above another. ' So smooth, 'so green.' — 'so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side ;' — till the ear, prepared by this gradual rise, is conducted to that full close on... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1820 - 388 pages
...melody's suffering. For, let us ohserve, how finely the memhers of the period swell one ahove another. '; So smooth, so green," ^ — "so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds on every side;" — lill the ear, prepared hy this gradual rise, is conducted to t:iat full close on... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pages
...melody suffering. For, let us observe, how finely the members of the Period swell one above another. " So smooth, so green,"-* " so full of goodly prospects, and melodious sounds "on every side;" — till the ear, prepared by this gradual rise, is conducted to that full close on... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...' I will conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, ьо green, so full of goodly prospects and melodious sounds,...of individuality in the royal and literary plural vc, the age has at last adopted the right legitimate Spanish formula of " I the King" : our writers,... | |
| 1822 - 592 pages
...and saw would lead us to augur well of the morals and simple habits of these secluded mountaineers. PORTRAIT OF A SEPTUAGENARY; BY HIMSELF. " I will conduct...of Orpheus was not half so charming." AFTER all the critical.denunciations against the unfortunate wight, who suffered the smallest inkling of himself... | |
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