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... poetical style give us a greater command of sound ; assisted , too , by the versification , and that cantus obscurior , to which we are naturally led in reading poetry . The sounds of words may be employed for representing , Hitherto of ...
... poetical style give us a greater command of sound ; assisted , too , by the versification , and that cantus obscurior , to which we are naturally led in reading poetry . The sounds of words may be employed for representing , Hitherto of ...
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... poetical , is , still , harsh and obscure ; owing to this cause only , that three distinct meta phors are crowded together to describe the difficulty of Pollio's writing a history of the civil wars . The mind finds it difficult to pass ...
... poetical , is , still , harsh and obscure ; owing to this cause only , that three distinct meta phors are crowded together to describe the difficulty of Pollio's writing a history of the civil wars . The mind finds it difficult to pass ...
Page 157
... what is an obvious rule with respect to style ; and what is awkward and absurd ? speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , 14 LECT . 19. ] 157 FORMING STYLE . sition be past; till the partiality for our expressions ...
... what is an obvious rule with respect to style ; and what is awkward and absurd ? speak in public . To attempt a poetical style , 14 LECT . 19. ] 157 FORMING STYLE . sition be past; till the partiality for our expressions ...
Page 158
... poetical style , when it should be our business to argue and reason only , is , in the highest degree , awkward and absurd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words , before those who cannot comprehend them , is equally ridiculous and ...
... poetical style , when it should be our business to argue and reason only , is , in the highest degree , awkward and absurd . To speak with elaborate pomp of words , before those who cannot comprehend them , is equally ridiculous and ...
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... poetical preaching is fashionable , and sometimes philosophical : at one time it must be all pathetic ; at another all argumen- tative , according as some celebrated preacher has set the example . Each of these modes , in the extreme ...
... poetical preaching is fashionable , and sometimes philosophical : at one time it must be all pathetic ; at another all argumen- tative , according as some celebrated preacher has set the example . Each of these modes , in the extreme ...
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Page 302 - I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach Light to counterfeit a gloom, 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 305 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 305 - Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Page 32 - Commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 103 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 301 - Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne A sliding car indebted to no wheels, But urged by storms along its slippery way ; I love thee, all unlovely as thou seemest, And dreaded as thou art.
Page 170 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Page 308 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, 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 125 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 101 - And when we look upon their machines, Homer seems like his own Jupiter, in his terrors, shaking Olympus, scattering the lightnings, and firing the heavens; Virgil, like the same power, in his benevolence, counselling with the gods, laying plans for empires, and ordering his whole creation.