Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1A. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1815 - 544 pages |
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... become feeble , the defects of his style can , al- most on every occasion , be traced back to his indistinct conception of the subject : so close is the connexion between thoughts and the words in which they are clothed . The study of ...
... become feeble , the defects of his style can , al- most on every occasion , be traced back to his indistinct conception of the subject : so close is the connexion between thoughts and the words in which they are clothed . The study of ...
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... become in persons whose trade or business leads to nice exertions of them . Touch , for instance , becomes infinitely more exquisite in men whose employment requires them to examine the polish of bodies , than it is in others . They who ...
... become in persons whose trade or business leads to nice exertions of them . Touch , for instance , becomes infinitely more exquisite in men whose employment requires them to examine the polish of bodies , than it is in others . They who ...
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... becomes glaring . For is there any one who will seriously maintain that the taste of a Hottentot or a Laplander is as delicate and as correct as that of a Longinus or an Addison ? or , that he can be charged with no defect or incapacity ...
... becomes glaring . For is there any one who will seriously maintain that the taste of a Hottentot or a Laplander is as delicate and as correct as that of a Longinus or an Addison ? or , that he can be charged with no defect or incapacity ...
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... become unprejudiced and dispassion- ate , will ever coincide at last . Instances , I admit , there are , of some works that contain gross transgressions of the laws of criticism , acquiring , nevertheless , a general , and even a ...
... become unprejudiced and dispassion- ate , will ever coincide at last . Instances , I admit , there are , of some works that contain gross transgressions of the laws of criticism , acquiring , nevertheless , a general , and even a ...
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... becomes a sublime one . From lions and other animals of strength , are drawn sublime comparisons in poets . A race ... become doub- ly so . Darkness is very commonly applied for adding sublimity to all our ideas of the Deity . " He ...
... becomes a sublime one . From lions and other animals of strength , are drawn sublime comparisons in poets . A race ... become doub- ly so . Darkness is very commonly applied for adding sublimity to all our ideas of the Deity . " He ...
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Page 453 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 171 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Page 26 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 171 - 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 456 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 451 - 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 171 - 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 prisoners...
Page 213 - 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 474 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 219 - 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.