Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 2Thomas Kirk, 1807 |
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... Pastoral Poetry .... Lyric Poetry .. XL . Didactic Poetry .... Descriptive Poetry . · XLI . The Poetry of the Hebrews .. XLII . Epic Poetry ...... · 102 119 135 149 165 181 196 213 231 .. 247 · 263 Leet . Page XLIII . Homer's Iliad and ...
... Pastoral Poetry .... Lyric Poetry .. XL . Didactic Poetry .... Descriptive Poetry . · XLI . The Poetry of the Hebrews .. XLII . Epic Poetry ...... · 102 119 135 149 165 181 196 213 231 .. 247 · 263 Leet . Page XLIII . Homer's Iliad and ...
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... pastors are obliged , there is more reason to wonder that we hear se many instructive , and even Eloquent sermons , than that we hear so few . 粤 viction . The understanding must always be applied to 48 ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . LECT ...
... pastors are obliged , there is more reason to wonder that we hear se many instructive , and even Eloquent sermons , than that we hear so few . 粤 viction . The understanding must always be applied to 48 ELOQUENCE OF THE PULPIT . LECT ...
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... the couplet ; and frequently takes the li- berty of making his couplets run into one another , with some- what of the freedom of blank verse . 213 LECTURE XXXIX . PASTORAL POETRY .... LYRIC POETRY . 212 VERSIFICATION . LECT . XXXVIII .
... the couplet ; and frequently takes the li- berty of making his couplets run into one another , with some- what of the freedom of blank verse . 213 LECTURE XXXIX . PASTORAL POETRY .... LYRIC POETRY . 212 VERSIFICATION . LECT . XXXVIII .
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... pastoral and lyric poetry . Though I begin with the consideration of pastoral poetry , it is not because I consider it as one of the earliest forms of poe- tical composition . On the contrary , I am of opinion that it - was not ...
... pastoral and lyric poetry . Though I begin with the consideration of pastoral poetry , it is not because I consider it as one of the earliest forms of poe- tical composition . On the contrary , I am of opinion that it - was not ...
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... pastoral poetry assumed its present form . Men then began to look back upon the more simple and inno- cent life , which their forefathers led , or which , at least , they fancied them to have led : they looked back upon it with plea ...
... pastoral poetry assumed its present form . Men then began to look back upon the more simple and inno- cent life , which their forefathers led , or which , at least , they fancied them to have led : they looked back upon it with plea ...
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Page 239 - 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 243 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 247 - 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 255 - 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 248 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Page 254 - 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 67 - Gather my saints together unto me ; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness : for God is judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, 0 my people, and I will speak; 0 Israel, and I will testify against thee : I am God, even thy God.
Page 14 - ... semperque in omni parte orationis , ut vitae, quid deceat, est considerandum : quod et in re, de qua agitur , positum est, et in personis et eorum , qui dicunt , et eorum , qui audiunt.
Page 307 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others ; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Page 251 - 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.