Elements of Literature, Or, An Introduction to the Study of Rhetoric and Belles LettresJ.B. Lippincott, 1849 - 268 pages |
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... Examples . - The Iliad , Paradise Lost , Bossuet Disc . Hist . Univ . , Alexander , Cæsar , St. Peter of Rome , Mahomet . SECT . V. OF RULES . 19. Genius and even talent , having in themselves , in their moments of inspiration , the ...
... Examples . - The Iliad , Paradise Lost , Bossuet Disc . Hist . Univ . , Alexander , Cæsar , St. Peter of Rome , Mahomet . SECT . V. OF RULES . 19. Genius and even talent , having in themselves , in their moments of inspiration , the ...
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... Example of a thought which is both true and just : " Our revolution had its origin , not so much in the weight of actual oppression , as in the great principle , —the sacred duty , of resistance to the exercise of unauthorized power ...
... Example of a thought which is both true and just : " Our revolution had its origin , not so much in the weight of actual oppression , as in the great principle , —the sacred duty , of resistance to the exercise of unauthorized power ...
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... Example of a thought which is not just : " Might constitutes right . " " La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure . " Example of a false thought : " Nature in herself is unseemly , and he who copies her servilely , and without ...
... Example of a thought which is not just : " Might constitutes right . " " La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure . " Example of a false thought : " Nature in herself is unseemly , and he who copies her servilely , and without ...
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... Example . " Death spares no one . " " La tristesse ne dure pas toujours . " 32. A simple thought is the representation of an object , neither lofty nor mean , such as it actually is , without the appearance of art or labour in the ex ...
... Example . " Death spares no one . " " La tristesse ne dure pas toujours . " 32. A simple thought is the representation of an object , neither lofty nor mean , such as it actually is , without the appearance of art or labour in the ex ...
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... Example . The rising of the sun is a common object , but Thomson renders it a new and even a magnificent image in these lines : " But yonder comes the powerful king of day , Rejoicing in the east.- " " Death spares no one , " is a ...
... Example . The rising of the sun is a common object , but Thomson renders it a new and even a magnificent image in these lines : " But yonder comes the powerful king of day , Rejoicing in the east.- " " Death spares no one , " is a ...
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Page 66 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 58 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 84 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God : he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears. Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
Page 41 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 74 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 57 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 182 - Or find some ruin midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds or driving rain Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires ; And hears their simple bell ; and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Page 182 - Winter yelling through the troublous air, Affrights thy shrinking train, And rudely rends thy robes : So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name ! ODE TO PEACE.
Page 62 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 86 - I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.