Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1. köidePress of M. Carey, March 19, 1793 |
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... musical structure of periods : a fubject , for which the Greek language afforded much more affiance to their writers , than our tongue - ad- mits . On the arrangement of words , in English fentences , the xviiich chapter of lord Kaims's ...
... musical structure of periods : a fubject , for which the Greek language afforded much more affiance to their writers , than our tongue - ad- mits . On the arrangement of words , in English fentences , the xviiich chapter of lord Kaims's ...
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... music of the fentence is utterly lot . In the harmonious ftructure and dif- pofition of periods , no writer whatever , ancient or modern , equals Cicero . He had ftudied this with care ; and was fond , perhaps to excefs , of what he ...
... music of the fentence is utterly lot . In the harmonious ftructure and dif- pofition of periods , no writer whatever , ancient or modern , equals Cicero . He had ftudied this with care ; and was fond , perhaps to excefs , of what he ...
Page 234
... musical pro- nunciation . It is farther known , that , in confequence of the genius of their languages , and of their manner of pronouncing them , the musical arrangement of fentences , did , in fact , produce a greater effect in public ...
... musical pro- nunciation . It is farther known , that , in confequence of the genius of their languages , and of their manner of pronouncing them , the musical arrangement of fentences , did , in fact , produce a greater effect in public ...
Page 242
... music in all his fentences ; and he is peculiarly happy in this refpect , that he has avoided the monotony in- to which writers , who ftudy the grace of found , are very apt to fall : having diverfified his periods with great variety ...
... music in all his fentences ; and he is peculiarly happy in this refpect , that he has avoided the monotony in- to which writers , who ftudy the grace of found , are very apt to fall : having diverfified his periods with great variety ...
Page 243
... music . We may remark two degrees of it : First , the cur- rent of found , adapted to the tenor of a difcourfe : next , a particular resemblance effected between fome object , and the founds that are employed in defcribing it . Fift , I ...
... music . We may remark two degrees of it : First , the cur- rent of found , adapted to the tenor of a difcourfe : next , a particular resemblance effected between fome object , and the founds that are employed in defcribing it . Fift , I ...
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Page 47 - 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: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 309 - 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.
Page 309 - Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 64 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 56 - 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.
Page 389 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 287 - 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 403 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Page 58 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 181 - Entire, complete. — A thing is entire, by wanting none of its parts ; complete, by wanting none of the appendages that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself, and yet not have one complete apartment.