Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 pages |
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... o'er the Libyan coasts † . The word Thunderbolt is not to be understood in its original fenfe , but , being transformed into a Trope , signifies the martial terrors , and the rapid and irresistible conquefts of those two renowned ...
... o'er the Libyan coasts † . The word Thunderbolt is not to be understood in its original fenfe , but , being transformed into a Trope , signifies the martial terrors , and the rapid and irresistible conquefts of those two renowned ...
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... o'er the Libyan coasts † . The word Thunderbolt is not to be understood in its original fenfe , but , being transformed into a Trope , signifies the martial terrors , and the rapid and irresistible conquefts of those two renowned ...
... o'er the Libyan coasts † . The word Thunderbolt is not to be understood in its original fenfe , but , being transformed into a Trope , signifies the martial terrors , and the rapid and irresistible conquefts of those two renowned ...
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... o'er A jarring heap of limbs with various plumes . From diff'rent birds , and end the motley piece , That open'd with a virgin's bloom of charms , With the foul volumes of a fifhes tail , Could you reftrain your laughter at the fight ...
... o'er A jarring heap of limbs with various plumes . From diff'rent birds , and end the motley piece , That open'd with a virgin's bloom of charms , With the foul volumes of a fifhes tail , Could you reftrain your laughter at the fight ...
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... o'er pale Britannia paft ) Calm and ferene he drives the furious blaft ; And pleas'd th ' Almighty's orders to perform , Rides on the whirlwind , and directs the storm * * ADDISON's Campaign . E 3 , CHAPTER CHAPTER III . The ALLEGORY ...
... o'er pale Britannia paft ) Calm and ferene he drives the furious blaft ; And pleas'd th ' Almighty's orders to perform , Rides on the whirlwind , and directs the storm * * ADDISON's Campaign . E 3 , CHAPTER CHAPTER III . The ALLEGORY ...
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... o'er thee groan ; Bending beneath the heavy blast , Soon must thou fee it rufhing down . In vain thy keel attempts to plow The wave , and conflict with the tide No cords to bind thy planks haft thou , Tho ' all are ftarting from thy ...
... o'er thee groan ; Bending beneath the heavy blast , Soon must thou fee it rufhing down . In vain thy keel attempts to plow The wave , and conflict with the tide No cords to bind thy planks haft thou , Tho ' all are ftarting from thy ...
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Page 391 - For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 225 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 335 - Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Page 237 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 342 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Page 276 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Page 347 - 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 392 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 47 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 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 287 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.