Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1. köideA. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1787 |
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... given rife to the word Tafte in the metapho- rical meaning under which we now confider it . However , as , in all fubjects which regard the operations of the mind , the inaccurate ufe of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be ...
... given rife to the word Tafte in the metapho- rical meaning under which we now confider it . However , as , in all fubjects which regard the operations of the mind , the inaccurate ufe of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be ...
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... given upon the publication of any new work . There are both a great vulgar and a fmall , apt to be catched and dazzled by very fuperficial beauties , the admiration of which , in a little time paffes away and fometimes a writer may ...
... given upon the publication of any new work . There are both a great vulgar and a fmall , apt to be catched and dazzled by very fuperficial beauties , the admiration of which , in a little time paffes away and fometimes a writer may ...
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... later writers , who had far in- ferior Genius to them , would have taught them to avoid . As all human perfection is limited , this may very probably be the law of our na- ture , • III . ture , that it is not given to 54 GENIU S.
... later writers , who had far in- ferior Genius to them , would have taught them to avoid . As all human perfection is limited , this may very probably be the law of our na- ture , • III . ture , that it is not given to 54 GENIU S.
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Hugh Blair. III . ture , that it is not given to one man to exe- LECT . cute with vigour and fire , and , at the fame time , to attend to all the leffer and more refined graces that belong to the exact perfection of his work : While , on ...
Hugh Blair. III . ture , that it is not given to one man to exe- LECT . cute with vigour and fire , and , at the fame time , to attend to all the leffer and more refined graces that belong to the exact perfection of his work : While , on ...
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... given us of the appearances of fupernatural Beings , carry fome Sublimity , though the conceptions which they afford us be confused and indiftinct . Their Sublimity arifes from the ideas , which they always con- vey , of fuperior power ...
... given us of the appearances of fupernatural Beings , carry fome Sublimity , though the conceptions which they afford us be confused and indiftinct . Their Sublimity arifes from the ideas , which they always con- vey , of fuperior power ...
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Page 75 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 62 - 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 426 - 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 426 - 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 395 - 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 85 - 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 427 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Page 66 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 79 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Page 416 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...