Essays on rhetoric: abridged chiefly from dr. Blair's lectures on that scienceJ. Murray, 1784 - 384 pages |
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... of mankind was then very prone to admiration and astonishment . Meet- ing continually with new and strange objects , their imagination was kept glow- glowing , and their paffions were often raised to the 36 SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
... of mankind was then very prone to admiration and astonishment . Meet- ing continually with new and strange objects , their imagination was kept glow- glowing , and their paffions were often raised to the 36 SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
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Hugh Blair. glowing , and their paffions were often raised to the utmoft . They thought , and expreffed themfelves boldly , and without reftraint . In the progress of fociety , the genius and manners of men have undergone a change more ...
Hugh Blair. glowing , and their paffions were often raised to the utmoft . They thought , and expreffed themfelves boldly , and without reftraint . In the progress of fociety , the genius and manners of men have undergone a change more ...
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... raises it confiderably above its common pitch . A fpecies of en- thufiafm is produced , extremely plea- fing while it lafts ; but from which the mind is tending every moment to fink into its ordinary ftate . When an author , therefore ...
... raises it confiderably above its common pitch . A fpecies of en- thufiafm is produced , extremely plea- fing while it lafts ; but from which the mind is tending every moment to fink into its ordinary ftate . When an author , therefore ...
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... raised , but the thought is degraded . In ge- neral it may be obferved , that the fub- lime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the thought is really noble , it will generally clothe itself in a native majefty of language ...
... raised , but the thought is degraded . In ge- neral it may be obferved , that the fub- lime lies in the thought , not in the words ; and when the thought is really noble , it will generally clothe itself in a native majefty of language ...
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... raise in us a feeling fimilar to that of Beauty . There are two great claffes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the great virtues , which require extraordinary efforts , and is founded on dangers and fufferings ; as heroism ...
... raise in us a feeling fimilar to that of Beauty . There are two great claffes of moral qualities ; one is of the high and the great virtues , which require extraordinary efforts , and is founded on dangers and fufferings ; as heroism ...
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