Constructive Rhetoric

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H. Holt, 1896 - 352 頁

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第 124 頁 - It has been said that each of these poems has a purpose. Another circumstance must be mentioned which distinguishes these Poems from the popular Poetry of the day; it is this, that the feeling therein developed gives importance to the action and situation, and not the action and situation to the
第 275 頁 - What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements, which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
第 122 頁 - relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your Colonies, and disturbs your government. These are: to change that spirit as inconvenient, by removing the causes; to prosecute it as criminal; or to comply with it as necessary. I would not be guilty of an
第 308 頁 - His thoughts resemble those celestial fruits and flowers which the Virgin Martyr of Massinger sent down from the gardens of Paradise to the earth, and which were distinguished from the productions of other soils, not only by superior bloom and sweetness, but by miraculous efficacy to invigorate and heal.
第 138 頁 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be, which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey. We trust, however, that this feeling will not betray us into that abject idolatry,
第 316 頁 - And the four following facts may be mentioned, as noticeable at this time: " I. That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point,—that whatsoever I happened to call up and trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was
第 197 頁 - as the writer's aim, consciously or unconsciously, comes to be the transcribing, not of the world, not of mere fact, but of his sense of it, he becomes an artist, his work fine art; and good art (as I hope ultimately to show) in proportion to the truth of his presentment of that sense.
第 41 頁 - of the middle-aged by its beauty, and rivets the fidelity of the old by its associations. It is a seat of wisdom, a minister of the faith, an Alma Mater of the rising generation. It is this and a great deal more, and demands a somewhat better head and hand than mine to describe it
第 300 頁 - which the wind clriveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
第 64 頁 - Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my city is that word from of old, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid founded.

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