Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-lettresS.G. Goodrich, 1822 - 144 頁 |
搜尋書籍內容
第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 10 筆
第 7 頁
... perfect , and every writer and artist may receive assistance from critical observations upon the beauties and faults of those who have gone before them . Q. Are not Critics great abridgers of the native liberty of genius ? A. No. For ...
... perfect , and every writer and artist may receive assistance from critical observations upon the beauties and faults of those who have gone before them . Q. Are not Critics great abridgers of the native liberty of genius ? A. No. For ...
第 21 頁
... perfect . It is even made an in- strument of the most refined luxury . Q. How may we well contemplate it ? A. With the highest astonishment ; but , like the expanse of the firmament , it has be- come familiar , and we behold it without ...
... perfect . It is even made an in- strument of the most refined luxury . Q. How may we well contemplate it ? A. With the highest astonishment ; but , like the expanse of the firmament , it has be- come familiar , and we behold it without ...
第 25 頁
... perfect records ? A. No. They could delineate external events , but could convey no idea of the dispo- sitions or words of men . Q. What arose , in process of time , to sup- ply this defect ? A. Hieroglyphical Characters . Q. How did ...
... perfect records ? A. No. They could delineate external events , but could convey no idea of the dispo- sitions or words of men . Q. What arose , in process of time , to sup- ply this defect ? A. Hieroglyphical Characters . Q. How did ...
第 30 頁
... perfect sentence can be formed without a Verb expressed or implied . Q. What was probably the radical Verb , or the first form of it ? A. The Impersonal Verb ; as " it rains ; " " it thunders . " Q. What do the tenses of Verbs imply ? A ...
... perfect sentence can be formed without a Verb expressed or implied . Q. What was probably the radical Verb , or the first form of it ? A. The Impersonal Verb ; as " it rains ; " " it thunders . " Q. What do the tenses of Verbs imply ? A ...
第 31 頁
... perfect of all the known tongues . Q. What are auxiliary Verbs ? A. Words , like prepositions , of a general and abstract nature , implying different modifi- cations of simple existence , without reference to any particular thing . Q ...
... perfect of all the known tongues . Q. What are auxiliary Verbs ? A. Words , like prepositions , of a general and abstract nature , implying different modifi- cations of simple existence , without reference to any particular thing . Q ...
其他版本 - 查看全部
常見字詞
action Addison Æneid ages agreeable ancient animated Aristotle attention beauty blank verse book of Job Cæsar character chiefly Cicero clear colours Comedy composition concise connexion correct Dean Swift Demosthenes didactic dignity discourse distinct distinguished Dryden effect elegant Eloisa to Abelard eloquence eminent employed English epic poem Epic Poetry excel expression favourable figure French genius give grandeur Greek hearers Herodotus historian ideas Iliad imagination Imitation ject kind language Livy Lyric Poetry manner ment Metaphors Milton mind modern moral narration nature ness never object Orator ornament passion pastoral perspicuity philosophical pleasures poet poetical poetry Polybius preacher principal propriety pulpit racter renders ride to town Roman rule scenes sense sentence sentiments sermons simplicity sound speak speaker speech spirit strength style sublime Tacitus Taste Theocritus thing thought Thucidydes tion Tragedy unity Verb versation verse Virgil Whence words writing
熱門章節
第 46 頁 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
第 47 頁 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
第 140 頁 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in 'a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
第 134 頁 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
第 140 頁 - He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows than another does in the possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of property in every thing he sees, and makes the most rude uncultivated parts of nature administer to his pleasures: so that he looks upon the world, as it were, in another light, and discovers in it a multitude of charms that conceal themselves from the generality of mankind.
第 141 頁 - There are indeed but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or have a relish of any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion they take is at the expense of some one virtue or another, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly.
第 142 頁 - ... 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. For this reason Sir Francis Bacon, in his Essay upon Health,' has not thought it improper to prescribe to his reader a poem or a prospect, where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories,...
第 141 頁 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.
第 39 頁 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
第 14 頁 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor...