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... sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by ...
... sometimes thought to signify nothing more than the scholastic study of words , and phrases , and tropes , so criticism has been considered as merely the art of finding faults ; as the frigid application of certain technical terms , by ...
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... sometimes strike in the same manner the philosopher and the peasant ; the boy and the man . Hence the faculty by which we relish such beauties , seems more allied to a feeling of sense , than to a process of the understanding ; and ...
... sometimes strike in the same manner the philosopher and the peasant ; the boy and the man . Hence the faculty by which we relish such beauties , seems more allied to a feeling of sense , than to a process of the understanding ; and ...
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... sometimes the state of religion , sometimes the form of go- vernment , may for a while pervert it ; a licentious court may intro- duce a taste for false ornaments , and dissolute writings . The usage of one admired genius may procure ...
... sometimes the state of religion , sometimes the form of go- vernment , may for a while pervert it ; a licentious court may intro- duce a taste for false ornaments , and dissolute writings . The usage of one admired genius may procure ...
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... sometimes flash upon us like lightning from heaven , and then disappear . In Homer and Milton , this effulgence of genius breaks forth more frequently , and with greater lustre , than in most authors . Shakespeare also rises often into ...
... sometimes flash upon us like lightning from heaven , and then disappear . In Homer and Milton , this effulgence of genius breaks forth more frequently , and with greater lustre , than in most authors . Shakespeare also rises often into ...
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... sometimes fall , by unluckily loosing sight of the true point of the sublime . This is also called fustian , or rant . Shakespeare , a great but incorrect genius , is not unexceptionable here . Dryden and Lee , in their tragedies abound ...
... sometimes fall , by unluckily loosing sight of the true point of the sublime . This is also called fustian , or rant . Shakespeare , a great but incorrect genius , is not unexceptionable here . Dryden and Lee , in their tragedies abound ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: In Three Volumes, Volume 3 Hugh Blair No preview available - 2016 |
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint) Hugh Blair No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 453 - And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water : in the habitation of dragons where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 171 - 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. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Page 26 - 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...
Page 171 - 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 456 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 451 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 171 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
Page 213 - 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.
Page 474 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man, in the land of Canaan ; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 219 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.