Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples. For the Use of Common Schools and Academies. Including, Also, a Succinct History of the English Language, and of British and American Literatrue from the Earliest to the Present Times. On the Basis of the Recent Works of Alexander Reid and Robert Connel; with Large Additions from Other Sources |
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... Sublime in Writing Page 42 % gatsef I. STYLE . IX . Of Style and Idiom 51 X. Of different Kinds of Style . 51 XI . Perspicuity 53 XII . Purity . 54 XIII . Propriety 56 XIV . Precision 59 XV . Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences 61 ...
... Sublime in Writing Page 42 % gatsef I. STYLE . IX . Of Style and Idiom 51 X. Of different Kinds of Style . 51 XI . Perspicuity 53 XII . Purity . 54 XIII . Propriety 56 XIV . Precision 59 XV . Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences 61 ...
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... sublime object which it is possible to conceive or to contemplate ; and of all created sublimity , his works exhibit the most perfect and most astonishing examples . Such are the cloudless or starry sky - the troubled ocean - a majestic ...
... sublime object which it is possible to conceive or to contemplate ; and of all created sublimity , his works exhibit the most perfect and most astonishing examples . Such are the cloudless or starry sky - the troubled ocean - a majestic ...
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... sublime . Hence we see why it is that periods of difficulty , and oppression , and persecution , are favorable to the exhibition of the mor- al sublime . Such was the Reformation under Luther . For an admirable view of this and kindred ...
... sublime . Hence we see why it is that periods of difficulty , and oppression , and persecution , are favorable to the exhibition of the mor- al sublime . Such was the Reformation under Luther . For an admirable view of this and kindred ...
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... SUBLIME IN WRITING . For the best and most perfect examples of this , the Bible must be consulted . In its very first chapter , how sublime is the declaration , " God said , Let there be light , and there was light ! " Read , also ...
... SUBLIME IN WRITING . For the best and most perfect examples of this , the Bible must be consulted . In its very first chapter , how sublime is the declaration , " God said , Let there be light , and there was light ! " Read , also ...
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... sublime affection , as devoted piety , universal benevolence , the love of vir- tue and of our country : ( 3. ) when it affects the mind with an awful and imaginary , but not unpleasing hor- ror : ( 4. ) when it describes the sentiments ...
... sublime affection , as devoted piety , universal benevolence , the love of vir- tue and of our country : ( 3. ) when it affects the mind with an awful and imaginary , but not unpleasing hor- ror : ( 4. ) when it describes the sentiments ...
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Page 264 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 236 - The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool ; The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 169 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 226 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 80 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all: And, as a bird each fond endearment tries, To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 228 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Page 218 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Page 149 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 209 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 86 - The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.