Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples : for the Use of Common Schools and Academies |
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... Sublime in Writing I. STYLE . IX . Of Style and Idiom X. Of different Kinds of Style . XI . Perspicuity XII . Purity . XIII . Propriety XIV . Precision XV . Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences XVI . Of Clearness XVII . Of Unity ...
... Sublime in Writing I. STYLE . IX . Of Style and Idiom X. Of different Kinds of Style . XI . Perspicuity XII . Purity . XIII . Propriety XIV . Precision XV . Perspicuity in the Structure of Sentences XVI . Of Clearness XVII . Of Unity ...
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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- & 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- & 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 253 - And there was mounting in hot haste; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
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 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 226 - His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
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Page 252 - No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet— But hark!— that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than> before! Arm! Arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar!
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 268 - And, oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle.