Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the Pulpit |
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... Verses to infpire their Minds with the Love of Glory , Liberty , and their native Country ; and with a Con- tempt of Death , and Riches , and effemi- nate Pleasure . They gave their very Dances a grave and ferious Turn : for it is ...
... Verses to infpire their Minds with the Love of Glory , Liberty , and their native Country ; and with a Con- tempt of Death , and Riches , and effemi- nate Pleasure . They gave their very Dances a grave and ferious Turn : for it is ...
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... Verse that St. PAUL quotes from one of their own Poets . Corinth was re- markable for its exceffive Riot , and Diffo- lutenefs . The Romans , as yet unpolish't , began * Κρῆτες αεί ψεται , κανὶ Θηρία , γαςέρες αργαι . TIT . I. 12 ...
... Verse that St. PAUL quotes from one of their own Poets . Corinth was re- markable for its exceffive Riot , and Diffo- lutenefs . The Romans , as yet unpolish't , began * Κρῆτες αεί ψεται , κανὶ Θηρία , γαςέρες αργαι . TIT . I. 12 ...
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... Verses . If therefore we set Verfifying afide , Poetry in other respects is only a lively Fiction that paints Na- ture . And if one has not this Genius for Painting , he will never be able to imprint Things on the Hearer's Mind : but ...
... Verses . If therefore we set Verfifying afide , Poetry in other respects is only a lively Fiction that paints Na- ture . And if one has not this Genius for Painting , he will never be able to imprint Things on the Hearer's Mind : but ...
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... Verse . Sometimes we must use such a flow , and grave Mea- fure as is fit to defcribe Things of that Character and fometimes a fhort impe- tuous one , to exprefs what is quick and ardent . To ufe always the fame degree of Action , and ...
... Verse . Sometimes we must use such a flow , and grave Mea- fure as is fit to defcribe Things of that Character and fometimes a fhort impe- tuous one , to exprefs what is quick and ardent . To ufe always the fame degree of Action , and ...
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... Verses ; they must feel the Paffion they defcribe , elfe they can never paint it well . The greateft Art imaginable can never speak H 2- · * Τότε γ ἡ τέχνη τέλεΘ- , ἡνίκ ̓ ἂν φύσις εν δοκῇ ἡ δ ' αὖ φύσις ἐπιτυχής , ὅταν λανθάνεσα ...
... Verses ; they must feel the Paffion they defcribe , elfe they can never paint it well . The greateft Art imaginable can never speak H 2- · * Τότε γ ἡ τέχνη τέλεΘ- , ἡνίκ ̓ ἂν φύσις εν δοκῇ ἡ δ ' αὖ φύσις ἐπιτυχής , ὅταν λανθάνεσα ...
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Page 151 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 153 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Page 244 - The moral artist who can thus imitate the Creator, and is thus knowing in the inward form and structure of his fellow-creature, will hardly, I presume, be found unknowing in himself, or at a loss in those numbers which make the harmony of a mind.
Page 154 - The LORD is slow to anger. and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked : the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 152 - Have ye not known ? have ye not heard ? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in...
Page 151 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 151 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above ; and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me : those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Page 152 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 30 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much, upon this beautiful deceipt; and labour so long after it, in the years of our education: that we cannot but ever after think kinder of it, than it deserves.
Page 151 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect ; for all his ways are judgment : a God of truth, and u-itliout iniquity, just and right is he.