The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. To which are Prefixed Two EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - Počet stran: 346 |
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Strana xxx
... turns astonishes , soothes , and delights . Elegy , through the soft and plaintive notes of Bion or Tibullus , melts the soul in pleasing sym- pathy while Pastoral Song , in the artless notes of Theo- critus , or in the sweet melody of ...
... turns astonishes , soothes , and delights . Elegy , through the soft and plaintive notes of Bion or Tibullus , melts the soul in pleasing sym- pathy while Pastoral Song , in the artless notes of Theo- critus , or in the sweet melody of ...
Strana xxxvii
... black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That murmurs at his feet ? From the similarity between the emotions excited by great- ness ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . XXXVÏ.
... black with shade , And continents of sand , will turn his gaze , To mark the windings of a scanty rill , That murmurs at his feet ? From the similarity between the emotions excited by great- ness ON READING WORKS OF TASTE . XXXVÏ.
Strana xxxviii
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business of criticism , to remark in what manner any of these properties of thought , or others of the incidental kind ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . In reading works of taste , it is the business of criticism , to remark in what manner any of these properties of thought , or others of the incidental kind ...
Strana xlii
... turn of thinking . The same remark may be applied to several other pro- perties of good writing , such as Simplicity , Vivacity , Strength , Dignity . These and other terms , made use of to express the excellencies of Style , are , in ...
... turn of thinking . The same remark may be applied to several other pro- perties of good writing , such as Simplicity , Vivacity , Strength , Dignity . These and other terms , made use of to express the excellencies of Style , are , in ...
Strana 11
... n And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , CHAP . VIII . 11 1 SELECT SENTENCES .
... n And as Imagination bodies forth The form of things unknown , the Poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name . Heaven doth with us as we with torches do , CHAP . VIII . 11 1 SELECT SENTENCES .
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