Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Tom 1Richardson, 1823 |
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... Virgil to Homer . Suppose that I , on the other hand , admire Homer more than Virgil . I have as yet no reason to say that our tastes are contradictory . The other person is more struck with the elegance and tenderness which are the ...
... Virgil to Homer . Suppose that I , on the other hand , admire Homer more than Virgil . I have as yet no reason to say that our tastes are contradictory . The other person is more struck with the elegance and tenderness which are the ...
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Hugh Blair. struck with the elegance and tenderness which are the characteristics of Virgil : I , with the simplicity and fire of Homer . As long as neither of us deny that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties , our difference falls ...
Hugh Blair. struck with the elegance and tenderness which are the characteristics of Virgil : I , with the simplicity and fire of Homer . As long as neither of us deny that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties , our difference falls ...
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... Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have acquired as standards , in some degree , of poetical composition ; since from them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , concerning those beauties which give them the ...
... Virgil . Hence the authority which such works have acquired as standards , in some degree , of poetical composition ; since from them we are enabled to collect what the sense of mankind is , concerning those beauties which give them the ...
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... Virgil has introduced all those ideas of silence , vacuity , and darkness , when he is going to introduce his hero to the in- fernal regions , and to disclose the secrets of the great deep . Dii quibus imperium est animarum , umbræque ...
... Virgil has introduced all those ideas of silence , vacuity , and darkness , when he is going to introduce his hero to the in- fernal regions , and to disclose the secrets of the great deep . Dii quibus imperium est animarum , umbræque ...
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... painted with such circumstances as fill the mind with great and awful ideas . This is very happily done by Virgil , in the following passage : - Ipse Pater , mediâ nimborum in nocte , coruscâ Fulmina 80 Lect . 4 . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
... painted with such circumstances as fill the mind with great and awful ideas . This is very happily done by Virgil , in the following passage : - Ipse Pater , mediâ nimborum in nocte , coruscâ Fulmina 80 Lect . 4 . SUBLIMITY IN WRITING .
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Strona 396 - 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...
Strona 72 - He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Strona 73 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Strona 396 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house : but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the 2S2 THE MAN-GOD.
Strona 72 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Strona 319 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Strona 385 - I led her blushing like the morn : all Heaven, And happy constellations, on that hour Shed their selectest influence ; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill ; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal...
Strona 72 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Strona 60 - 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: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Strona 383 - When Natural Religion has thus viewed both, ask her, which is the Prophet of God? — But her answer we have already had, when she saw part of this scene, through the eyes of the Centurion, who attended at the cross. By him she spoke, and said, i Truly this man was the Son of God.