Lectures Concerning Oratory: Delivered in Trinity College, DublinG. Faulkner, 1759 - 457 páginas |
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... that Poets are Enemies to true Oratory ; the Reasons I ground it upon are thefe : Anfwer me , Eubu- lus , Are not the Ends of Eloquence to inform and to convince ? T Eub . Eub . THEY are . Phil . For this Purpose Lect . 16. ORATORY . 273.
... that Poets are Enemies to true Oratory ; the Reasons I ground it upon are thefe : Anfwer me , Eubu- lus , Are not the Ends of Eloquence to inform and to convince ? T Eub . Eub . THEY are . Phil . For this Purpose Lect . 16. ORATORY . 273.
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Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin John Lawson. Eub . THEY are . Phil . For this Purpose , muft not the Un- derstanding be enlightened ? Eub . Ir must . Phil . BUT Poets addrefs themselves to the Imagination and Paffions ; therefore ...
Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin John Lawson. Eub . THEY are . Phil . For this Purpose , muft not the Un- derstanding be enlightened ? Eub . Ir must . Phil . BUT Poets addrefs themselves to the Imagination and Paffions ; therefore ...
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... Phil . THEY ought . Eub . Now , Philemon , what do Facts fay ? . Do they agree with your Reasoning ? Phil . THAT Queftion cannot be answered on a fudden . Eub . It may be fo : I will therefore affift you in the Answer : If I mistake ...
... Phil . THEY ought . Eub . Now , Philemon , what do Facts fay ? . Do they agree with your Reasoning ? Phil . THAT Queftion cannot be answered on a fudden . Eub . It may be fo : I will therefore affift you in the Answer : If I mistake ...
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... Phil . It may be in general dangerous , al- though it proved not hurtful to them . The Skilful only can extract Medicines from Poisons . Eub . WELL , but do these very Perfons think fo ? Confult them : Hear Cicero . " The Poet " is ...
... Phil . It may be in general dangerous , al- though it proved not hurtful to them . The Skilful only can extract Medicines from Poisons . Eub . WELL , but do these very Perfons think fo ? Confult them : Hear Cicero . " The Poet " is ...
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... Phil . WHY is it neceffary to him ? Granted : Eub . Is it not his End to perfuade ? In order to obtain which , must he not please ? Phil . It is fufficient if he address himself to Reason , the highest and ruling Faculty . Eub . THE ...
... Phil . WHY is it neceffary to him ? Granted : Eub . Is it not his End to perfuade ? In order to obtain which , must he not please ? Phil . It is fufficient if he address himself to Reason , the highest and ruling Faculty . Eub . THE ...
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Página 221 - Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know itself! It cannot Be call'd our mother, but our grave: where nothing, But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile; Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air, Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy: the dead man's knell Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives Expire before the flowers in their caps, Dying or ere they sicken.
Página 259 - Bacchanals' cries : Ah, see, he dies ! Yet ev'n in death Eurydice he sung ; Eurydice still trembled on his tongue ; Eurydice the woods, Eurydice the floods, Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung.
Página 267 - Warriors, the flower of heav'n, once yours, now lost, If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal spirits; or have ye chos'n this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of heav'n? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the conqueror?
Página 251 - Why comes not Death, Said hee, with one thrice acceptable stroke To end me? Shall Truth fail to keep her word, Justice Divine not hast'n to be just? But Death comes not at call, Justice Divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries. O Woods, O Fountains, Hillocks, Dales and Bowrs, With other echo late I taught your Shades To answer, and resound farr other Song.
Página 263 - Addifon hath commended a Paflage of Milton \ And had Earth been then, All Earth had to her Center fhook. Yet it feems that it may be doubted, whether the Poet, after reprefenting all Heaven refounding with the Tumult of the Angels engaged in Battle, hath not gone out of his Way, to add an Image that weakens the foregoing. THE...
Página 180 - Paffions, as we have feen, were given to roufe us from Indolence,. to make us active and enterprizing. Hence they are quick, lively, powerful, but foon fubfide. And this was gracioufly ordained, that, having anfwered their End, they might become weak, and eafily manageable by Reafon. Wherefore, "follow " Nature. Seek not to keep long in Motion a " Spring formed for quick, but fhort Action.
Página 268 - As the poets," says DR. LAWSON, " abound most in figures, it might be fit that all who mean to excel in eloquence should, at least in their youth, be conversant with their writings.
Página 242 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 172 - You cannot be much affected by what he [the speaker] says, if you do not look upon him to be a Man of Probity, who is in earnest, and doth himself believe what he endeavoreth to make out as credible to you.
Página 406 - Or gilded clouds in fair expanfion lie, And bring all Paradife before your eye. To reft, the Cufhion and foft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite.