Lectures Concerning Oratory: Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin,George Faulkner in Essex-street., 1760 - 457 páginas |
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... . Not to be con- demned . Ufeful . How governable by the Mind . How the Evils fuftained by others affect the Paffions . Why do Objects which disgust , yet yet please in Reprefentation . This applyed to Eloquence . CONTENTS .
... . Not to be con- demned . Ufeful . How governable by the Mind . How the Evils fuftained by others affect the Paffions . Why do Objects which disgust , yet yet please in Reprefentation . This applyed to Eloquence . CONTENTS .
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Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin, John Lawson. yet please in Reprefentation . This applyed to Eloquence . It's Effect upon the Paffions more Strong than that of any other Art . Why . Whether the Paffions ought to be applyed to . How ...
Delivered in Trinity College, Dublin, John Lawson. yet please in Reprefentation . This applyed to Eloquence . It's Effect upon the Paffions more Strong than that of any other Art . Why . Whether the Paffions ought to be applyed to . How ...
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... please by somewhat uncommon . And although , at the Time in which our Author wrote , Eloquence had arrived to it's height in Demofthenes , yet even then a falfe Tafte had spread itself wide- ly even Lect . 3 . 47 ORATORY .
... please by somewhat uncommon . And although , at the Time in which our Author wrote , Eloquence had arrived to it's height in Demofthenes , yet even then a falfe Tafte had spread itself wide- ly even Lect . 3 . 47 ORATORY .
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... please , that was not in his Manner ; nor Word be admitted , that wanted the Sanction of his Authority . Eraf mus ridicules this fuperftitious Excefs of Fond- ness with much Humour and good Senfe , in a Dialogue intitled , The ...
... please , that was not in his Manner ; nor Word be admitted , that wanted the Sanction of his Authority . Eraf mus ridicules this fuperftitious Excefs of Fond- ness with much Humour and good Senfe , in a Dialogue intitled , The ...
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... please in another . Thus it is in Productions of the Mind : Bind youfelf down to the Imitation of one , all will fee and laugh at the aukward Refemblance . You should therefore give yourself a larger Scope . As there are many good ...
... please in another . Thus it is in Productions of the Mind : Bind youfelf down to the Imitation of one , all will fee and laugh at the aukward Refemblance . You should therefore give yourself a larger Scope . As there are many good ...
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Página 219 - 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 239 - Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Página 241 - Merion's faithful Care. With proper Instruments they take the Road, Axes to cut, and Ropes to sling the Load. First march the heavy Mules, securely slow, O'er Hills, o'er Dales, o'er Crags, o'er Rocks, they go : Jumping high o'er the Shrubs of the rough Ground, Rattle the clatt'ring Cars, and the shockt Axles bound.
Página 249 - 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 261 - 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 265 - 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 240 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 266 - 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 81 - Compting-houfe employ'd the Sunday morn : Seldom at Church ('twas fuch a bufy life) But duly fent his family and wife. There (fo the Devil ordain'd) one Chriftmas-tide My good old Lady catch'da cold and dy'd. A Nymph of Quality admires our Knight, He marries, bows at Court, and grows polite : Leaves the dull Cits, and joins (to pleafe the Fair) The well-bred cuckolds in St. James's air: In...
Página 170 - 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.