An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their Excellencies; and Directions how to Study Them to Advantage. With an Essay on the Nature and Use of Those Emphatical and Beautiful Figures which Give Strength and Ornament to WritingC. Rivington, 1737 - 271 Seiten |
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... might poffibly have said more in Praife of my Authors , but believe I have faid enough to shew that it is a confiderable Difadvantage to any Scholar to neglect the Study of them . As As to the Second Part , my Defign was to The PREFACE .
... might poffibly have said more in Praife of my Authors , but believe I have faid enough to shew that it is a confiderable Difadvantage to any Scholar to neglect the Study of them . As As to the Second Part , my Defign was to The PREFACE .
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... faid upon his Subject , yet you'll fcarce ever think he fays too much . But this Part of his Character , tho ' juft , may look like a Digreffion . I pafs on . Thofe few Obfcurities , which are in the beft Authors , do not proceed from ...
... faid upon his Subject , yet you'll fcarce ever think he fays too much . But this Part of his Character , tho ' juft , may look like a Digreffion . I pafs on . Thofe few Obfcurities , which are in the beft Authors , do not proceed from ...
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... faid to thunder and lighten in his Harangues . Euripides , famous for the Purity of the Attic Style , and his Power in moving the Paffions , efpecially the fofter ones of Grief and Pity , was invited to , and generously entertain'd in ...
... faid to thunder and lighten in his Harangues . Euripides , famous for the Purity of the Attic Style , and his Power in moving the Paffions , efpecially the fofter ones of Grief and Pity , was invited to , and generously entertain'd in ...
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... faid to reign in Crete . Mofes was King in Palestine , the Inhabitants of which are in Hebrew called Cerethim , and fometimes by the Greek Interpreters Κρήτες . * Thefe Expreffions in Homer and Horace , that Minos difcours'd with ...
... faid to reign in Crete . Mofes was King in Palestine , the Inhabitants of which are in Hebrew called Cerethim , and fometimes by the Greek Interpreters Κρήτες . * Thefe Expreffions in Homer and Horace , that Minos difcours'd with ...
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... faid to help God : Curfe ye Meroz , ( faid the Angel of the Lord ) curfe ye bitterly the Inhabitants there- of because they came not to the Help of the Lord , to the Help of the Lord * Job xxxvi . 6 . Od . 13. 3 . against against the ...
... faid to help God : Curfe ye Meroz , ( faid the Angel of the Lord ) curfe ye bitterly the Inhabitants there- of because they came not to the Help of the Lord , to the Help of the Lord * Job xxxvi . 6 . Od . 13. 3 . against against the ...
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addrefs admir'd admirable Advantage againſt agreeable Anacreon Authors beautiful becauſe beſt Callimachus Chriftian Claffics Compariſon confiderable Converfation Cuſtom Cycnus defcribes Defcription Defign Dido Difcourfe Diſcourſe divine Dryd Eloquence Euripides excellent Expreffion exprefs facred faid fame fays feem feveral fhall fhew Figure fion firft firſt fome fomething fpeaks freſh ftrong fublime fuch Georgics gives Grace Greek Herodotus Hiftorian Hiftory himſelf Honour illuftrate Inftances inftruct juft laft Language Learning Livy Loft Mafter Majefty ment Metaphor Metonymy moft moſt muft muſt Nature nefs noble Numbers Obfervation Occafion Orator Paffage Paffion Perfon Phrynicus Pindar plain Plato pleaſant pleaſe Pleaſure Poems Poet Praiſe prefent proper purſue Quintilian racter raiſe Reader Reafon reprefents Senfe Senſe Sentence ſhall ſhould ſpeak Speech Style Subject Tacitus thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe Thing thofe thoſe thou Thought thro tion Trope Tully Underſtanding us'd Uſe Verfe Virg Virgil Words World Writers Xenophon
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Seite 232 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast ; And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
Seite 192 - On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due; So might the wrath!
Seite 244 - Creatures of other mould, earth-born perhaps, Not spirits, yet to heav'nly spirits bright Little inferior ; whom my thoughts pursue With wonder, and could love, so lively shines In them divine resemblance, and such grace The hand that form'd them on...
Seite 175 - Egyptian wife. Moving they fight : with oars and forky prows The froth is gather'd, and the water glows. It seems, as if the Cyclades again Were rooted up, and justled in the main ; Or floating mountains floating mountains meet ; Such is the fierce encounter of the fleet. Fire-balls are thrown, and pointed javelins fly, The fields of Neptune take a purple dye.
Seite 224 - After we have practised good actions a while, they become easy ; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and, by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of nature ; and, so far as any thing is natural, so far it is necessary, and we can hardly do otherwise; nay, we do it many times when we do not think of it.
Seite 97 - He made darkness his secret place: his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Seite 269 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 236 - Looks through the horizontal mifty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipfe difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. '.Darken'd fo, yet fhone Above them all th...
Seite 260 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent ! and thou the day...
Seite 14 - You have their exact images of all the actions of war, and employments of peace ; and are entertained with the delightful view of the universe.