Dialogues Concerning Eloquence in General: And Particularly that Kind which is Fit for the Pulpit |
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... Poet's Fire : An ardent Judge , who , zealous in his Truft , With Warmth gives Sentence , yet is always juft : Whofe own Example ftrengthens all his Laws , And is himself that great SUBLIME he draws . own , Mr. POPE's Effay on ...
... Poet's Fire : An ardent Judge , who , zealous in his Truft , With Warmth gives Sentence , yet is always juft : Whofe own Example ftrengthens all his Laws , And is himself that great SUBLIME he draws . own , Mr. POPE's Effay on ...
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... Poets . Corinth was re- markable for its exceffive Riot , and Diffo- luteness . The Romans , as yet unpolish't , began * Κρῆτες αεὶ ψεται , κατὰ Θηρία , γαςέρες αργαι . TIT . I. 12 . began to fall into fuch Practices as quite relax't ...
... Poets . Corinth was re- markable for its exceffive Riot , and Diffo- luteness . The Romans , as yet unpolish't , began * Κρῆτες αεὶ ψεται , κατὰ Θηρία , γαςέρες αργαι . TIT . I. 12 . began to fall into fuch Practices as quite relax't ...
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... Poets and Muficians : do you approve of it ? B. I'm entirely of their Mind ; and wou'd allow of nothing that is useless . Since we may find Pleafure enough in fo- lid and valuable things , we ought not to feek for it elsewhere . In ...
... Poets and Muficians : do you approve of it ? B. I'm entirely of their Mind ; and wou'd allow of nothing that is useless . Since we may find Pleafure enough in fo- lid and valuable things , we ought not to feek for it elsewhere . In ...
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... Poets , to employ their Art only for promoting Virtue : and the Subjects of your new Republick are debarr'd from all fuch Spectacles as can only please , and not instruct them . But what wou'd you do with Conjurers ? B. They are ...
... Poets , to employ their Art only for promoting Virtue : and the Subjects of your new Republick are debarr'd from all fuch Spectacles as can only please , and not instruct them . But what wou'd you do with Conjurers ? B. They are ...
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... Poet . B. But whither are you leading me all this while ? A. I lead you no farther : you guide yourself now ; and are happily come to the Conclufion I firft propos'd . Have you not faid , that in your Republick , you would not suffer ...
... Poet . B. But whither are you leading me all this while ? A. I lead you no farther : you guide yourself now ; and are happily come to the Conclufion I firft propos'd . Have you not faid , that in your Republick , you would not suffer ...
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Page 153 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Page 30 - Studies of men, nothing may be sooner obtain'd, than this vicious abundance of Phrase, this trick of Metaphors, this volubility of Tongue, which makes so great a noise in the World. But I spend words in vain ; for the evil is now so inveterate, that it is hard to know whom to blame, or where to begin to reform. We all value one another so much, upon this beautiful deceipt; and labour so long after it, in the years of our education: that we cannot but ever after think kinder of it, than it deserves.
Page 151 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 152 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 151 - For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 106 - Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 73 - Something, whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit. For works may have more wit than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. Others for Language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent...
Page 151 - He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Page 160 - What advantage must they not reap if they were used to nourish themselves with this spiritual bread ? An audience who had heard the chief points of the Mosaic law explained, would be able to receive far more benefit from an explication of the truths of the gospel, than the greatest part of Christians are now. The preacher we spoke of before, has this failing among many great qualities, that his sermons are trains of fine reasoning about religion ; but they are not religion itself. We apply ourselves...
Page 77 - ... only whom he makes to speak. Such is the force of a natural imitation, and of painting in language. Hence it comes that the painters and the poets are so nearly related ; the one paints for the eyes ; and the other for the ears : but both of them ought to convey the liveliest pictures to people's imagination. I have taken an example from a poet to give you a livelier image of what I mean by painting in eloquence : for poets paint in a stronger manner than orators. Indeed the main thing in which...