The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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Page viii
... poet and the orator so amply furnish , to disclose its secret movements , tracing its principal channels of perception and action , as near as possible , to their source : and , on the other hand , from the science of human nature , to ...
... poet and the orator so amply furnish , to disclose its secret movements , tracing its principal channels of perception and action , as near as possible , to their source : and , on the other hand , from the science of human nature , to ...
Page xvi
... poet . Eloquence and architecture , by which last term is always understood more than building merely for ac- commodation , are to be considered as of a mixed na- , ture , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . THE ...
... poet . Eloquence and architecture , by which last term is always understood more than building merely for ac- commodation , are to be considered as of a mixed na- , ture , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . THE ...
Page xvi
... poet's work , being at most but a sort of garnishing , and by far too unessential to give a desig- nation to the kind . This particularity in form , to a- dopt an expression of the naturalists , constitutes only a variety , and not a ...
... poet's work , being at most but a sort of garnishing , and by far too unessential to give a desig- nation to the kind . This particularity in form , to a- dopt an expression of the naturalists , constitutes only a variety , and not a ...
Page xvi
... poets before critics . The first impulse towards the attain- ment of every art is from nature . The earliest assist- ance and direction that can be obtained in the rhe- torical art , by which men operate on the minds of o- thers ...
... poets before critics . The first impulse towards the attain- ment of every art is from nature . The earliest assist- ance and direction that can be obtained in the rhe- torical art , by which men operate on the minds of o- thers ...
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... poet adds , " For works may have more wit than does ' em good . " Now let us substitute the definition in the place of the thing , and " it will stand thus : A work may have more of nature dress'd to ad- vantage , than will do it good ...
... poet adds , " For works may have more wit than does ' em good . " Now let us substitute the definition in the place of the thing , and " it will stand thus : A work may have more of nature dress'd to ad- vantage , than will do it good ...
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