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... unity of action in dramatic and epic composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the ...
... unity of action in dramatic and epic composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the ...
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... Unity . 3. Strength . 4. Harmony . Ambiguity is opposed to clearness , and arises from two causes ; either from a wrong choice of words , or a wrong collocation of them . Of the choice of words , as far as regards perspicu- ity , we ...
... Unity . 3. Strength . 4. Harmony . Ambiguity is opposed to clearness , and arises from two causes ; either from a wrong choice of words , or a wrong collocation of them . Of the choice of words , as far as regards perspicu- ity , we ...
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... unity . This is a capital property . The very nature of a sentence implies one proposition to be expressed . It may consist of parts ; but these parts must be so closely bound together , as to make an impression of one object only upon ...
... unity . This is a capital property . The very nature of a sentence implies one proposition to be expressed . It may consist of parts ; but these parts must be so closely bound together , as to make an impression of one object only upon ...
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... unity by constructing it thus ; " having come to anchor , I was put on shore , where I was saluted by all my friends , who received me with the greatest kindness . " The second rule is , never crowd into one sen- tence ideas , which ...
... unity by constructing it thus ; " having come to anchor , I was put on shore , where I was saluted by all my friends , who received me with the greatest kindness . " The second rule is , never crowd into one sen- tence ideas , which ...
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... unity of a sentence is , bring it to a full and perfect close . It needs not to be observed , that an unfinished sentence is no sentence with respect to grammar . But sentences often occur , which are more than fin- ished . When we have ...
... unity of a sentence is , bring it to a full and perfect close . It needs not to be observed , that an unfinished sentence is no sentence with respect to grammar . But sentences often occur , which are more than fin- ished . When we have ...
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Page 232 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 106 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 228 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Page 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?