The arts of logick and rhetorick [adapted by J. Oldmixon from La manière de bien penser] by father Bouhours. To which are added parallel quotations out of English authors1728 |
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Strana iv
... said in Flattery of one of the late Queen's latest Mini- fters , A Genius not more diftinguish'd in the great Scenes of Business , than in all the use- ful and entertaining Parts of Learning : But it was those other valuable and amiable ...
... said in Flattery of one of the late Queen's latest Mini- fters , A Genius not more diftinguish'd in the great Scenes of Business , than in all the use- ful and entertaining Parts of Learning : But it was those other valuable and amiable ...
Strana xiv
... Said the Lord Rofcommon , who understood good Breeding , and good Learning , as well as any Man ever did . WITHOUT thefe glorious Advantages , which are always accompany'd with Difcretion and De- cency , Authors , otherwife of agreeable ...
... Said the Lord Rofcommon , who understood good Breeding , and good Learning , as well as any Man ever did . WITHOUT thefe glorious Advantages , which are always accompany'd with Difcretion and De- cency , Authors , otherwife of agreeable ...
Strana 59
... said so himself ; but Ctefias made him fay fo for the Eloquence of the Expreffion . That Hiftorian was no great Lover of Simplicity , and Deme- trius himself calls him a Poet , not only on Account of the Fables of which his Hiftory is ...
... said so himself ; but Ctefias made him fay fo for the Eloquence of the Expreffion . That Hiftorian was no great Lover of Simplicity , and Deme- trius himself calls him a Poet , not only on Account of the Fables of which his Hiftory is ...
Strana 139
... by faying as ' tis said in the Gofpel , The Lillies don't fpin ; or as in the Fable , a Diftaff don't become the Gallick Hercules . Sometimes a Thought that's 7 that's entirely fimple and pure , has the fame LOGICK and RHETORICK . 139.
... by faying as ' tis said in the Gofpel , The Lillies don't fpin ; or as in the Fable , a Diftaff don't become the Gallick Hercules . Sometimes a Thought that's 7 that's entirely fimple and pure , has the fame LOGICK and RHETORICK . 139.
Strana 169
... said , Spoke by the Spirit of God . The Void of Heaven a gloomy Horrour fills , And cloudy Veils involve her fhining Hills . Of Greatness paft no Footsteps she retains , Sunk in a Series of inglorious Reigns . * She feels the Change ...
... said , Spoke by the Spirit of God . The Void of Heaven a gloomy Horrour fills , And cloudy Veils involve her fhining Hills . Of Greatness paft no Footsteps she retains , Sunk in a Series of inglorious Reigns . * She feels the Change ...
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againſt agreeable alfo Antients Author Beauty becauſe better Boileau Cæfar call'd Cicero cou'd Cowley Critick Death Defire Delicacy delicate Difcourfe Dryden Duke dy'd Echard English Epigram Expreffion faid falfe fame Father Bouhours fays feems feen felf felves fhall fhew fhould fince firft fome fomething fometimes foon fpeaking French ftill fuch fure Glory Gods Gratian Heart Heaven Heroes Hiftory himſelf Honour Hyperbole Inftance Jefuit juft King laft leaft lefs Lewis loft Lord Love Lucan Mafter moft moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature noble Nonfenfe Numbers Obfcurity obferves Occafion Orator Ovid Paffage Paffion Panegyrick Pere Bouhours Perfon pleaſe Poem Poet Poetry Pompey Praife prefent Prince Profe Quintilian Reader Reafon Senfe Soul ſpeaks Sublime Tacitus Taffo tells thee thefe themſelves there's theſe Thing thofe thoſe thou Thought Tranflation Truth underſtand Verfes Verſes Virgil Voiture whofe Word World wou'd write
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Strana 344 - Thus fell the greatest subject in power, and little inferior to any in fortune, that was at that time in any of the three kingdoms; who could well remember the time, when he led those people, who then pursued him to his grave. He was a man of great parts, and extraordinary endowments of nature ; not unadorned with some addition of art and learning, though that again was more improved and illustrated by the other...
Strana 369 - Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Strana 91 - ... of nature, all the works of art, all the labours of men, are reduced to nothing; all that we admired and adored before, as great...
Strana 61 - In short, our souls are at present delightfully lost and bewildered in a pleasing delusion, and we walk about like the enchanted hero of a romance, who sees beautiful castles, woods and meadows; and at the same time hears the warbling of birds, and the purling of streams; but upon the finishing of some secret spell, the fantastic scene breaks up, and the disconsolate knight finds himself on a barren heath, or in a solitary desert.
Strana 93 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing: Now on the polar winds, then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air...
Strana 296 - When it does not let him sleep, it is a flame that sends up no smoke ; when it is opposed by counsel and advice, it is a fire that rages the more by the wind's blowing upon it.
Strana 281 - Such are thy Pictures, Kneller. Such thy Skill, That Nature seems obedient to thy Will: Comes out, and meets thy Pencil in the draught: Lives there, and wants but words to speak her thought.
Strana 77 - Hither, as to their fountain , other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Strana 231 - ... in a way so very becoming, that the air of the pretty gentleman is preserved, under the lowliness of the preacher. I...
Strana 91 - ... of this earth ; what is become of her now? She laid her foundations deep, and her palaces were strong and sumptuous: she glorified herself, and lived deliciously; and said in her heart, I sit a queen, and shall see no sorrow.