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... speeches are nearly a literal tran- script from the antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates us ; it is that correspond- ent emotions are at once excited in our minds by what we see ...
... speeches are nearly a literal tran- script from the antient chronicles .. It is the picture of the little world within that interests and agitates us ; it is that correspond- ent emotions are at once excited in our minds by what we see ...
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... soon fulfill'd : " Fate , drop the curtain . I can lose no more . 1 NIGHT THOUGHTS . Of the sublime of passion we have a very fine instance in a speech of Othello- " Had it pleas'd Heaven " To try me with THE SUBLIME . 57.
... soon fulfill'd : " Fate , drop the curtain . I can lose no more . 1 NIGHT THOUGHTS . Of the sublime of passion we have a very fine instance in a speech of Othello- " Had it pleas'd Heaven " To try me with THE SUBLIME . 57.
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... speeches , and have destroyed both nature and pathos . The other mode of exciting pathetic feelings is by dilating on the subject , and bringing to view every tender and pathetic circumstance . For an historical example of this , I need ...
... speeches , and have destroyed both nature and pathos . The other mode of exciting pathetic feelings is by dilating on the subject , and bringing to view every tender and pathetic circumstance . For an historical example of this , I need ...
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... was when Mr. Burke , in one of his speeches in the house , called the extravagant French reformers " Architects of ruin ; " and Pope affords an in- stance of witty contrast in his ridicule of Ti mon's 48 THE LUDICROUS .
... was when Mr. Burke , in one of his speeches in the house , called the extravagant French reformers " Architects of ruin ; " and Pope affords an in- stance of witty contrast in his ridicule of Ti mon's 48 THE LUDICROUS .
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... speech to the electors of Bristol , when I was put out of that representation . " - Ів . " Great and learned men thought that my studies were not wholly thrown away , " & c . A great critic has indeed said that sometimes a common ...
... speech to the electors of Bristol , when I was put out of that representation . " - Ів . " Great and learned men thought that my studies were not wholly thrown away , " & c . A great critic has indeed said that sometimes a common ...
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