Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, the Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity, Volume 2Printed from R. Dutton ... by Dewick and Clarke, 1805 |
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Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, the Art of Speaking in ..., Volume 2 Quintilian Volledige weergave - 1805 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 170 - And the chapt earth is furrow'd o'er with chinks, He leaves the fens, and leaps upon the ground, And, hissing, rolls his glaring eyes around. With thirst inflam'd, impatient of the heats, He rages in the fields, and wide destruction threats.
Pagina 171 - What bands of faith can impious lucre hold? Now, when my soul had shaken off her fears, 1 call my father and the Trojan peers ; Relate the prodigies of Heav'n, require What he commands, and their advice desire.
Pagina 313 - In this wheel there are six ranks, — insects, fish, birds, animals, poor men, and mandarins. It is not necessary to go in order through the six paths, but one may go from the highest to' the lowest, and from the lowest to the highest.
Pagina 51 - The new governor, unaccustomed to have the same intercourse with the Christians as his predecessor, had of course the barbarous Turkish ideas with regard to women. In consequence, and in compliance with the strict letter of the...
Pagina 148 - We thought, for Greece Their sails were hoisted, and our fears release. The Trojans, coop'd within their walls so long, Unbar their gates, and issue in a throng, Like swarming bees, and with delight survey The camp deserted, where the Grecians lay: The quarters of the sev'ral chiefs they show'd; Here Phoenix, here Achilles, made abode; Here join'd the battles; there the navy rode.
Pagina 149 - The dark recesses of his inmost mind: In all his trusted secrets you have part, And know the soft approaches to his heart. Haste then, and humbly seek my haughty foe; Tell him, I did not with the Grecians go...
Pagina 103 - The raging winds rush thro' the hollow wound, And dance aloft in air, and skim along the ground; Then, settling on the sea, the surges sweep, Raise liquid mountains, and disclose the deep.
Pagina 102 - ... to have directed upon thy own head the mischief thou hast long been meditating for ours. Could the noble Scipio, when sovereign pontiff, as a private Roman, kill Tiberius Gracchus for a slight encroachment upon the rights of his country ; and shall we, her consuls, with persevering patience endure Catiline, whose ambition is to desolate a devoted world with fire and sword...
Pagina 93 - We behold honees and public edifices wrapt in flames ; we hear the crash of roofs falling in, and one general uproar proceeding from a thousand different voices ; we see some flying they know not whither, others hanging over the last embraces of their wive« and friends : we see the mother tearing from the ruffian's grasp her helpless bahe, and the victors cutting each others' throats wEerever the plunder IB moat inviting.