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The age we live in is peculiarly a reading age; the desire of oratorical eminence is confined to no class, the materials of study and information accessible to every order of society. In this state of things it must surely be desirable that every possible effort should be made to form the public taste, to inculcate the prin ciples of correct judgment, and point out those models of fine writing, which may be studied and imitated with advantage. The Sublime of Longinus, fairly rendered, with the examples and illustrations judiciously selected by Dr. Smith from the three richest stores of all that is sublime and beautiful in our own language - the Holy Scriptures, Shakspere and Milton, is, perhaps.
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Excerpt from Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime: Translated From the Greek With Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author
The age we live in is peculiarly a reading age; the desire of oratorical eminence is confined to no class, the materials of study and information accessible to every order of society. In this state of things it must surely be desirable that every possible effort should be made to form the public taste, to inculcate the prin ciples of correct judgment, and point out those models of fine writing, which may be studied and imitated with advantage. The Sublime of Longinus, fairly rendered, with the examples and illustrations judiciously selected by Dr. Smith from the three richest stores of all that is sublime and beautiful in our own language - the Holy Scriptures, Shakspere and Milton, is, perhaps.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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It will, without doubt, be expected, that the Reader should be made privy to the reasons upon which this Work was under taken, and is now made public. The intrinsic beauty of the piece itself first allured me to the attempt ; and a regard for the public, especially for those who might be unable to read the original, was the main inducement to its publication.
The Treatise on the Sublime had slept for several ages, covered up in the dust of libraries, till the middle of the sixteenth century. The first Latin version by Gabriel de Petra was printed at Geneva in 1612. But the first good translation of it into any modern language, was the French one of the famous Boileau, which, though not always faithful to the text, yet has an elegance and a spirit which few will ever be able to equal, much less to surpass.
The present translation was finished before I knew of any prior attempt to make Longinus speak English. The first translation of him I met with, was published by Mr. Welsted, in 1724. But I was very much surprised, upon a perusal, to find it only Boileau's translation misrepresented and mangled. For every beauty is impaired, if not totally effaced, and every error (even down to those of the printer) most injudiciously preserved.
I have since accidentally met with two other English versions of this Treatise; one by J.Hall, Esq. London, 1652 ; the other without a name, but printed at Oxford in 1698, and said in the title-page to have been compared with the French of Boileau. I saw nothing in either of these which did not yield the greatest encouragement to a new attempt.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This ancient text explores the concept of the sublime, analyzing what gives written or spoken language its power, and how to distinguish true sublimity from lesser attempts. The author, an established expert on rhetoric, examines the different sources of the sublime, including boldness of thought, passion, and skillful use of figures of speech. He also discusses the importance of a noble style and grandeur of expression. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the art of rhetoric, and its insights on the nature of the sublime continue to be relevant today. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781330695258_0
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