Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory; Or, Education of An Orator
Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory; Or, Education of An Orator
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Why, theu, should thay tlutik that strength is relaxed by attention to beauty, when nothing attains its fuD stren/^ without art, and beauty al\\7iys Bcrompamea art? 8. Do we not see l\i8X iiSofi ^^^^.^ m QimmLTAir. IS. a. in i whieli is hurled with the greatest effect, is nho hurled I with the mosi: grace ? The surer ia the aim of those who Liirect arrows from the bow, the finer are their attitudes* In pasaagea of arras, and in all the exerdses of the palsestra, what blc|^' is succesafullj avoi...ded or aimed by him whose movements jhave not something artificial, and whose step is not assured by sl-sill '? 9- Thoughts, in like manner, appear to rae to be aimed aust impelled by studied composition, as javelins and arrows are by the thong * or the bowsDlng. The most learned, indeed, are of opinion that it is of the highest efficacy not only for giving pleasure, but for producing con^^atio^ ; 10. because, in the first place, nothing can fairly pass into the mind whi( ' gives offence as it enters the ear, which is, as it were, thi vestibule of the mind ; and because, in the second place, are adapted by nature to feel pleasure in harmony ; otberwiiSi it would be impossible for the notes of mnsical inslrunients, which express nothing but meaningless gounds, to excite various emotions in the hearer.
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