The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & bros., 1854 - 435 Seiten |
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... entirely conformed to the plan there delineated . That first outline he showed soon after to several of his ac- quaintance , some of whom are still living . In the year 1757 it was read to a private literary society , of which the ...
... entirely conformed to the plan there delineated . That first outline he showed soon after to several of his ac- quaintance , some of whom are still living . In the year 1757 it was read to a private literary society , of which the ...
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... entirely , and a reader unacquainted with all other theories and hypotheses , can hardly be persua- ded that there was ever any difficulty in the question . But there is reason to think that the world will soon be favoured with an ...
... entirely , and a reader unacquainted with all other theories and hypotheses , can hardly be persua- ded that there was ever any difficulty in the question . But there is reason to think that the world will soon be favoured with an ...
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... entirely sensible that an impropri- ety or other negligence in style will escape the notice of the writer , which hardly escapes that of anybody else . Next to the purpose of illustrating the principles and canons which he here submits ...
... entirely sensible that an impropri- ety or other negligence in style will escape the notice of the writer , which hardly escapes that of anybody else . Next to the purpose of illustrating the principles and canons which he here submits ...
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... entirely founded on experiment and observation , and are not derived , like pure mathematics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the species , from the species to the genus ...
... entirely founded on experiment and observation , and are not derived , like pure mathematics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the species , from the species to the genus ...
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... entirely under the denomination of the useful ; whereas painting and sculpture , though requiring a good deal of manual labour , and in that respect more nearly related to the mechanical , belong to the class denominated elegant . The ...
... entirely under the denomination of the useful ; whereas painting and sculpture , though requiring a good deal of manual labour , and in that respect more nearly related to the mechanical , belong to the class denominated elegant . The ...
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adjective admit adverb affirmed ambiguity antonomasia appear application argument ascer beauty catachresis cause circumstances clause common conjunctions connexion connexive consequence considered contrary critics denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal eral evidence example expression farther former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language Latin latter Lysias manner meaning ment metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity phrases pleonasm poet preceding preposition preterit principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian reason regard relation remark render resemblance respect ridicule sense sensible sentence sentiments serve signified sion solecism sometimes sophism sort sound speak speaker species Spect spondee style syllables syllogism synecdoche Tatler tence term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
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Seite 411 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 367 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Seite 396 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 197 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 133 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Seite 344 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 309 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Seite 353 - That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Seite 247 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that time made up the court of king Charles the Second ; either such...
Seite 54 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.