A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style Inferred from Examples of Writing: To which is Added A Historical Dissertation on English StyleDayton and Newman, 1842 - 311 Seiten |
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... as the clear conveyance of the author's ' meaning depends on skill in the use of language . Sentences are either simple or complex . A simple sen- tence consists of a single member . A complex sentence 130 ON SENTENCES .
... as the clear conveyance of the author's ' meaning depends on skill in the use of language . Sentences are either simple or complex . A simple sen- tence consists of a single member . A complex sentence 130 ON SENTENCES .
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To which is Added A Historical Dissertation on English Style Samuel Phillips Newman. tence consists of a single member . A complex sentence consists of several members , and these members are some- times subdivided into clauses . " The ...
To which is Added A Historical Dissertation on English Style Samuel Phillips Newman. tence consists of a single member . A complex sentence consists of several members , and these members are some- times subdivided into clauses . " The ...
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... tence . The principles of construction in our language are equal- ly favorable to the period and the loose sentence . Hence in the productions of those esteemed the best writers in the language , sentences of both forms are found ...
... tence . The principles of construction in our language are equal- ly favorable to the period and the loose sentence . Hence in the productions of those esteemed the best writers in the language , sentences of both forms are found ...
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... tence . Hence the danger of obscurity in their use . Examples of the preposition . " I am persuaded that neither death nor life - shall be able to sep- arate us from the love of God . " In this sentence , the love of God , may signify ...
... tence . Hence the danger of obscurity in their use . Examples of the preposition . " I am persuaded that neither death nor life - shall be able to sep- arate us from the love of God . " In this sentence , the love of God , may signify ...
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... tence . In languages where adjectives and substantives have correspondent changes of termination , the reader may in this way most generally determine to which noun the ad Jective belongs ; but in languages , as in the 136 ON SENTENCES .
... tence . In languages where adjectives and substantives have correspondent changes of termination , the reader may in this way most generally determine to which noun the ad Jective belongs ; but in languages , as in the 136 ON SENTENCES .
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
addressed admiration adverbs allusions Antithe applied argument atheism attained attempts attention called cause caution clauses common comparison composition connected connexion convey direct distinct effect elegant emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language English style epithets example excite emotions exercise exhibit familiar faults favorable feelings fitted to excite following passage frequent give given habits happy heaven Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implies infer inkhorn term instances intellectual introduced kind knowledge labor language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature noun Numidia objects and scenes ornaments of style period personification perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition principles productions pronoun proposition readers reason refer relative pronoun remarks resemblance rhetoric rience Roger Ascham rules sense sentence shew skill speak striking student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thought tion traits vivacity words writer Zoroaster
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 44 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Seite 74 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Seite 72 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place ; The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door ; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Seite 288 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Seite 251 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Seite 291 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds ; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest than it could recover by the...
Seite 101 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory!
Seite 112 - Him! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage!— how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle the utterance of thy name! Our poor work may perish; but thine shall endure! This monument may moulder away; the solid ground it rests upon may sink down to a level with the sea; but thy memory shall...
Seite 251 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain.
Seite 288 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and...