A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence : Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ...A.H. Maltby, 1839 - 306 Seiten |
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... possesses a singular Advantage in marking Personification 166 A capital Error in Personification , is to deck the Figure with fan- tastic and trifling Circumstances 166 Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of ...
... possesses a singular Advantage in marking Personification 166 A capital Error in Personification , is to deck the Figure with fan- tastic and trifling Circumstances 166 Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of ...
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... possessed in different Degrees by different Men Taste , an improvable Faculty , and refined by Education Exercise is the Source of Improvement in all our Faculties , in our bodily , in our mental Powers , and even in our external Senses ...
... possessed in different Degrees by different Men Taste , an improvable Faculty , and refined by Education Exercise is the Source of Improvement in all our Faculties , in our bodily , in our mental Powers , and even in our external Senses ...
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... possess , and to obtain it , he were to express himself in the order prompted by the immediate feelings of his mind ; the first thing that would excite his attention , and which , consequently , he would first name , is the acorn ...
... possess , and to obtain it , he were to express himself in the order prompted by the immediate feelings of his mind ; the first thing that would excite his attention , and which , consequently , he would first name , is the acorn ...
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... faculty of reason , bv science and philosophy ; it is then that the poet has the best chance of possessing the greatest compound quality of the powers of agina . tion and judgment he can ever attain . Such , 30 Of the Progress of Language.
... faculty of reason , bv science and philosophy ; it is then that the poet has the best chance of possessing the greatest compound quality of the powers of agina . tion and judgment he can ever attain . Such , 30 Of the Progress of Language.
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... possess . It is plainly an im- provement upon spoken language , and therefore must have been posterior to it in order of time . Illus . At first , men thought of nothing more than communicating their thoughts to one another , when ...
... possess . It is plainly an im- provement upon spoken language , and therefore must have been posterior to it in order of time . Illus . At first , men thought of nothing more than communicating their thoughts to one another , when ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action Addison adjectives admit adverbs Æneid agent agreeable allegory ambiguity Analysis appear arrangement attention beauty Cæsar Catiline character Cicero circumstances common comparison composition convey Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denotes dignity discourse effect employed equivocal Example expression figure former frequent genius give grace hath hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad Illus imagination impression instance ject Julius Cæsar kind language Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscurity observe orator ornament Ossian passion period person personification perspicuity Pharsalia phrases pleasure poem poet poetry polished languages possess precision preposition principles pronouns proper propriety qualities Quinctilian reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiment Shakspeare signify similes sometimes sound speak species speech style sublime substantive syllables taste tence things thou thought tion trochees verb verse Virgil virtue words writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 132 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Seite 134 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Seite 161 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Seite 66 - 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 291 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Seite 156 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Seite 291 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 168 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Seite 155 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Seite 156 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.