The Science of Rhetoric: An Introduction to the Laws of Effective DiscourseAmerican Book Company, 1877 - 304 Seiten |
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abstract according action Allegory analysis Antithesis Aristotle attention BOOK II.-LAWS Brevity cause CHAPTER character circumstances color communication composition conception connection Contrast definition depends discourse distinct dividing members economy of interpreting effect emotion excite experience Exposition facts fallacy feeling formal art harmony Hence ideal presence ideas illustration important infer intellect interpreting power kind language laws of effective Laws of Form Laws of Logical laws of mind laws of thought means medium of expression ment mental metaphor Method Metonymy mind addressed modes narration narrative nature necessary notion object painter painting Patroclus person present principle PRIORI ARGUMENTS produced proposition prose and poetry purpose qualities reader reason reference relations requires resemblance Rhetoric rhetorician rhyme says SECTION sense sentence sentiments signs simile Sir William Hamilton speaker style Synecdoche Tautology tence things tion true truth undisputed truth unity violate Whately whole words writer
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Seite 13 - And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Seite 262 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden, saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Seite 13 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Seite 263 - Far flash'd the red artillery ! But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of staine'd snow ; And bloodier yet...
Seite 178 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too — Theme this but little heard of among men — The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Seite 249 - Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 280 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he is a god: either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or, peradventure, he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Seite 263 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun,' Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Seite 157 - 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 213 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!