The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 páginas |
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... remark might , if necesary , be exemplified throughout the whole circle of arts , both useful and elegant . Valuable knowledge therefore always leads to some prac- tical skill , and is perfected in it . On the other hand , the practical ...
... remark might , if necesary , be exemplified throughout the whole circle of arts , both useful and elegant . Valuable knowledge therefore always leads to some prac- tical skill , and is perfected in it . On the other hand , the practical ...
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... remark at present , that the direct end of the former , whether to delight the fancy as in epic , or to move the passions as in tragedy , is avowedly in part the aim , and sometimes the immediate and proposed aim , of the orator . The ...
... remark at present , that the direct end of the former , whether to delight the fancy as in epic , or to move the passions as in tragedy , is avowedly in part the aim , and sometimes the immediate and proposed aim , of the orator . The ...
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... remarks are made , which serve as so many rules for directing future practice ; and from comparing such general remarks together , others still more general are deduced . A few individual instances serve as a foundation to those ...
... remarks are made , which serve as so many rules for directing future practice ; and from comparing such general remarks together , others still more general are deduced . A few individual instances serve as a foundation to those ...
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... remarked on distinguishing them by their several objects . The imagination is charmed by a finished picture ... remark , that several of the terms above explained , are sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger ...
... remarked on distinguishing them by their several objects . The imagination is charmed by a finished picture ... remark , that several of the terms above explained , are sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger ...
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... remark- able : " Atque ego illos credo qui aderant , nec sensisse quid facerent , nec sponte judicioque plausisse ; sed velut mente captos , et quo essent in loco ig- naros , erupisse in hunc voluntatis affectum , " lib . viii . cap . 3 ...
... remark- able : " Atque ego illos credo qui aderant , nec sensisse quid facerent , nec sponte judicioque plausisse ; sed velut mente captos , et quo essent in loco ig- naros , erupisse in hunc voluntatis affectum , " lib . viii . cap . 3 ...
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admit adverb affirmed ambiguity anapest antonomasia appear application argument ascer beauty catachresis circumstances clause common commonly composition conjunctions connexion connexive consequence considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example expression former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language Latin latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator Paradise Lost particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity phrases pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition preterit principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian racter reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule rience sense sensible sentence sentiments serve signified solecism sometimes sophism sort sound speak speaker species Spect spondee style syllables syllogism Tatler tence term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
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Página 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Página 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Página 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Página 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Página 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Página 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Página 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Página 309 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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.
Página 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.