The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 páginas |
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Página viii
... tropes . Part II . The different sorts of tropes conducive to vivacity .. 1. The less for the more general ..... 2. The most interesting circumstances distinguished . 3. Things sensible for things intelligible ... 4. Things animate for ...
... tropes . Part II . The different sorts of tropes conducive to vivacity .. 1. The less for the more general ..... 2. The most interesting circumstances distinguished . 3. Things sensible for things intelligible ... 4. Things animate for ...
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... tropes and figures , either for beautifying , or for invigorating the diction , are em- ployed by both . In regard to versification , it is more to be considered as an appendage , than as a constituent of poetry . In this lies what inay ...
... tropes and figures , either for beautifying , or for invigorating the diction , are em- ployed by both . In regard to versification , it is more to be considered as an appendage , than as a constituent of poetry . In this lies what inay ...
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... tropes and figures of speech , with their divisions and subdivisions , are explained . By the third , the rules of composition are discovered , or the method of combining and disposing the several materials , so as that they may be ...
... tropes and figures of speech , with their divisions and subdivisions , are explained . By the third , the rules of composition are discovered , or the method of combining and disposing the several materials , so as that they may be ...
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... tropes and figures are extracted , which , when properly employed , have such a marvellous efficacy in rousing the passions , and by some secret , sudden , and inexplicable association , awakening all the tenderest emotions of the heart ...
... tropes and figures are extracted , which , when properly employed , have such a marvellous efficacy in rousing the passions , and by some secret , sudden , and inexplicable association , awakening all the tenderest emotions of the heart ...
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... trope familiar to this author , you have here a comparison of— a woman's chastity to a piece of porcelain , her honour to a gaudy robe , her prayers to a fantastical disguise , - her heart to a trinket and all these together to her ...
... trope familiar to this author , you have here a comparison of— a woman's chastity to a piece of porcelain , her honour to a gaudy robe , her prayers to a fantastical disguise , - her heart to a trinket and all these together to her ...
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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.