Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six Parts, Viz., Grammar, Composition, Synonomy, Language, Orations, Poems, and Other Interesting SubjectsJohn Sabine Tegg, 1810 - 295 Seiten |
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... figure in the English Language , the Sun , the Sky , Death , Time , & c . are masculine . On the other hand , the Moon , the Church , Ships , and frequently countries and virtues , as , France , Spain , Faith , Hope , & c . are of the ...
... figure in the English Language , the Sun , the Sky , Death , Time , & c . are masculine . On the other hand , the Moon , the Church , Ships , and frequently countries and virtues , as , France , Spain , Faith , Hope , & c . are of the ...
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... figures ; and ought in propriety to have the principal place allotted them . EXAMPLE . " In their prosperity , my friends shall never hear ; in their adversity always . " Here the Adverb always , being an emphatical word , is so placed ...
... figures ; and ought in propriety to have the principal place allotted them . EXAMPLE . " In their prosperity , my friends shall never hear ; in their adversity always . " Here the Adverb always , being an emphatical word , is so placed ...
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... FIGURES OF SPEECH . FIGURES in general may be described to be that language which is prompted either by the imagina ... figure than a simile , and differs from it only in this , that the for- mer is compared to the thing we design to ...
... FIGURES OF SPEECH . FIGURES in general may be described to be that language which is prompted either by the imagina ... figure than a simile , and differs from it only in this , that the for- mer is compared to the thing we design to ...
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... figure with a tempest , conclude it with a conflagration ; which forms a shameful inconsistency . .. Let nature and passion always speak their own language , and they will suggest figures in abundance . But when we seek to counterfeit a ...
... figure with a tempest , conclude it with a conflagration ; which forms a shameful inconsistency . .. Let nature and passion always speak their own language , and they will suggest figures in abundance . But when we seek to counterfeit a ...
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... be introduced with propriety until the mind of the reader is duly prepared . A figure of this kind , placed at the beginning of a work , is improper . A hyperbole , ! A hyperbole , ought to be comprehended in as few 110 COMPOSITION .
... be introduced with propriety until the mind of the reader is duly prepared . A figure of this kind , placed at the beginning of a work , is improper . A hyperbole , ! A hyperbole , ought to be comprehended in as few 110 COMPOSITION .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adjective Adverb appear arms Auxiliary beauty Better boast breast Cæsar censure charms composition Decemvirs DEFECTIVE VERBS e'en elegant English English Language ev'ry EXAMPLE expression eyes fame fools frequently Future Tense Gender Genitive give glory grace hand happy heart Heav'n's heaven Hector honor Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense Indicative Mood Inelegant Infinitive Mood king kiss language Latin learn'd learned Lord means metaphors might,could mind Mood nature never Nominative Nouns o'er Participle passion Passive Patricians peace Perfect persons pleas'd pleasure Plebeians Pluperfect Tense Plural poetry poets POPE POPE'S HOMER Potential Mood praise Preposition Present Tense pride Pronoun proper racters reason reign Romans Rome round RULE Scythians sense sentence shew Singular smile soul sound speak speech style Subjunctive Mood Substantive sweet syllables thee thing thou thought thro tion to-morrow Verb virtue vowel wise words writing youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 154 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak ; for him have I offended — I pause for a reply.
Seite 234 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Seite 259 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Seite 234 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Some time walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Seite 212 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 263 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Seite 233 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with* thee Jest and youthful Jollity. Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Seite 153 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 237 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 252 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.