A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing : to which is Added a Historical Dissertation on English StyleIvison & Phinney, 1856 - 311 Seiten |
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addressed admiration adverbs allusions Antithe applied argument atheism attained attention called cause caution clauses common comparison composition connected connexion convey deliberative assemblies direct distinct effect elegant emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language English style epithets example excite emotions exercise exhibit familiar faults favorable feelings fitted to excite following passage frequent give given habits happy Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implies infer inkhorn term instances intellectual introduced kind knowledge labor language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature noun Numidia objects and scenes ornaments of style period personification perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition present principles productions pronoun proposition readers reason refer relative pronoun remarks resemblance rhetoric Roger Ascham rules sense sentence shew skill speak student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thought tion traits vivacity words writer Zoroaster
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Seite 251 - ... in every way, but they cannot compass it: it must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.