A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred from Examples of WritingShirley & Hyde, 1829 - 252 էջ |
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... which is not found in its more formal statement . And hence , when the metaphor is extended through different clauses , an emotion of taste may be excited in view of the fitness of the different parts in their 78 ON LITERARY TASTE .
... which is not found in its more formal statement . And hence , when the metaphor is extended through different clauses , an emotion of taste may be excited in view of the fitness of the different parts in their 78 ON LITERARY TASTE .
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... clauses . Suppose that the latter part of this example had read , “ As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ... clause -- " the increas- ing weight of probability , " is led astray , and the whole image becomes confused . This then ...
... clauses . Suppose that the latter part of this example had read , “ As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its ... clause -- " the increas- ing weight of probability , " is led astray , and the whole image becomes confused . This then ...
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... clauses , and of the use of words forbidden to prose ; and hence it enables a writer to convey a thought in a sententious and striking manner . But here the caution may be given , not to introduce poetical expressions with great ...
... clauses , and of the use of words forbidden to prose ; and hence it enables a writer to convey a thought in a sententious and striking manner . But here the caution may be given , not to introduce poetical expressions with great ...
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... Sentences are either simple or complex . A simple sentence consists of a single member . A complex sen- tence consists of several members , and these members are sometimes subdivided into clauses . " The sun shines . " This is a simple ...
... Sentences are either simple or complex . A simple sentence consists of a single member . A complex sen- tence consists of several members , and these members are sometimes subdivided into clauses . " The sun shines . " This is a simple ...
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... clauses , there is no place be- fore the close , where the reader may stop with a dis- tinct view in his mind . This account of the period is in agreement with the ... clauses and members , it will readily occur , that 124 ON SENTENCES .
... clauses , there is no place be- fore the close , where the reader may stop with a dis- tinct view in his mind . This account of the period is in agreement with the ... clauses and members , it will readily occur , that 124 ON SENTENCES .
Common terms and phrases
addressed admiration adverbs allusions applied attempt Bowdoin College called cause caution circumstances clauses common comparison conjunctions connected connexion convey discourse distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English English language epithets Eurystheus excite an emotion excite emotions exercise exhibit expression feelings fitted to excite following example frequent give given habits happy Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implied importance infer instances intellectual introduced ject kind labour language literary taste look meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind Moss-side nature ness noun Numidia objects and scenes obscurity ornaments of style passage Personifications perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition principles productions pronoun quality of style readers reference regarded relative pronoun remarks resemblance rience rules sense sentence shew shewn signification skill speak subject and occasion sublimity synecdoche tence thought tion tivated Verbal Criticism vivacity words writer Zoroaster
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Էջ 103 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Էջ 64 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Էջ 231 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every...
Էջ 231 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Էջ 66 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Էջ 37 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Էջ 27 - My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly...
Էջ 69 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Էջ 223 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Էջ 66 - Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.