The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Հատոր 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... mentioned , the first and most essential is perspicuity . Every speaker doth not propose to please the imagination ; nor is every subject susceptible of those ornaments which conduce to this Much less is it the aim of every purpose ...
... mentioned , the first and most essential is perspicuity . Every speaker doth not propose to please the imagination ; nor is every subject susceptible of those ornaments which conduce to this Much less is it the aim of every purpose ...
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... mentioned qualities , vivacity and animation , which deserves to be remarked . In a dis- course , wherein either or both of these are requisite , it is not every sentence that requires , or even admits them ; but every sentence ought to ...
... mentioned qualities , vivacity and animation , which deserves to be remarked . In a dis- course , wherein either or both of these are requisite , it is not every sentence that requires , or even admits them ; but every sentence ought to ...
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... mentioned , perspicuity may be violated . SECT . I .... The Obscure . PART I .... From Defect . THIS is the first offence against perspicuity , and may arise from several causes . First , from some defect in the expression . There are ...
... mentioned , perspicuity may be violated . SECT . I .... The Obscure . PART I .... From Defect . THIS is the first offence against perspicuity , and may arise from several causes . First , from some defect in the expression . There are ...
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... mention , and the word one , which is here close- ly combined with the preposition of , and makes the regimen of the noun mention . I might observe also the vile application of the word unmercifully . This , together with the ...
... mention , and the word one , which is here close- ly combined with the preposition of , and makes the regimen of the noun mention . I might observe also the vile application of the word unmercifully . This , together with the ...
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... mentioned . The two subsequent quotations from two eminent writers , will serve sufficiently to exemplify more than one of them . The first is from Bolingbroke's Philo- sophy : “ If we are so , contrary to all appearances ( for they ...
... mentioned . The two subsequent quotations from two eminent writers , will serve sufficiently to exemplify more than one of them . The first is from Bolingbroke's Philo- sophy : “ If we are so , contrary to all appearances ( for they ...
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap CHIG choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles produce pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason relation remark rendered Rhetorical tropes RSITY Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences SITY sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence things thought tion tongue translation UNIV verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Էջ 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Էջ 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Էջ 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Էջ 379 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Էջ 291 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Էջ 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Էջ 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Էջ 312 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Էջ 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Էջ 200 - 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.