The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Հատոր 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1801 |
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... phrase the glory of our nation is figurative , and denotes a certain illustrious personage . The trope is rather too adventurous , without some softening clause , to suit the idiom of our tongue . The sense would have appeared ...
... phrase the glory of our nation is figurative , and denotes a certain illustrious personage . The trope is rather too adventurous , without some softening clause , to suit the idiom of our tongue . The sense would have appeared ...
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... eye . " The si- tuation of the last phrase , which is besides a very bad * Voyage to Laputa . Guardian , No. 19 . 66 + Voyage to the Honyhnhnms .. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part II . From 12 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
... eye . " The si- tuation of the last phrase , which is besides a very bad * Voyage to Laputa . Guardian , No. 19 . 66 + Voyage to the Honyhnhnms .. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part II . From 12 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
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... phrases , as in the following passage : Tack to the larboard , and stand off to sea , Veer starboard sea and land . * Dryden's Æneid . Of perspicuity . What an absurd profusion , in an B 3 Chap . VI . 21 RHETORIC . From technical terms.
... phrases , as in the following passage : Tack to the larboard , and stand off to sea , Veer starboard sea and land . * Dryden's Æneid . Of perspicuity . What an absurd profusion , in an B 3 Chap . VI . 21 RHETORIC . From technical terms.
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... phrase , or other ambiguity , with an intention to deceive , it doth not differ essentially from a lie . This offence falls under the reproof of the moralist , not the censure of the rhe- torician . Again , when the word denotes , as ...
... phrase , or other ambiguity , with an intention to deceive , it doth not differ essentially from a lie . This offence falls under the reproof of the moralist , not the censure of the rhe- torician . Again , when the word denotes , as ...
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... phrase . As to the former , there is scarce any of the parts of speech , in which you will not find equivocal terms . To begin with particles ; the preposition of denotes sometimes the relation which any affection bears to Sect . II ...
... phrase . As to the former , there is scarce any of the parts of speech , in which you will not find equivocal terms . To begin with particles ; the preposition of denotes sometimes the relation which any affection bears to Sect . II ...
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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.