The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Հատոր 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... sense would have appeared immediately , had he said , " Never let the 66 man , who may justly be styled the glory of our na- " tion- 99 THE instances now given will suffice to specify the " obscurities in style which arise from ...
... sense would have appeared immediately , had he said , " Never let the 66 man , who may justly be styled the glory of our na- " tion- 99 THE instances now given will suffice to specify the " obscurities in style which arise from ...
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... sense it hath been metaphorically applied to language , this being , as it were , the medium , through which we perceive the notions and sentiments of a speaker . Now , in corporeal things , if the me- dium through which we look at any ...
... sense it hath been metaphorically applied to language , this being , as it were , the medium , through which we perceive the notions and sentiments of a speaker . Now , in corporeal things , if the me- dium through which we look at any ...
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... sense , even when it doth not , as in the preceding instances , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The young man did not want natu- " ral talents ; but the father of him was a coxcomb ...
... sense , even when it doth not , as in the preceding instances , suggest a wrong construction . Of this the following will suffice for an example : " The young man did not want natu- " ral talents ; but the father of him was a coxcomb ...
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... sense is too long suspended by par- entheses . Some critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . * Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. Phil . Fr. 9 ...
... sense is too long suspended by par- entheses . Some critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . * Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. Phil . Fr. 9 ...
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... sense being the only sense which the expression suggests to his mind . Thus the word pound signifies both the sum of twenty shillings sterling , and the weight of sixteen ounces averdupois . Now , if you should tell me , that you rent a ...
... sense being the only sense which the expression suggests to his mind . Thus the word pound signifies both the sum of twenty shillings sterling , and the weight of sixteen ounces averdupois . Now , if you should tell me , that you rent a ...
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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.