An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricT. Elwood Zell, 1854 - 230 էջ |
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... English Tongue . Style . - Perspicuity and Precision . Structure of Sentences . - Harmony 5 13 17 · 24 32 38 45 • 50 54 60 64 68 73 Origin and Nature of Figurative Language 79 Metaphor 83 Hyperbole 88 Personification and Apostrophe ...
... English Tongue . Style . - Perspicuity and Precision . Structure of Sentences . - Harmony 5 13 17 · 24 32 38 45 • 50 54 60 64 68 73 Origin and Nature of Figurative Language 79 Metaphor 83 Hyperbole 88 Personification and Apostrophe ...
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... English Versification 172 Pastoral Poetry 174 Lyric Poetry 178 Didactic Poetry 180 Descriptive Poetry 182 The Poetry of the Hebrews 186 Epic Poetry 189 ... English Tragedy Comedy Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English CONTENTS .
... English Versification 172 Pastoral Poetry 174 Lyric Poetry 178 Didactic Poetry 180 Descriptive Poetry 182 The Poetry of the Hebrews 186 Epic Poetry 189 ... English Tragedy Comedy Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English CONTENTS .
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Hugh Blair. English Tragedy Comedy Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English Comedy PAGE 220 222 225 226 · 227 228 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal CONTENTS . 7.
Hugh Blair. English Tragedy Comedy Ancient Comedy Spanish Comedy French Comedy English Comedy PAGE 220 222 225 226 · 227 228 INTRODUCTION . A PROPER acquaintance with the circle of liberal CONTENTS . 7.
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... English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so distinguished mildness , so singular and unheard of clemency , and so uncommon moderation in the exer- cise of ...
... English writer , paying a compliment to a great man , would say , " It is impossible for me to pass over in silence so distinguished mildness , so singular and unheard of clemency , and so uncommon moderation in the exer- cise of ...
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... English has more inversion than the rest ; and the French has the least of all . Writing is an improvement upon speech , and con- sequently was posterior to it in order of time . Its characters are of two kinds , signs of things , an ...
... English has more inversion than the rest ; and the French has the least of all . Writing is an improvement upon speech , and con- sequently was posterior to it in order of time . Its characters are of two kinds , signs of things , an ...
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Էջ 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Էջ 88 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Էջ 74 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Էջ 25 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Էջ 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Էջ 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Էջ 110 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Էջ 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Էջ 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.