A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence : Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ... |
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... admits , cannot fail to prove useful . The conclusion of the work treats of pronunciation , or delivery , as it respects , chiefly , public speaking ; and here , as in Book VI . and VII . , the labours of the Author's pre- decessors ...
... admits , cannot fail to prove useful . The conclusion of the work treats of pronunciation , or delivery , as it respects , chiefly , public speaking ; and here , as in Book VI . and VII . , the labours of the Author's pre- decessors ...
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... admit Hyperbole 178 Errors in the Use of Hyperbole 179 Hyperboles are not properly introduced till the Mind of the Reader is prepared to relish them 180 Hyperboles improper when they may be turned against the Argu- CONTENTS . хий.
... admit Hyperbole 178 Errors in the Use of Hyperbole 179 Hyperboles are not properly introduced till the Mind of the Reader is prepared to relish them 180 Hyperboles improper when they may be turned against the Argu- CONTENTS . хий.
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... admit the Pathetic , and render it proper , and if it does , what Part of the Discourse is the fittest for attempting it . Page 249 250 250 250 251 251 252 252 253 253 254 254 ..... Never to set apart a Head of a Discourse in Form , for ...
... admit the Pathetic , and render it proper , and if it does , what Part of the Discourse is the fittest for attempting it . Page 249 250 250 250 251 251 252 252 253 253 254 254 ..... Never to set apart a Head of a Discourse in Form , for ...
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... admit of two varieties , the MASCULINE and FEMININE genders , agreeably to the distinction of living creatures into male and female . All other substantive nouns ought to be- long to what grammarians call the neuter gender , which is a ...
... admit of two varieties , the MASCULINE and FEMININE genders , agreeably to the distinction of living creatures into male and female . All other substantive nouns ought to be- long to what grammarians call the neuter gender , which is a ...
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... admit a future tense , because no ideas of future intentions and dispositions exist in the mind of man , which it may communicate . 3. The tense I shall have loved , commonly called " the future of the subjunctive , ' , " has no ...
... admit a future tense , because no ideas of future intentions and dispositions exist in the mind of man , which it may communicate . 3. The tense I shall have loved , commonly called " the future of the subjunctive , ' , " has no ...
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action Addison adjectives admit adverbs Æneid agent agreeable allegory ambiguity Analysis appear arrangement attention beauty Cæsar Catiline character Cicero circumstances common comparison composition convey Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denotes dignity discourse effect employed equivocal Example expression figure former frequent genius give grace hath hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad Illus imagination impression instance ject Julius Cæsar kind language Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscurity observe orator ornament Ossian passion period person personification perspicuity Pharsalia phrases pleasure poem poet poetry polished languages possess precision preposition principles pronouns proper propriety qualities Quinctilian reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiment Shakspeare signify similes sometimes sound speak species speech style sublime substantive syllables taste tence things thou thought tion trochees verb verse Virgil virtue words writing
Popular passages
Page 132 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Page 134 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Page 161 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Page 66 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 291 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 156 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 291 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 168 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 155 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 156 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.