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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... former illustration , follows the natural order : " Tantam mansuetu- dinem , tam inusitatem inauditamque clementiam , tantumque in sum- ma potestate rerum omnium modum , tacitus nullo modo præterire possum . " * The object , that which ...
... former illustration , follows the natural order : " Tantam mansuetu- dinem , tam inusitatem inauditamque clementiam , tantumque in sum- ma potestate rerum omnium modum , tacitus nullo modo præterire possum . " * The object , that which ...
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... former , as to su- persede , in most cases , the necessity , and even the propriety , of using the latter ; the palpable relation between the adjective and the sub- stantive , indicated by the invariable agreement of the former with the ...
... former , as to su- persede , in most cases , the necessity , and even the propriety , of using the latter ; the palpable relation between the adjective and the sub- stantive , indicated by the invariable agreement of the former with the ...
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... former , is among the latest attainments of polished nations . Good poetry is perfectly consistent with no high degree of pre- cision of thought , or accuracy of expression . ( Art . 20. Cor . ) Пlus . The period most favourable for ...
... former , is among the latest attainments of polished nations . Good poetry is perfectly consistent with no high degree of pre- cision of thought , or accuracy of expression . ( Art . 20. Cor . ) Пlus . The period most favourable for ...
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... former class ; the alpha- betical characters , now employed by all Europeans , are signs for words , and belong to the latter class . Illus . Pictures were , undoubtedly , the first essay toward writing . Imitation is natural to man ...
... former class ; the alpha- betical characters , now employed by all Europeans , are signs for words , and belong to the latter class . Illus . Pictures were , undoubtedly , the first essay toward writing . Imitation is natural to man ...
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... former were too enlightened not to know , that one of the principal pleasures an hon- ors attending the possession of knowledge , is to instruct others . 36. As writing advanced , from pictures of visible objects to hieroglyphics , or ...
... former were too enlightened not to know , that one of the principal pleasures an hon- ors attending the possession of knowledge , is to instruct others . 36. As writing advanced , from pictures of visible objects to hieroglyphics , or ...
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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.