The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 |
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... refer to those particulars which are pre- dominant in each , though not peculiar to either . SECTION I. OF WIT . To consider the matter more nearly , it is the design of wit to excite in the mind an agreeable surprise , and that arising ...
... refer to those particulars which are pre- dominant in each , though not peculiar to either . SECTION I. OF WIT . To consider the matter more nearly , it is the design of wit to excite in the mind an agreeable surprise , and that arising ...
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... refer the applications of grave reflections to mere trifles . For that great and serious are naturally associated by the mind , and likewise little and trifling , is sufficiently evinced by the common modes of expression on these ...
... refer the applications of grave reflections to mere trifles . For that great and serious are naturally associated by the mind , and likewise little and trifling , is sufficiently evinced by the common modes of expression on these ...
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... refer the reader , as the passage is too long for my transcribing . There is , perhaps , no book in any language , wherein the humorous is carried to a higher pitch of per- fection , than in the adventures of the celebrated knight of La ...
... refer the reader , as the passage is too long for my transcribing . There is , perhaps , no book in any language , wherein the humorous is carried to a higher pitch of per- fection , than in the adventures of the celebrated knight of La ...
Strona 33
... refer . To assign a preposterous motive to an action , or to produce an absurd argument for an opinion , is an innuendo , that no good motive or argument can be given . * The citations from the Rape of the Lock are no otherwise to be ...
... refer . To assign a preposterous motive to an action , or to produce an absurd argument for an opinion , is an innuendo , that no good motive or argument can be given . * The citations from the Rape of the Lock are no otherwise to be ...
Strona 40
... refer ourselves to such univer- sal observations , is to appeal to the common sense of mankind . How admirably is the height of pride and arrogance touched in the character which Cæsar gives of Cassius ! He loves no plays As thou dost ...
... refer ourselves to such univer- sal observations , is to appeal to the common sense of mankind . How admirably is the height of pride and arrogance touched in the character which Cæsar gives of Cassius ! He loves no plays As thou dost ...
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Strona 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Strona 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Strona 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Strona 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Strona 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Strona 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Strona 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Strona 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Strona 309 - 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.
Strona 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.