The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 |
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Strona viii
... vivacity as depending on the choice of words ............ . SECT . I. Proper terms .. 277 278 284 Part I. Preliminary observations concerning tropes . Part II . The different sorts of tropes conducive to vivacity .. 1. The less for the ...
... vivacity as depending on the choice of words ............ . SECT . I. Proper terms .. 277 278 284 Part I. Preliminary observations concerning tropes . Part II . The different sorts of tropes conducive to vivacity .. 1. The less for the ...
Strona 16
... vivacity of the address , in turning from the audience to the person declaimed against , the energy of the expres- sions , the repetition , exclamation , interrogation , and climax of aggravating circum stances , accumulated with ...
... vivacity of the address , in turning from the audience to the person declaimed against , the energy of the expres- sions , the repetition , exclamation , interrogation , and climax of aggravating circum stances , accumulated with ...
Strona 79
... Vivacity of ideas is not always accompanied with faith , nor is faith always able to produce vivacity . The ideas raised in my mind by the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles , or the Lear of Shakspeare , are incomparably more lively than ...
... Vivacity of ideas is not always accompanied with faith , nor is faith always able to produce vivacity . The ideas raised in my mind by the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles , or the Lear of Shakspeare , are incomparably more lively than ...
Strona 163
... vivacity than a periphrasis , to compensate for the defect of harmony . Another criterion is , when a word is so formed and accented as to render it of difficult utterance to the speaker , and consequently dis- agreeable in sound to the ...
... vivacity than a periphrasis , to compensate for the defect of harmony . Another criterion is , when a word is so formed and accented as to render it of difficult utterance to the speaker , and consequently dis- agreeable in sound to the ...
Strona 188
... vivacity , but even elegance and animation derive a lustre . SECTION III . THE IMPROPRIETY . I COME now to consider the third and last class of faults against purity , to which I gave the name of impropriety . The barbarism is an ...
... vivacity , but even elegance and animation derive a lustre . SECTION III . THE IMPROPRIETY . I COME now to consider the third and last class of faults against purity , to which I gave the name of impropriety . The barbarism is an ...
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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.