A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred from Examples of WritingShirley & Hyde, 1829 - 252 |
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... attention to the most prominent excellencies of style and its most common faults . At the same time , it requires a degree of investigation which every instructer cannot give to the subject , to discover the reasons of the approbation ...
... attention to the most prominent excellencies of style and its most common faults . At the same time , it requires a degree of investigation which every instructer cannot give to the subject , to discover the reasons of the approbation ...
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... attention had been engaged , -that we had been pleased , and if the subject was one which could interest the feel- ings , that we had been moved . If from being conscious of these effects we are led to search for their causes , we shall ...
... attention had been engaged , -that we had been pleased , and if the subject was one which could interest the feel- ings , that we had been moved . If from being conscious of these effects we are led to search for their causes , we shall ...
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... attention , to please and to move us , and conse- quently has acquired the reputation of a good writer ? Now if this view be just , we may infer , that the foun- dations of good writing are laid in the acquisition of the stores of ...
... attention , to please and to move us , and conse- quently has acquired the reputation of a good writer ? Now if this view be just , we may infer , that the foun- dations of good writing are laid in the acquisition of the stores of ...
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... attention more immediately to the style , and exam- ine its correctness , perspicuity , smoothness , adaptation of the subject and the various qualities of a good style . The course here marked out , as that of the critic in the ...
... attention more immediately to the style , and exam- ine its correctness , perspicuity , smoothness , adaptation of the subject and the various qualities of a good style . The course here marked out , as that of the critic in the ...
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... attention . He must be always and everywhere a learner . Especially must he seek after a knowledge of facts , and distinct views of receiv- ed opinions on important subjects . He will be mindful , that the extent of his knowledge will ...
... attention . He must be always and everywhere a learner . Especially must he seek after a knowledge of facts , and distinct views of receiv- ed opinions on important subjects . He will be mindful , that the extent of his knowledge will ...
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addressed admiration adverbs allusions applied attempt Bowdoin College called cause caution circumstances clauses common comparison conjunctions connected connexion convey discourse distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English English language epithets Eurystheus excite an emotion excite emotions exercise exhibit expression feelings fitted to excite following example frequent give given habits happy Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implied importance infer instances intellectual introduced ject kind labour language literary taste look meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind Moss-side nature ness noun Numidia objects and scenes obscurity ornaments of style passage Personifications perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition principles productions pronoun quality of style readers reference regarded relative pronoun remarks resemblance rience rules sense sentence shew shewn signification skill speak subject and occasion sublimity synecdoche tence thought tion tivated Verbal Criticism vivacity words writer Zoroaster
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Strona 103 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Strona 64 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door; The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Strona 231 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every...
Strona 231 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Strona 66 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Strona 37 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Strona 27 - My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly...
Strona 69 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us : and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Strona 223 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Strona 66 - Zee lay motionless and glassy, excepting that here and there a gentle undulation waved and prolonged the blue shadow of the distant mountain. A few amber clouds floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.