The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a Familiar Companion for All that Care to Speak and Write CorrectlyD. Appleton, 1903 - 368 páginas |
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... original senses of gifted or fitted for , pertinent or apposite . Thus : " He is apt to teach , " " She made an apt quotation . " But by far the most common use of it is in the sense of likely or liable , when it would be better to use ...
... original senses of gifted or fitted for , pertinent or apposite . Thus : " He is apt to teach , " " She made an apt quotation . " But by far the most common use of it is in the sense of likely or liable , when it would be better to use ...
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... original word is the verb assail . This has all the qualities desirable in a word . It is distinct in its sound , not likely to be mistaken if spoken careless- ly ; it is strong in prose and musical in poetry . From it we have the noun ...
... original word is the verb assail . This has all the qualities desirable in a word . It is distinct in its sound , not likely to be mistaken if spoken careless- ly ; it is strong in prose and musical in poetry . From it we have the noun ...
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... original meaning . 66 Construction . - See ARRANGEMENT . Conversation . - This word does not always mean the same thing . Sometimes it means that every- body is talking at once , and the salad is going round and the piano is heard at ...
... original meaning . 66 Construction . - See ARRANGEMENT . Conversation . - This word does not always mean the same thing . Sometimes it means that every- body is talking at once , and the salad is going round and the piano is heard at ...
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... original narrator ) exclaims , “ Oh , you should have been here a little sooner to hear Mr. Smith's story , " and immediately , instead of requesting Mr. Smith to repeat the story , pro- ceeds to repeat it himself . Not only is this ...
... original narrator ) exclaims , “ Oh , you should have been here a little sooner to hear Mr. Smith's story , " and immediately , instead of requesting Mr. Smith to repeat the story , pro- ceeds to repeat it himself . Not only is this ...
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... original verb is draw , and from this we have the noun draft . And then we proceed to talk about drafting a constitution , or drafting a bill , or drafting a plan , when we should simply say drawing . The addition of up to draw is ...
... original verb is draw , and from this we have the noun draft . And then we proceed to talk about drafting a constitution , or drafting a bill , or drafting a plan , when we should simply say drawing . The addition of up to draw is ...
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adjective adverb alliteration allusion anapestic anastrophe apodosis appears audience beauty begins better Brutus Cæsar called Chapter character Childe Harold clause common considered conversation correct declaration effect elegant English erroneous error essay euphony example expression fact figure frequently give grammatical habit hath hearers History humor idea imagination imperfect tense instance John Julius Cæsar language lines literature meaning metaphor mind musical necessary never noun novel omitted once orator original perfect perhaps persons phrase piece pleonastic plural poem poet poetry preface preposition produce pronoun proper prose protasis quotation reason reciter relative pronoun repeated repetition rhetoric rhymes rhythm Richard Grant White Robert Browning rule sense sentence simile simply sion slang solecism sometimes speak speaker speech split infinitive stanza story style superfluous syllable taste tence tense term thing thought tion trochaic usually verb voice word writes written Zeugma
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Página 139 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Página 126 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 147 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Página 215 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Página 133 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Página 138 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Página 190 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Página 218 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine...
Página 96 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Página 324 - They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.