The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and Illustrated with ExamplesGinn, 1900 - 676 páginas |
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... NOTE . The word discourse , which is popularly understood of some- thing oral , as a speech or a conversation , will be used throughout this treatise to denote any coherent literary production , whether spoken or written . The term is ...
... NOTE . The word discourse , which is popularly understood of some- thing oral , as a speech or a conversation , will be used throughout this treatise to denote any coherent literary production , whether spoken or written . The term is ...
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... NOTE . The derived and literary uses of the word rhetoric all start from the recognition of the adaptedness of speech , as wielded by skill and art , to produce spiritual effects . When , for instance , Milton says of Satan , " the ...
... NOTE . The derived and literary uses of the word rhetoric all start from the recognition of the adaptedness of speech , as wielded by skill and art , to produce spiritual effects . When , for instance , Milton says of Satan , " the ...
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... note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas . Thus I lived with words . And what I thus wrote was for no ulte- rior use , it was written consciously for practice . It was not so much that I wished to be an ...
... note down the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas . Thus I lived with words . And what I thus wrote was for no ulte- rior use , it was written consciously for practice . It was not so much that I wished to be an ...
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... NOTE . In the two descriptions quoted above , while both writers deal with the same basis of fact , the thought embodied in the fact , as fits in each case the object had in portraying the fact , is different . In the first the ...
... NOTE . In the two descriptions quoted above , while both writers deal with the same basis of fact , the thought embodied in the fact , as fits in each case the object had in portraying the fact , is different . In the first the ...
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... NOTE . - The following is the paragraph of Mr. Spencer's book in which the principle is set forth : - " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims , we may see shadowed forth in many of them , the importance of ...
... NOTE . - The following is the paragraph of Mr. Spencer's book in which the principle is set forth : - " On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims , we may see shadowed forth in many of them , the importance of ...
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adverb alliteration amphibrach anapestic antecedent antithesis argument assertion beauty become blank verse cæsura called character clause clear coloring composition conjunctions connotation coördinate definition diction discourse distinction EARLE effect elements Elements of Style emotion employed English Prose epithets essay euphony EXAMPLES exposition expression fact feeling figure following sentence give grammatical iambic iambus idea idiom illustrate imagination important invention kind language less literary literature litotes logical MATTHEW ARNOLD means ment merely metre metrical mind mood movement musical narrative natural NOTE object occasion paragraph passage pause phrasal phrase poetic poetic diction poetry present principle quoted reader relation relative relative clause rhetorical rhyme rhythm sense sound speech spondee stanza story style subordinate suggestion syllables syllogism tence tendency Tennyson things thought tion trimeter trochaic trochee truth usage verb verse wherein whole words writer
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Página 114 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Página 28 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 151 - In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a, weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon ; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below.
Página 306 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Página 78 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare with the English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 266 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of...
Página 50 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished — I am shocked to hear such principles confessed — -to hear them avowed in this house or in this country.
Página 644 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible. Even genius itself then feels rebuked and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Then patriotism is eloquent; then selfdevotion is eloquent. The clear conception, outrunning...
Página 182 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Página 410 - Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.