The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and Illustrated with ExamplesGinn, 1900 - 676 páginas |
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... present volume . He has aimed to traverse broadly the field of rhetoric , setting forth its working principles by defini- tion , explication , and example . In his aim have also been included the utmost attainable clearness , simplicity ...
... present volume . He has aimed to traverse broadly the field of rhetoric , setting forth its working principles by defini- tion , explication , and example . In his aim have also been included the utmost attainable clearness , simplicity ...
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... present work frankly accepts . Its standard is literary ; it is concerned , as real authorship must be , not with a mere grammatical apparatus or with Huxley's logic engine , but with the whole man , his outfit of conviction and emotion ...
... present work frankly accepts . Its standard is literary ; it is concerned , as real authorship must be , not with a mere grammatical apparatus or with Huxley's logic engine , but with the whole man , his outfit of conviction and emotion ...
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... present volume has no room . It is the author's intention , in due time , to publish in a companion volume what is here lacking . In the reading of the proofs the author has had , and hereby thankfully acknowledges , the much - valued ...
... present volume has no room . It is the author's intention , in due time , to publish in a companion volume what is here lacking . In the reading of the proofs the author has had , and hereby thankfully acknowledges , the much - valued ...
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... 8 16-26 19 88 、 20 23 27-43 29 33 37 41 Chapter III . - Choice of Words for Denotation . 46-74 I. Accurate Use 46 II . Intelligible Use III . Present Use IV . Scholarly Use • 52 61 68 - Chapter IV . Words and Figures for Connotation . ix.
... 8 16-26 19 88 、 20 23 27-43 29 33 37 41 Chapter III . - Choice of Words for Denotation . 46-74 I. Accurate Use 46 II . Intelligible Use III . Present Use IV . Scholarly Use • 52 61 68 - Chapter IV . Words and Figures for Connotation . ix.
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... present , and keep them from blundering and feeble ways . And each mode of approach so helps the other that in practice the two , science and art , cannot attain their best disjoined . NOTE . The present manual , because it regards the ...
... present , and keep them from blundering and feeble ways . And each mode of approach so helps the other that in practice the two , science and art , cannot attain their best disjoined . NOTE . The present manual , because it regards the ...
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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.