Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 páginas |
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... verse , it has never ceased to be present in English poetry , though it has greatly declined in favor . It tends to emphasis by means of repetition , and , by the same means , is an aid to memory : I was weary of wanderinge And went me ...
... verse , it has never ceased to be present in English poetry , though it has greatly declined in favor . It tends to emphasis by means of repetition , and , by the same means , is an aid to memory : I was weary of wanderinge And went me ...
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... verse and prose .-- Temple . Omission of the conjunction favors that rapidity which marks and imparts energy . Note the almost simultane- ous connection of cause and effect : For there is wrath gone out from the Lord- -Numbers . - the ...
... verse and prose .-- Temple . Omission of the conjunction favors that rapidity which marks and imparts energy . Note the almost simultane- ous connection of cause and effect : For there is wrath gone out from the Lord- -Numbers . - the ...
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... verse , in Hawthorne's periods , in Ruskin's grand harmonies , who is not sensible of influences quite distinct from the matter ? The same thought , expressed by one author , will make us yawn , by another will startle us . An inferior ...
... verse , in Hawthorne's periods , in Ruskin's grand harmonies , who is not sensible of influences quite distinct from the matter ? The same thought , expressed by one author , will make us yawn , by another will startle us . An inferior ...
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... verse : Blow , winds , and crack your cheeks ! Rage , blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes , spout Till you have drenched our steeples , drowned the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt - couriers to oak ...
... verse : Blow , winds , and crack your cheeks ! Rage , blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes , spout Till you have drenched our steeples , drowned the cocks ! You sulphurous and thought - executing fires , Vaunt - couriers to oak ...
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... verse in the singing psalms , half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion , he pronounces Amen three or four times to the same prayer , and sometimes ...
... verse in the singing psalms , half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it ; sometimes when he is pleased with the matter of his devotion , he pronounces Amen three or four times to the same prayer , and sometimes ...
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Página 238 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Página 182 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Página 86 - Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward : how that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ...
Página 243 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Página 96 - Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Página 4 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion.
Página 179 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Página 97 - Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry
Página 238 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Página 324 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?