A System of RhetoricA. S. Barnes & Company, 1884 - 673 páginas |
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Página xxii
... poetic license , or in very elevated prose ( and even there with great discretion ) , is not English , it is not clear , it is not natural . No good speaker of English would talk in this style , even in the soberest conversation . If I ...
... poetic license , or in very elevated prose ( and even there with great discretion ) , is not English , it is not clear , it is not natural . No good speaker of English would talk in this style , even in the soberest conversation . If I ...
Página xxxiv
... Poet laureate , governor - general , lord paramount , knight errant , States General , court martial , body politic , notary public , sign- manual , Theatre Royal , letters patent , time immemorial , bride elect . Compare lord ...
... Poet laureate , governor - general , lord paramount , knight errant , States General , court martial , body politic , notary public , sign- manual , Theatre Royal , letters patent , time immemorial , bride elect . Compare lord ...
Página xl
... Poet and Philosopher alike employ imagination . ( iii . ) In such expressions as , He became captain , He was elected chairman , The rank of major , The relation of mother and child . ( iv . ) In some few recognized idioms , growing out ...
... Poet and Philosopher alike employ imagination . ( iii . ) In such expressions as , He became captain , He was elected chairman , The rank of major , The relation of mother and child . ( iv . ) In some few recognized idioms , growing out ...
Página xliv
... poetic diction , by which imbecile writers fancy they elevate their prose - would but that to his vexation he meets with it of late in the compositions of men that least of all need such ar- tifices , and who ought to watch over the ...
... poetic diction , by which imbecile writers fancy they elevate their prose - would but that to his vexation he meets with it of late in the compositions of men that least of all need such ar- tifices , and who ought to watch over the ...
Página xci
... poet's minor pieces . Philosophers have been at a loss , to explain always the secret of the strange power , which patriotic tunes exercise over the armies of nations . TOPICAL ANALYSIS . Composition , p . xvii . The SEC . 1 ] xcí ...
... poet's minor pieces . Philosophers have been at a loss , to explain always the secret of the strange power , which patriotic tunes exercise over the armies of nations . TOPICAL ANALYSIS . Composition , p . xvii . The SEC . 1 ] xcí ...
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Página 81 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Página 272 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
Página 138 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 596 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Página 517 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página cxxxiv - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
Página xxxix - And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others : 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray ; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
Página 87 - I do not mean to be disrespectful, but the attempt of the Lords to stop the progress of reform, reminds me very forcibly of the great storm of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the excellent Mrs. Partington on that occasion. In the winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town — the tide rose to an incredible height — the waves rushed in upon the houses, and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm, Dame Partington, who lived upon the...
Página 475 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Página 485 - Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? "They that tarry long at the wine, they that go to seek mixed wine.