Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 páginas |
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... words according to law ; to enable the person of brain and emotion to put himself in communica- tion with the minds and hearts of others under the most favorable circumstances ; to guide and develop ; to shorten the time and the ...
... words according to law ; to enable the person of brain and emotion to put himself in communica- tion with the minds and hearts of others under the most favorable circumstances ; to guide and develop ; to shorten the time and the ...
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... words are placed as near as practicable to the words modified . This syntactical and customary succession is observed so long as it coincides with the usual order of thought . To express the latter suitably , however , the former is ...
... words are placed as near as practicable to the words modified . This syntactical and customary succession is observed so long as it coincides with the usual order of thought . To express the latter suitably , however , the former is ...
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... words occupy corresponding places , are said to be balanced . Frequently the balanced expressions have contrasted mean- ings . When not carried to excess , this structure is evi- dently agreeable to the ear , and helpful to the memory ...
... words occupy corresponding places , are said to be balanced . Frequently the balanced expressions have contrasted mean- ings . When not carried to excess , this structure is evi- dently agreeable to the ear , and helpful to the memory ...
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... They affect the form , meaning , and arrangement of words , rising in value and complexity from a designedly false 16 spelling or an intentional obsoletism to the most elaborate variation CHAPTER III METHODS OF EXPRESSION FIGURES -
... They affect the form , meaning , and arrangement of words , rising in value and complexity from a designedly false 16 spelling or an intentional obsoletism to the most elaborate variation CHAPTER III METHODS OF EXPRESSION FIGURES -
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... words imports one thing — a material object ; their intent , another - a spiritual condition . When , as in these examples , words are employed to signify some- thing different from their original and common meaning , they are said to ...
... words imports one thing — a material object ; their intent , another - a spiritual condition . When , as in these examples , words are employed to signify some- thing different from their original and common meaning , they are said to ...
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Página 46 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 142 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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 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 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 ?
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 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 245 - Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?
Página 96 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Página 244 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...