Working Principles of Rhetoric ...Ginn & Company, 1900 - 676 páginas |
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... better and worse.1 What is good for one occasion or one class of readers or one subject may be bad for another ; what will be powerful to effect one object may be quite out of place for another . Thus it traverses from beginning to end ...
... better and worse.1 What is good for one occasion or one class of readers or one subject may be bad for another ; what will be powerful to effect one object may be quite out of place for another . Thus it traverses from beginning to end ...
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... better arranged its parts , the greater will be the effect produced . In either case , whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result . A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power ...
... better arranged its parts , the greater will be the effect produced . In either case , whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result . A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power ...
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... better state of things has begun to show itself . But at present it is only a tendency , a symptom , a foreshadowing . ” From James Russell Lowell : “ So also Shakespeare no doubt projected himself in his own creations ; but those ...
... better state of things has begun to show itself . But at present it is only a tendency , a symptom , a foreshadowing . ” From James Russell Lowell : “ So also Shakespeare no doubt projected himself in his own creations ; but those ...
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... better than nothing , but that more intimate feeling or tact which comes from familiarity with the structure and spirit of the original language . Herein lies the true practical value of classical study : it gives ancestry and family ...
... better than nothing , but that more intimate feeling or tact which comes from familiarity with the structure and spirit of the original language . Herein lies the true practical value of classical study : it gives ancestry and family ...
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... better grammar and better usage to say , " I do not doubt that this is so . " The word but is sometimes retained even when what is changed to that ; but this is unnecessary . The proper particles to use with doubt are : affirmative ...
... better grammar and better usage to say , " I do not doubt that this is so . " The word but is sometimes retained even when what is changed to that ; but this is unnecessary . The proper particles to use with doubt are : affirmative ...
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adjective 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 element emotion employed English Prose epithet 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 MATTHEW ARNOLD means ment merely metre metrical mind mood movement musical narrative natural NOTE noun object occasion paragraph passage pause phrasal phrase poetic poetic diction poetry present principle quoted reader reference relation relative relative clause rhetorical rhyme rhythm sense sound speech spondee stanza STEVENSON story stress style subordinate suggestion syllables syllogism tence tendency Tennyson things thought tion trimeter trochaic trochee truth verb verse W. D. HOWELLS wherein whole words writer
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Página 186 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 304 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 304 - 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 26 - 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 185 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:
Página 112 - 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 264 - 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 653 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Página 642 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 501 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.