The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative ExamplesGinn, 1892 - 488 páginas |
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... phrases and sentences , with a view to ascertaining what are the facts of the language ; and when these are presented so as to show what is correct in expression , its end is accomplished . Rhetoric , also , employs the facts of the ...
... phrases and sentences , with a view to ascertaining what are the facts of the language ; and when these are presented so as to show what is correct in expression , its end is accomplished . Rhetoric , also , employs the facts of the ...
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... phrase and sentence . Its order is logical rather than chronological . In every literary undertaking , and with care for it increasing instead of diminishing , the skilled writer's fundamental labor is devoted to patient management of ...
... phrase and sentence . Its order is logical rather than chronological . In every literary undertaking , and with care for it increasing instead of diminishing , the skilled writer's fundamental labor is devoted to patient management of ...
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... phrases and sentences , and is perhaps the most easily reduced to rules of any of the qualities of style . It calls for the mental habit of keeping strict note of all relations of words to each other , of leaving no word till its ...
... phrases and sentences , and is perhaps the most easily reduced to rules of any of the qualities of style . It calls for the mental habit of keeping strict note of all relations of words to each other , of leaving no word till its ...
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... phrases related to one another . In a word , he is to aim at smoothness and melody of expression , so far as these will not impair more important qualities . The readiest training for this quality of style is to STYLE IN GENERAL . 23.
... phrases related to one another . In a word , he is to aim at smoothness and melody of expression , so far as these will not impair more important qualities . The readiest training for this quality of style is to STYLE IN GENERAL . 23.
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... phrases that , instead of supplementing the sense , encumber it . " " In verse he had a pomp which , excellent in itself , became pompousness in his imitators . " Synonyms employed for their likeness promote flexibility of ex- pression ...
... phrases that , instead of supplementing the sense , encumber it . " " In verse he had a pomp which , excellent in itself , became pompousness in his imitators . " Synonyms employed for their likeness promote flexibility of ex- pression ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adapted adverb alliteration antecedent argument beauty become called Cardinal Newman Caroline of Brunswick character clause clearness condensed conjunctions construction coördinate course definite discourse distinction Don Francis effect elements emotion emphasis employed English epithets essay EXAMPLES expression fact feeling figure figure of speech George Henry Lewes give grammatical habit hearer idea illustrate imagination important indicated instance intellectual invention kind language laws less literary literature logical Macaulay manner Matthew Arnold means merely Metonymy mind narrative nature NOTE object observed occasion oratory paragraph passage periodic sentence phrases poetic diction poetry preceding present principle pronoun quality of style reader reference regarded relation relative relative clause repetition requires rhetoric seek sense sentence simile sion sometimes sound speech spirit statement structure subordinate suggestive Synecdoche taste tence theme things thought tion truth verb whole word-painting words
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Página 368 - I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord : he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die.
Página 344 - I have of late , (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth, foregone 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 appeareth nothing to me, but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 343 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Página 162 - 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 55 - 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 336 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge.
Página 312 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Página 474 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 313 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Página 128 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock, and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.