The Elements of RhetoricHarper, 1882 - 564 pages |
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... genius prefer the plain and unaffect- ed manner to the grand and imposing . Such simplicity is often combined with easy grace and tender pathos ; and its effect is more striking in times when an artificial diction is in vogue . Thus ...
... genius prefer the plain and unaffect- ed manner to the grand and imposing . Such simplicity is often combined with easy grace and tender pathos ; and its effect is more striking in times when an artificial diction is in vogue . Thus ...
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... genius of our language , but merely to avoid such as are not in common use ; and , again , when an Anglo - Saxon word is as ex- pressive as a Latin word , to give the former the preference . § 17. IMPORTANCE OF THE LATIN ELEMENT IN OUR ...
... genius of our language , but merely to avoid such as are not in common use ; and , again , when an Anglo - Saxon word is as ex- pressive as a Latin word , to give the former the preference . § 17. IMPORTANCE OF THE LATIN ELEMENT IN OUR ...
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... from among all men as the highest example of human genius . of his character affords a still better instance . The summary In these three words are found that popular estimate of this great man 28 Elements of Rhetoric .
... from among all men as the highest example of human genius . of his character affords a still better instance . The summary In these three words are found that popular estimate of this great man 28 Elements of Rhetoric .
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... genius led him irresistibly to all forms of the beautiful : 66 ' While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy , Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain , To thy high requiem become a sod . " The epithet ...
... genius led him irresistibly to all forms of the beautiful : 66 ' While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy , Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain , To thy high requiem become a sod . " The epithet ...
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... genius and in- fluence . Thus Shakespeare , Addison , and Johnson intro- duced new words , to which their names afterwards gave a sanc- tion . In our own day Carlyle , Coleridge , Tennyson , and Browning have introduced or given ...
... genius and in- fluence . Thus Shakespeare , Addison , and Johnson intro- duced new words , to which their names afterwards gave a sanc- tion . In our own day Carlyle , Coleridge , Tennyson , and Browning have introduced or given ...
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Æneid allusion ancient Anglo-Saxon antithesis argument arises associated Asyndeton beautiful Burke Burke's called character chief chiefly Cicero clauses common composition considered Demosthenes East India Bill effect elegance emotion emphasis English English language epithets euphony example exhibit expression fault feeling fiction figures of speech following passage force French frequent genius give Greek harmony hearers heaven honor human humor idea Iliad illustrated importance Jean Peltier Julius Cæsar kind king language Latin literature Lord means metaphor Milton mind modern narration narrative nature never object onomatopoeia orator oratory order of thought Paradise Lost passion periphrasis perspicuity poem poet poetry polysyndeton present proposition prose qualities Quincey Quintilian reader refers rhetoric ridiculous satire says scenes secondly seen sentence sentiments Shakespeare sometimes soul sound speaker statement style subject-matter sublime taste thee things thou Thucydides tion vivacity Warren Hastings words writer
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Page 99 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
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Page 387 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of Darkness till it smiled...
Page 187 - That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth ! Must I remember/ why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on...
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Page 316 - ... The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...