The Elements of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1878 - 564 Seiten |
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... a foolish son is a heaviness to his mother ; " thirdly , the causative , as , " As he was valiant , I honor him ; but as he was ambitious , I slew him . " In every sentence , however long or involved , there 64 Elements of Rhetoric .
... a foolish son is a heaviness to his mother ; " thirdly , the causative , as , " As he was valiant , I honor him ; but as he was ambitious , I slew him . " In every sentence , however long or involved , there 64 Elements of Rhetoric .
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... honor . He kisses the beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . " -MACAULAY . " I do not live that I may eat ; but I eat that I may live . " 5. For this reason it is admirably adapted for the portrayal of character : " The Puritan was ...
... honor . He kisses the beautiful deceiver before he destroys her . " -MACAULAY . " I do not live that I may eat ; but I eat that I may live . " 5. For this reason it is admirably adapted for the portrayal of character : " The Puritan was ...
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... honors thick upon him ; The third day , comes a frost , a killing frost ; And - when he thinks , good easy man , full ... honor . " - CHATHAM . “ He has this day surprised the thousands who hung with rapture on his accents , by such an ...
... honors thick upon him ; The third day , comes a frost , a killing frost ; And - when he thinks , good easy man , full ... honor . " - CHATHAM . “ He has this day surprised the thousands who hung with rapture on his accents , by such an ...
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... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair , To dwell a weeping hermit there . " - COLLINS . This is common in prose also , as , " France goes to war for an idea ...
... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray , To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair , To dwell a weeping hermit there . " - COLLINS . This is common in prose also , as , " France goes to war for an idea ...
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... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray . " “ The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave . " " Talking age . " In this form of synecdoche there is usually some degree of personification . The use of ...
... Honor comes , a pilgrim gray . " “ The boast of heraldry , the pomp of power , And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave . " " Talking age . " In this form of synecdoche there is usually some degree of personification . The use of ...
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Æneid alliteration allusion ancient Anglo-Saxon antithesis argument arises associated Asyndeton beauty Burke Burke's called Carlyle character chief chiefly Cicero clauses common comparison composition considered Demosthenes East India Bill effect elegance emotion emphasis English English language EPANODOS epithets euphony example exhibit expression fault feeling feet figures of speech following passage force frequent genius give Greek heaven honor human hypermeter idea illustrated importance Jean Peltier kind king language Latin lines literature Lord lyric poetry means metaphor metre Milton mind modern narrative nature never object onomatopoeia orator oratory passion periphrasis perspicuity poem poet poetry polysyndeton present proposition prose Quincey Quintilian reader refers repetition rhetoric ridiculous says scene secondly seen sentence sentiment Shakespeare similar sometimes soul sound speaker statement style subject-matter sublime taste thee things thou thought tion trochee truth vivacity Warren Hastings words writer
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Seite 111 - 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.
Seite 399 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Seite 222 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 189 - tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely, 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?
Seite 164 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!
Seite 117 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Seite 163 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 385 - 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.
Seite 199 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Seite 107 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...