The Principles of Rhetoric and Their ApplicationHarper and Brothers, 1878 - 296 Seiten |
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adjective adverb analogy Antecedent Probability Anthony Trollope argument from Antecedent arguments from Sign attention authority called canon cause chap circumstances clause clear colon comma common composition conclusion connected dependent clause discourse E. A. Freeman effect English English Language Essay evidence example expression fact fault favor feeling force George Eliot give grammatical hand Herbert Spencer idea instance J. H. Newman language lect letter Logic Macaulay Martin Chuzzlewit Matthew Arnold meaning ment metaphor Middlemarch mind natural never noun object opinion Orator Paradise Lost paragraph person perspicuity phrase poetry political preferable presumption principle pronoun proof proposition prose prove punctuation purpose question Quintilian reader reason reputation Rhetoric rule scene Scott sect sense sentence Shakspere simile sion sometimes speak speaker speech style tence thing thought tion truth usage verb vulgar Whately whole words writer
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Seite 179 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Seite 130 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Seite 241 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech To stir men's blood.
Seite 29 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 269 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon; you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse ; the loud call to repeated assault ; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Seite 96 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Seite 241 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Seite 209 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Seite 132 - If the flights of Dryden therefore, are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Seite 86 - If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!