The Principles of Rhetoric and Their ApplicationHarper & brothers, 1891 - 307 Seiten |
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adjective adverb analogy Antecedent Probability Anthony Trollope argument from Antecedent arguments from Sign attention 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 Landor 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 258 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand, and my heart, to this vote.
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 241 - 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: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Seite 179 - Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day?
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 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!
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 112 - There is, first, the Literature of Knowledge; and, secondly, the Literature of Power. The function of the first is — to teach; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder; the second, an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Seite 150 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain : loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; such is noise of the battle.