Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 страници |
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... following passage of PLATO was cen- fured by the Critics : " Is it not eafy to conceive , " fays PLATO , that a city fhould be tempered " like a cup ? - The inflaming God of Wine is “ infused into the cup , and rages in it , but he " is ...
... following passage of PLATO was cen- fured by the Critics : " Is it not eafy to conceive , " fays PLATO , that a city fhould be tempered " like a cup ? - The inflaming God of Wine is “ infused into the cup , and rages in it , but he " is ...
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... following passage from the Spectator . " An image , fays the ingenious Writer , taken from what acts upon the sight , cannot " without D + Spectator , N ° 595 . 1 46 CC 86 66 " without violence be applied THE METAPHOR CONSIDERED . 33.
... following passage from the Spectator . " An image , fays the ingenious Writer , taken from what acts upon the sight , cannot " without D + Spectator , N ° 595 . 1 46 CC 86 66 " without violence be applied THE METAPHOR CONSIDERED . 33.
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... sentence ! 66 66 Nay , not CICERO himself is exempted , with all his incomparable talents , from incoherence of Me- taphor . What think we of fuch a passage as the following ? " For as when I walk in the fun , though I walk for another ...
... sentence ! 66 66 Nay , not CICERO himself is exempted , with all his incomparable talents , from incoherence of Me- taphor . What think we of fuch a passage as the following ? " For as when I walk in the fun , though I walk for another ...
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... passage from the fame cele- brated Writer : " O noble stock ! " meaning the family of the SCIPIOS ; " and as scions ... following uniform and delightful Metaphors in his practi- cal improvement of Acts viii . 4. " Therefore they " that ...
... passage from the fame cele- brated Writer : " O noble stock ! " meaning the family of the SCIPIOS ; " and as scions ... following uniform and delightful Metaphors in his practi- cal improvement of Acts viii . 4. " Therefore they " that ...
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... following passage of Archbishop TILLOTSON ! " Transubstantiation , fays he , is like a milftone hung about the " neck of Popery , which will sink it at the last . " And though some of their greatest Wits have " undertaken the defence of ...
... following passage of Archbishop TILLOTSON ! " Transubstantiation , fays he , is like a milftone hung about the " neck of Popery , which will sink it at the last . " And though some of their greatest Wits have " undertaken the defence of ...
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Страница 335 - Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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Страница 342 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
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Страница 392 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Страница 47 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
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