A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English StyleJohn R. Priestley, 1837 - 292 страници |
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... give utterance to bright and ingenious thoughts and beautiful language , in a way that sends their hearers into profound slumber ! This little book has been read by us with much attention . Without offending parliament - men or the ...
... give utterance to bright and ingenious thoughts and beautiful language , in a way that sends their hearers into profound slumber ! This little book has been read by us with much attention . Without offending parliament - men or the ...
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... give some idea of the estimation in which the work is held . " For a clear and interesting explanation of the Ele- ments of Taste , and of its three most essential qualities , refinement , delicacy , and correctness , I would refer you ...
... give some idea of the estimation in which the work is held . " For a clear and interesting explanation of the Ele- ments of Taste , and of its three most essential qualities , refinement , delicacy , and correctness , I would refer you ...
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... give just ideas of the peculiar merits of different authors ; it also happily illustrates the proper use of rhetorical figures . The chapter on Style is an interesting exposition of the qualities of a good style , and the modes of ...
... give just ideas of the peculiar merits of different authors ; it also happily illustrates the proper use of rhetorical figures . The chapter on Style is an interesting exposition of the qualities of a good style , and the modes of ...
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... give me an exact definition of these faculties and intellectual operations , but he has learned what is meant by the proposed terms ; and when I have occasion to use them afterwards , I have no fear of not being understood . No one will ...
... give me an exact definition of these faculties and intellectual operations , but he has learned what is meant by the proposed terms ; and when I have occasion to use them afterwards , I have no fear of not being understood . No one will ...
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... give grateful exercise to the imagination and refinement to the taste . And when it discerns excellences of a high order , as if dazzled with what is bright and imposing , it sees not minute and un- important defects . It is indeed ...
... give grateful exercise to the imagination and refinement to the taste . And when it discerns excellences of a high order , as if dazzled with what is bright and imposing , it sees not minute and un- important defects . It is indeed ...
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Страница 32 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Страница 270 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Страница 61 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
Страница 270 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Страница 270 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Страница 234 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
Страница 287 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Страница 225 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
Страница 67 - The mountain-shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
Страница 95 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.