A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style, Inferred from Examples of Writing, to which is Added a Historical Dissertation on English StyleIvison, Phinney, Blakeman & Company, 1834 - 298 страници |
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addressed admiration adverbs allusions Antithe applied argument atheism attained attempts attention called cause caution clauses common comparison composition connected connexion convey deliberative assemblies direct distinct effect elegant emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language English style epithets example excite emotions exercise exhibit familiar faults favorable feelings fitted to excite following passage frequent give given happy heaven Hence idiomatic illustration imagination implies infer influence inkhorn term instances introduced kind knowledge labor language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature noun Numidia objects and scenes ornaments of style period personification perspicuity phrases Pleonasm preposition present principles productions pronoun proposition readers reason refer relative pronoun remarks resemblance rhetoric Roger Ascham rules sense sentence shew skill speak student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thought tion traits vivacity words writer Zoroaster
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Страница 109 - 10 in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy. No one can read this passage without a consciousness, that the personification gives a unity and distinctness to his conception of the nature and offices of law ; and this
Страница 74 - might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way
Страница 289 - as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the lou,d sighings •f an eastern wind, and his motion made inegular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till
Страница 289 - well-known passage in which he speaks of anger as a hinderance to prayer. " Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, arid the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled
Страница 75 - parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark blue and purple of their rocky sides. A sloop was loitering in the distance, dropping slowly down with the tide, her sail hanging uselessly against the mast; and as the reflection of the sky gleamed along the still water, it seemed
Страница 75 - floated in the sky, without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a line golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung
Страница 257 - not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better. The storm has gone over me; and 1 lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me I am stripped of all my honors; I am torn up by the roots, and lie
Страница 147 - ightly constituted." Here the personal pronoun it is the connective. Examples of this kind are frequent, and need no comment. " The air, the earth and the water, teem with delighted existence. In a Spring noon or a Summer's evening, on whichever side w
Страница 291 - by plurality of voices, under one will; which is as much as to lay, to appoint one man, or assembly of men, to bear their person; and every one to own and acknowledge himself to be author of whatsoever he that so beareth their person shall act, or cause to be acted, in those things which concern the common peace and
Страница 242 - its beauty and bravery; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself; while apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth 01