The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 Seiten |
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... effect upon the hearers , will serve considerably both to improve their taste , and to enrich the fancy . By the former effect we learn to amend and avoid faults in composing and speaking , against which , the best natural , but ...
... effect upon the hearers , will serve considerably both to improve their taste , and to enrich the fancy . By the former effect we learn to amend and avoid faults in composing and speaking , against which , the best natural , but ...
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... effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer . The word elo- quence in its greatest latitude denotes , " That art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end . " * All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ...
... effect which the speaker intends to produce in the hearer . The word elo- quence in its greatest latitude denotes , " That art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end . " * All the ends of speaking are reducible to four ...
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... effect the passions ; the passions are the natural spurs to volition or action , and so need only to be rightly directed . This connexion and dependency will better appear from the following observations . When a speaker addresses ...
... effect the passions ; the passions are the natural spurs to volition or action , and so need only to be rightly directed . This connexion and dependency will better appear from the following observations . When a speaker addresses ...
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... effect of the dramatic , at least of tragedy , being upon the passions , the drama falls under another species , to be explained afterwards . But that kind of address of which I am now treating , attains the summit of perfection in the ...
... effect of the dramatic , at least of tragedy , being upon the passions , the drama falls under another species , to be explained afterwards . But that kind of address of which I am now treating , attains the summit of perfection in the ...
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... effect which the words above quoted , and some other things advanced in relation to the same personage , had upon the audience , as we learn from Quintilian , was quite extraordinary . They extorted from them such demonstrations of ...
... effect which the words above quoted , and some other things advanced in relation to the same personage , had upon the audience , as we learn from Quintilian , was quite extraordinary . They extorted from them such demonstrations of ...
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admit adverb affirmed ambiguity anapest antonomasia appear application argument ascer beauty catachresis circumstances clause common commonly composition conjunctions connexion connexive consequence considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example expression former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language Latin latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator Paradise Lost particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity phrases pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition preterit principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian racter reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule rience sense sensible sentence sentiments serve signified solecism sometimes sophism sort sound speak speaker species Spect spondee style syllables syllogism Tatler tence term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Seite 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Seite 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Seite 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Seite 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Seite 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Seite 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Seite 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Seite 309 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.