The Philosophy of RhetoricTegg, 1838 - 426 Seiten |
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... sometimes all the three , in various propor- tions , may be found blended in the same person . The arts are frequently divided into the useful , and the polite , fine or elegant ; for these words are , in this applica- tion , used ...
... sometimes all the three , in various propor- tions , may be found blended in the same person . The arts are frequently divided into the useful , and the polite , fine or elegant ; for these words are , in this applica- tion , used ...
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... sometimes the immediate and proposed aim , of the orator . The same medium , language , is made use of ; the same general rules of composition , in narration , descrip- tion , argumentation , are observed ; and the same tropes and ...
... sometimes the immediate and proposed aim , of the orator . The same medium , language , is made use of ; the same general rules of composition , in narration , descrip- tion , argumentation , are observed ; and the same tropes and ...
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... sometimes defined the art of persuasion . But that this definition is defective , appears even from their own writings , since in a consistency with it , their rhetorics could not have comprehended those orations called demon- strative ...
... sometimes defined the art of persuasion . But that this definition is defective , appears even from their own writings , since in a consistency with it , their rhetorics could not have comprehended those orations called demon- strative ...
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... sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger and more vague signification , than has been given them here . Sublimity and vehemence , in particular , are often confounded , the latter being considered as a species of the ...
... sometimes used by rhetoricians and critics in a much larger and more vague signification , than has been given them here . Sublimity and vehemence , in particular , are often confounded , the latter being considered as a species of the ...
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... sometimes enter the pre- cincts of familiar converse . To justify the use of such distinc- tive appellations , it is enough that they refer to those particulars which are predominant in each , though not peculiar to either . SECTION I ...
... sometimes enter the pre- cincts of familiar converse . To justify the use of such distinc- tive appellations , it is enough that they refer to those particulars which are predominant in each , though not peculiar to either . SECTION I ...
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admit adverb affirm antonomasia appear application argument ascer axioms beauty catachresis Chap character Cicero circumstances clause common commonly conjunctions connection connexive consequently considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example exhibit experience expression former French give grammar hath hearers Hudibras humour ideas idiom imagination instance justly kind language lative latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object observed occasion orator participle particular passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity persuade phrases pity pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition present preterite principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule sense sensible sentence sentiments shew signified sion solecism solely sometimes sophism sort speak speaker species Spect style syllables syllogism synecdoche Tatler term things tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
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Seite 362 - 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 386 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Seite 302 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 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 333 - 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 257 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Seite 420 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Seite 335 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare: Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way: O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Seite 327 - 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...
Seite 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Seite 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.