Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for Private StudyHarper & brothers, 1869 - 381 Seiten |
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... sometimes , however , not to persuade , but to instruct or to amuse . Quintilian describes Rhetoric as the " science of speaking well ; " a concise and beauti- ful definition , if it be understood also to include writ- ing . Speech is ...
... sometimes , however , not to persuade , but to instruct or to amuse . Quintilian describes Rhetoric as the " science of speaking well ; " a concise and beauti- ful definition , if it be understood also to include writ- ing . Speech is ...
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... sometimes said to be in the " Johnsonian style , " from the character of the productions of Samuel John- son , LL.D. , the author of a " Dictionary of the English Language , " whose vocabulary was extensive , and ef fectively employed ...
... sometimes said to be in the " Johnsonian style , " from the character of the productions of Samuel John- son , LL.D. , the author of a " Dictionary of the English Language , " whose vocabulary was extensive , and ef fectively employed ...
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... sometimes extended so as to embrace words that differ but slightly in meaning . Swiftness and velocity , brotherly and fraternal , yearly and annual , stay and continue , abide and remain , hint and suggest , wave and billow , are ...
... sometimes extended so as to embrace words that differ but slightly in meaning . Swiftness and velocity , brotherly and fraternal , yearly and annual , stay and continue , abide and remain , hint and suggest , wave and billow , are ...
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... sometimes arises from a want of thought , leading the author to repeat over and over again the little mo- dicum of sense or feeling which he is able to com- mand . It then leads to tautology . Sometimes it arises from a parrot - like ...
... sometimes arises from a want of thought , leading the author to repeat over and over again the little mo- dicum of sense or feeling which he is able to com- mand . It then leads to tautology . Sometimes it arises from a parrot - like ...
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... sometimes be more efficient than a short , sharp expression . " He was tremendously alarmed , " is more impressive than a shorter expression would be . When the author wishes a subject to be thought of more than it will be with one ...
... sometimes be more efficient than a short , sharp expression . " He was tremendously alarmed , " is more impressive than a shorter expression would be . When the author wishes a subject to be thought of more than it will be with one ...
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abound Allegory allusions ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language antith antithesis Arachne beautiful become Bible called CHAPTER character Cicero common comparison composition convey cultivated Daniel Webster Demosthenes described effect Elocution eloquent emotion employed English language essay exercise expression fact feeling figure of speech frequently give Greek guage hearer heaven Hyperbole idea illustrate impression instance Invention Irony kind Latin learned literally living long sentences meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern moral narrative nature never number of words object observe orator oratory original PARONOMASIA passion person Personification perspicuity poem poet Poetry practice present productions proverb Quintilian Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetoric Rufus Choate says sense Shakspeare signification sometimes soul sound speak speaker specimens style SYNECDOCHES taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tropes truth uttered variety verse voice Webster writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 203 - Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham ? So am I.
Seite 285 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.
Seite 29 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Seite 318 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Seite 193 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace.
Seite 202 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Seite 290 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Seite 211 - 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 the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Seite 158 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Seite 148 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.