The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volumen2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... particular styles . INDEED , if language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered exact counterparts to each other ; if every different thing in nature had a different sym ...
... particular styles . INDEED , if language were capable of absolute per- fection , which it evidently is not ; if words and things could be rendered exact counterparts to each other ; if every different thing in nature had a different sym ...
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... particular impropriety cannot be pointed out . In the three different ways , therefore , just now mentioned , perspicuity may be violated . SECT . I .... The Obscure . PART I .... From Defect . THIS is the first offence against ...
... particular impropriety cannot be pointed out . In the three different ways , therefore , just now mentioned , perspicuity may be violated . SECT . I .... The Obscure . PART I .... From Defect . THIS is the first offence against ...
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... particular term ought to be understood literally or metaphorically . The word handled in the following passage will illustrate what I mean : " Thus much I thought fit to premise , " before I resume the subject , which I have already ...
... particular term ought to be understood literally or metaphorically . The word handled in the following passage will illustrate what I mean : " Thus much I thought fit to premise , " before I resume the subject , which I have already ...
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... particular our tongue has the disadvantage of other languages . The same difficulty , as far as my acquaintance with them reaches , affects them all ; and even some modern tongues in a higher degree than ours . In English , one is never ...
... particular our tongue has the disadvantage of other languages . The same difficulty , as far as my acquaintance with them reaches , affects them all ; and even some modern tongues in a higher degree than ours . In English , one is never ...
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... our notice the more , that it is often to be found even in our best writers . SOMETIMES a particular expression is so situated , * Spectator , No. 53 . Of perspicuity . that it may he construed with more D 3 Chap . VI . 53 RHETORIC .
... our notice the more , that it is often to be found even in our best writers . SOMETIMES a particular expression is so situated , * Spectator , No. 53 . Of perspicuity . that it may he construed with more D 3 Chap . VI . 53 RHETORIC .
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Términos y frases comunes
adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence considered as sounds contrary copulative denominated denote discourse doth effect ellipsis employed in combining English equivocal example exhibit expression figure former French give hath hearer ideas idiom imagine imitation instance justly kind language Latin manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind modern nature necessary nonsense noun object obscurity observed occasion offences against brevity Paradise Lost particle particular passage periphrasis perspicuity phrases pleonasm preceding preposition principles produce pronoun proper terms properly propriety reason relation remark rendered Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence ther things thought tion tive tongue translation verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Página 205 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Página 202 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 222 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Página 151 - 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.
Página 312 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Página 317 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 383 - 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.
Página 295 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Página 68 - 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.
Página 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.