The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volumen2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... answered ... CHAP . IX . May there not be an excess of perspicuity ? BOOK III . The discriminating Properties of Elocution . . ib . 121 130 CHAP . I. Of vivacity as depending on the choice of words 135 SECT . I. Proper terms - SECT . II ...
... answered ... CHAP . IX . May there not be an excess of perspicuity ? BOOK III . The discriminating Properties of Elocution . . ib . 121 130 CHAP . I. Of vivacity as depending on the choice of words 135 SECT . I. Proper terms - SECT . II ...
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... answering their respective ends . That there is a beauty in the perceived fitness of means to their end , and instruments to their use , is uncontrovertible . All that I contend for here is , that this is not the whole of what is ...
... answering their respective ends . That there is a beauty in the perceived fitness of means to their end , and instruments to their use , is uncontrovertible . All that I contend for here is , that this is not the whole of what is ...
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... answers equally well in English , I shall here literally translate it . On the first supposition , " Lisias , speaking of ... answer the end . But , let it be observed , that the introduction of this appropriating term hath an exclusive ...
... answers equally well in English , I shall here literally translate it . On the first supposition , " Lisias , speaking of ... answer the end . But , let it be observed , that the introduction of this appropriating term hath an exclusive ...
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... answer , that in examples of this kind , the cause will , some- times , not always , be discovered , by means of an at- tentive and frequent perusal of the words and con- text . Some meaning , after long poring , will perhaps be traced ...
... answer , that in examples of this kind , the cause will , some- times , not always , be discovered , by means of an at- tentive and frequent perusal of the words and con- text . Some meaning , after long poring , will perhaps be traced ...
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... answer is obvious , Whatever renders a period " sweet and pleasant , makes it also graceful ; a good " ear is the gift of nature , it may be much improv- " ed , but not acquired by art ; whoever is possessed 66 of it , will scarcely ...
... answer is obvious , Whatever renders a period " sweet and pleasant , makes it also graceful ; a good " ear is the gift of nature , it may be much improv- " ed , but not acquired by art ; whoever is possessed 66 of it , will scarcely ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap CHIG choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence 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 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 Rhetorical tropes RSITY Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences SITY sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence things thought tion tongue translation UNIV verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
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Página 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Página 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Página 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Página 379 - 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 291 - 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.
Página 312 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Página 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Página 200 - 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.