A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style; the Elements of Taste and Criticism; with Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence ...A. H. Maltby, 1820 - 345 páginas |
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... Thing of a foreign Nature with the pa- thetic Part of a Discourse · Never attempt prolonging the Pathetic too much Concerning the Peroration or Conclusion CHAPTER VI . - Historical Writing Historical Composition comprehends Annals ...
... Thing of a foreign Nature with the pa- thetic Part of a Discourse · Never attempt prolonging the Pathetic too much Concerning the Peroration or Conclusion CHAPTER VI . - Historical Writing Historical Composition comprehends Annals ...
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... thing harsh or boisterous , would employ a harsh or boisterous sound in the pronunciation of that name . He could not do otherwise , if he meant to excite in the hearer the idea of that thing which he sought to name . ( See Art . 16 ...
... thing harsh or boisterous , would employ a harsh or boisterous sound in the pronunciation of that name . He could not do otherwise , if he meant to excite in the hearer the idea of that thing which he sought to name . ( See Art . 16 ...
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... thing signified . Taken generally , as we now employ them , words may be considered as symbols , not as imi- tations ; as arbitrary , or instituted , not natural signs of ideas . CHAPTER II . OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE IN THE ...
... thing signified . Taken generally , as we now employ them , words may be considered as symbols , not as imi- tations ; as arbitrary , or instituted , not natural signs of ideas . CHAPTER II . OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE IN THE ...
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... things ; and be expressed by five differ- ent characters . Hence arises their unweildy alphabet , or lexicon . This melody , or varying the sound of each word so often , is a proof of nothing , however , but of the fine ear of that ...
... things ; and be expressed by five differ- ent characters . Hence arises their unweildy alphabet , or lexicon . This melody , or varying the sound of each word so often , is a proof of nothing , however , but of the fine ear of that ...
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... thing but of the fine ear of the people who use it , ( Illus . Art . 11. ) ; other evidence is necessary to shew that it was spoken in what the Italians call recitativo . 2. The puμcs , then , of the Greeks , and the numerus of the ...
... thing but of the fine ear of the people who use it , ( Illus . Art . 11. ) ; other evidence is necessary to shew that it was spoken in what the Italians call recitativo . 2. The puμcs , then , of the Greeks , and the numerus of the ...
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action admit adverbs agent agreeable allegory Amphibrach Analysis ancient appear attention beauty character chiefly Cicero circumstances common comparison composition Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denote discourse distinguished effect elegance emotion employed English epic epic poetry Example expression figure former frequently genius give grace Greek hath hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad Illus imagination imitation impression instance Julius Cæsar kind language Lord Bolingbroke manner meaning melody merit metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscure observe orator ornament Ossian Paradise Lost passion pause period person perspicuity phrases pleasure poem poet poetical poetry precision preposition principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiments signify simplicity sometimes sound speaker speaking species speech Spondee style sublime substantive syllables taste tence things thou thought tion tone trochees verb verse Virgil virtue words writing
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Página 199 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone. 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...
Página 184 - tis slander; Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states. Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Página 175 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Página 162 - The music of Carryl was, like the ." memory of joys that are past, pleasant and
Página 138 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Página 133 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Página 326 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 307 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 119 - 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 307 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...