The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - Всего страниц: 396 |
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... illustrate a general ob- servation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to persons ...
... illustrate a general ob- servation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to persons ...
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... illustrate or evince some point purely speculative , may borrow aid from the imagination , and admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking " Dicere secundum virtutem orationis . Scientia bene dicendi . " Quinti ...
... illustrate or evince some point purely speculative , may borrow aid from the imagination , and admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking " Dicere secundum virtutem orationis . Scientia bene dicendi . " Quinti ...
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... illustrate : As Berecynthia , while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky , Surveys around her in the blest abode , An hundred sons , and every son a god : Not with less glory mighty Dulness crown'd , Shall take thro ...
... illustrate : As Berecynthia , while her offspring vie In homage to the mother of the sky , Surveys around her in the blest abode , An hundred sons , and every son a god : Not with less glory mighty Dulness crown'd , Shall take thro ...
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... illustrate all would be impossible . The first I shall exemplify is , where there is an apparent contra- riety in the thing she exhibits as connected . This kind of contrast we have in these lines of Garth , Then Hydrops next appears ...
... illustrate all would be impossible . The first I shall exemplify is , where there is an apparent contra- riety in the thing she exhibits as connected . This kind of contrast we have in these lines of Garth , Then Hydrops next appears ...
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... illustrate by a few similitudes borrowed from the optical science . The latter may be conceived as a plain mirror , which faithfully reflects the object , in colour , size , and posture . Wit , on the contrary , Proteus - like ...
... illustrate by a few similitudes borrowed from the optical science . The latter may be conceived as a plain mirror , which faithfully reflects the object , in colour , size , and posture . Wit , on the contrary , Proteus - like ...
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admit adverb affirmed ambiguity anapest antonomasia appear application argument ascer beauty catachresis circumstances clause common commonly composition conjunctions connexion connexive consequence considered contrary critics degree denominated denote discourse doth Dunciad effect eloquence employed English equal evidence example expression former French frequently give grammatical hath hearers Hudibras ideas idiom imagination impropriety instance justly kind language Latin latter manner meaning metaphor metonymy mind moral nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion orator Paradise Lost particular passage passion perhaps periphrasis person perspicuity phrases pleasure pleonasm poet preceding preposition preterit principles produce pronoun proper properly qualities Quintilian racter reason regard relation remark rendered resemblance respect ridicule rience sense sensible sentence sentiments serve signified solecism sometimes sophism sort sound speak speaker species Spect spondee style syllables syllogism Tatler tence term things thought tion tongue tropes truth verb vivacity wherein words writers
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Стр. 309 - 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.
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