Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples, for the Use of Common Schools and AcademiesHarper & Brothers, 1862 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... distinguished American authors , many of hom will bear an honorable comparison with the best writers of the parent country . SOURCES WHENCE THIS WORK HAS BEEN DRAWN . The author lays no claim , in this work , to an original produc tion ...
... distinguished American authors , many of hom will bear an honorable comparison with the best writers of the parent country . SOURCES WHENCE THIS WORK HAS BEEN DRAWN . The author lays no claim , in this work , to an original produc tion ...
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... distinguished from the brute crea tion ? A. By his powers of reflection and reason , and his great susceptibility of improvement . Q. On what do these mainly depend ? A. On his being farther distinguished by the use of speech or ...
... distinguished from the brute crea tion ? A. By his powers of reflection and reason , and his great susceptibility of improvement . Q. On what do these mainly depend ? A. On his being farther distinguished by the use of speech or ...
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... distinguished honor ; and Coster , Faustus , Schoeffer , and Guttem- berg , have all been named as the inventors . Q. What is the cause of such uncertainty ? A. It probably is , that the inventor in this case , as in many others , has ...
... distinguished honor ; and Coster , Faustus , Schoeffer , and Guttem- berg , have all been named as the inventors . Q. What is the cause of such uncertainty ? A. It probably is , that the inventor in this case , as in many others , has ...
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... A. Archimedes , Newton , Franklin , and Watt , were men of this class , because they were distinguished both for their inventions and discoveries . Q. When is it that an author may be considered 42 [ PART II . GENIUS . Genius.
... A. Archimedes , Newton , Franklin , and Watt , were men of this class , because they were distinguished both for their inventions and discoveries . Q. When is it that an author may be considered 42 [ PART II . GENIUS . Genius.
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... distinguished quality of great excellence , with its not being an imi- tation of any previous production . Q. Are these qualities very common ? A. Far from it ; as it is only once or so in an ag that they make their appearance . Q. Can ...
... distinguished quality of great excellence , with its not being an imi- tation of any previous production . Q. Are these qualities very common ? A. Far from it ; as it is only once or so in an ag that they make their appearance . Q. Can ...
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Стр. 243 - And there was mounting in hot haste; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
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Стр. 254 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Стр. 243 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Стр. 218 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Стр. 80 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Стр. 163 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Стр. 216 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Стр. 242 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Стр. 211 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?