The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Том 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... critics of that nation have refined on their language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to ...
... critics of that nation have refined on their language to excess , and by needless re- petitions have sometimes enervated the expression , their criticisms , when useful in assisting us to shun any obscurity or ambiguity , de- serve to ...
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... critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . * Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. Phil . Fr. 9. Guardian , No. 19 . Sect . I. The obscurity ...
... critics have been so strongly per- suaded of the bad effect of parentheses on perspicuity , as to think they ought to be discarded altogether . * Bolingb . Phil . Fr. 30. Phil . Fr. 9. Guardian , No. 19 . Sect . I. The obscurity ...
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... criticism , but cannot be regarded as a violation of the laws of perspicuity . It is neither with the liar nor with the punster that I am concerned at presènt . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is ...
... criticism , but cannot be regarded as a violation of the laws of perspicuity . It is neither with the liar nor with the punster that I am concerned at presènt . The only species of equivoca- tion that comes under reprehension here , is ...
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... critics call galimatias , and the English comprehend under the general name bombast , and which may not improperly be defined the sublime of nonsense . You have lofty images and high sounding Characteristics , Vol . III . Misc . ii ...
... critics call galimatias , and the English comprehend under the general name bombast , and which may not improperly be defined the sublime of nonsense . You have lofty images and high sounding Characteristics , Vol . III . Misc . ii ...
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... critic has nowhere hinted what sense it is which he denominates this sense , so I believe no reader will be able to conjecture , what the author might have said , and not absurdly said , to the same effect . The misfortune is , that ...
... critic has nowhere hinted what sense it is which he denominates this sense , so I believe no reader will be able to conjecture , what the author might have said , and not absurdly said , to the same effect . The misfortune is , that ...
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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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Стр. 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.
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Стр. 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Стр. 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.