The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 pages |
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... term is always understood more than building merely for accommodation , are to be considered as of a mixed nature , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ...
... term is always understood more than building merely for accommodation , are to be considered as of a mixed nature , wherein utility and beauty have almost equal influence . The elegant arts , as well as the useful , are founded in ...
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... term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear afterwards , ) it requires the aid of the ...
... term . For , in the first place , that it ought to be ranked among the polite or fine arts , is manifest from this , that in all its exertions , with little or no exception , ( as will appear afterwards , ) it requires the aid of the ...
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... term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Per- spicuity here results entirely from propriety and simplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is regularly , step by step , conducted forwards in the same ...
... term may be allowed , consists in perspicuity . Per- spicuity here results entirely from propriety and simplicity of diction , and from accuracy of method , where the mind is regularly , step by step , conducted forwards in the same ...
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... term in our language , I shall hence- forth denominate the vehement . There is , besides , an intermediate kind of passions , which do not so congenially and directly either re- strain us from acting , or incite us to act ; but , by the ...
... term in our language , I shall hence- forth denominate the vehement . There is , besides , an intermediate kind of passions , which do not so congenially and directly either re- strain us from acting , or incite us to act ; but , by the ...
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... term wit , in English writings , hath been sometimes used with equal latitude . But this is certainly a perversion of the word from its ordinary sense , through an excessive deference to the manner and idiom of our ingenious neighbours ...
... term wit , in English writings , hath been sometimes used with equal latitude . But this is certainly a perversion of the word from its ordinary sense , through an excessive deference to the manner and idiom of our ingenious neighbours ...
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Page 341 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
Page 341 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Page 284 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Page 27 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
Page 37 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 183 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
Page 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.
Page 377 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.