The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & bros., 1854 - 435 pages |
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... Less for the more General 2. The most interesting Circumstance distinguished .. 3. Things Sensible for things Intelligible .. 4. Things Animate for things Lifeless Part III . The Use of those Tropes which are obstructive to Vivacity ...
... Less for the more General 2. The most interesting Circumstance distinguished .. 3. Things Sensible for things Intelligible .. 4. Things Animate for things Lifeless Part III . The Use of those Tropes which are obstructive to Vivacity ...
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... less extensive than that here proposed . All those particular arts are examined only on that side wherein there is found a pret- ty considerable coincidence with one another ; namely , as objects of taste , which , by exciting ...
... less extensive than that here proposed . All those particular arts are examined only on that side wherein there is found a pret- ty considerable coincidence with one another ; namely , as objects of taste , which , by exciting ...
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... less will it admit an address to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the opera- tion of the intellectual faculty , must be regarded by every intelligent hearer as foreign at least , if not insidious . It is obvious that ...
... less will it admit an address to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the opera- tion of the intellectual faculty , must be regarded by every intelligent hearer as foreign at least , if not insidious . It is obvious that ...
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... less to un- dergo a strict analysis and scrutiny . They are like those volatile essences which , being too delicate to bear the open air , evaporate almost as soon as they are exposed to it . Ac- cordingly , the wittiest things will ...
... less to un- dergo a strict analysis and scrutiny . They are like those volatile essences which , being too delicate to bear the open air , evaporate almost as soon as they are exposed to it . Ac- cordingly , the wittiest things will ...
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... less than fights . " + I shall only observe farther , that this sort , whose aim is to debase , delights in the most homely expressions , provincial idioms , and cant phrases . The second kind , consisting in the aggrandizement of ...
... less than fights . " + I shall only observe farther , that this sort , whose aim is to debase , delights in the most homely expressions , provincial idioms , and cant phrases . The second kind , consisting in the aggrandizement of ...
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Page 411 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 367 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 396 - Peace to all such ! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 197 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 133 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Page 344 - 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 309 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 353 - That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 247 - To this succeeded that licentiousness which entered with the restoration, and, from infecting our religion and morals, fell to corrupt our language ; which last was not like to be much improved by those who at that time made up the court of king Charles the Second ; either such...
Page 54 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.