The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - Počet stran: 396 |
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... affirmed in regard to painting , sculpture , and music , if we had here as ample a fund of materials for forming a comparison . But let it be observed , that the remarks now made regard only the advancement of the arts themselves ; for ...
... affirmed in regard to painting , sculpture , and music , if we had here as ample a fund of materials for forming a comparison . But let it be observed , that the remarks now made regard only the advancement of the arts themselves ; for ...
Strana 28
... affirmed of English comedy in general , ( for there are some exceptions , ) that , to the discredit of our stage , as well as of the national delicacy and discernment , obscenity is made too often to supply the place of wit , and ...
... affirmed of English comedy in general , ( for there are some exceptions , ) that , to the discredit of our stage , as well as of the national delicacy and discernment , obscenity is made too often to supply the place of wit , and ...
Strana 37
... affirmed ; for it is plain , that this is sug- gested in a way of similitude , to illustrate what he had advanced , and not as a particular instance of the position he had laid down . For we can never suppose that he would have called ...
... affirmed ; for it is plain , that this is sug- gested in a way of similitude , to illustrate what he had advanced , and not as a particular instance of the position he had laid down . For we can never suppose that he would have called ...
Strana 49
... affirmed of them all , at least , as it may of the axioms in mathematics , or the assurances we have from consciousness , that the denial of them implies a manifest contradiction . It is , perhaps , phy- sically possible , that the ...
... affirmed of them all , at least , as it may of the axioms in mathematics , or the assurances we have from consciousness , that the denial of them implies a manifest contradiction . It is , perhaps , phy- sically possible , that the ...
Strana 57
... affirmed , that experience , or the tendency of the mind to as- sociate ideas under the notion of causes , effects , or adjuncts , is never contracted by one example only . This assertion , it may be thought , is contradicted by the ...
... affirmed , that experience , or the tendency of the mind to as- sociate ideas under the notion of causes , effects , or adjuncts , is never contracted by one example only . This assertion , it may be thought , is contradicted by the ...
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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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Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 196 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
Strana 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.
Strana 22 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.