The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Svazek 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1801 |
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Strana 5
... by shewing the different ways wherein they may be lost . It is for these reasons that , though per spicuity be more properly a rhetorical than a gramma- Of perspicuity . tical quality , I thought it better A 3 Chap . VT . 5 RHETORIC .
... by shewing the different ways wherein they may be lost . It is for these reasons that , though per spicuity be more properly a rhetorical than a gramma- Of perspicuity . tical quality , I thought it better A 3 Chap . VT . 5 RHETORIC .
Strana 17
... reasons of doubt , which he might have in " this case , would have been reasons of doubt in the " case of other men , who may give more , but cannot A give more evident , signs of thought than their fel- " low - creatures * " This errs ...
... reasons of doubt , which he might have in " this case , would have been reasons of doubt in the " case of other men , who may give more , but cannot A give more evident , signs of thought than their fel- " low - creatures * " This errs ...
Strana 35
... reason to be assigned afterwards , rather to refer to centaurs than to either of the other two , and least of all to Ixion , to which it was intended to refer † . Denham's Progress of Learning . * Let it not be imagined that in this ...
... reason to be assigned afterwards , rather to refer to centaurs than to either of the other two , and least of all to Ixion , to which it was intended to refer † . Denham's Progress of Learning . * Let it not be imagined that in this ...
Strana 44
... reason is , the whole of the second clause beginning with these words , " with half the zeal , " maintains but a subordinate rank in the sentence , as it is introduced in explication of the first , and might be omitted , not indeed with ...
... reason is , the whole of the second clause beginning with these words , " with half the zeal , " maintains but a subordinate rank in the sentence , as it is introduced in explication of the first , and might be omitted , not indeed with ...
Strana 48
... no substantive be ex- pressed , it is not necessary to repeat the preposition . The reason is , that in such cases the adjectives are * Matthew xiii . 52 . Sect . I. 66 t The double meaning .... Part 48 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
... no substantive be ex- pressed , it is not necessary to repeat the preposition . The reason is , that in such cases the adjectives are * Matthew xiii . 52 . Sect . I. 66 t The double meaning .... Part 48 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
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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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Strana 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Strana 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Strana 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Strana 379 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Strana 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.
Strana 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Strana 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Strana 312 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Strana 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Strana 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.