A System of RhetoricA. S. Barnes & Company, 1884 - 673 Seiten |
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... once defeated . Satan came also , last of all . They didn't care for him . He shall go . After inversion , the usual order of subject and predicate seems awkward ; as , No contemptible orator he was.- BLAIR . EXERCISE III ...
... once defeated . Satan came also , last of all . They didn't care for him . He shall go . After inversion , the usual order of subject and predicate seems awkward ; as , No contemptible orator he was.- BLAIR . EXERCISE III ...
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... once themes is to be by my once self ; " and " joy at this house's now despair . " Such things as these are too dreadful to criticise . -H . B. FIRMAN . We seem to remember remarking that David Davis wouldn't look badly in the chair ...
... once themes is to be by my once self ; " and " joy at this house's now despair . " Such things as these are too dreadful to criticise . -H . B. FIRMAN . We seem to remember remarking that David Davis wouldn't look badly in the chair ...
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... once an exact , precise , mathematical , truth - telling people . It will apply to everything but politics ; there , truth being of no account , the system is use- less . But in literature , how admirable ! Take an example : As a 19 ...
... once an exact , precise , mathematical , truth - telling people . It will apply to everything but politics ; there , truth being of no account , the system is use- less . But in literature , how admirable ! Take an example : As a 19 ...
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... once the author of " First Principles " had met his match . The boy replied , " But I didn't say there was ; I didn't say what a lot of awful crows , but what an awful lot of crows ! " Sound , for the boy . - Harper's Weekly . EXERCISE ...
... once the author of " First Principles " had met his match . The boy replied , " But I didn't say there was ; I didn't say what a lot of awful crows , but what an awful lot of crows ! " Sound , for the boy . - Harper's Weekly . EXERCISE ...
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... once the de- fects and the beauties of the human portrait . How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay , whose foundation is in the dust . EXERCISE XXIII . - Complete the following sentences by finding four appropriate ...
... once the de- fects and the beauties of the human portrait . How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay , whose foundation is in the dust . EXERCISE XXIII . - Complete the following sentences by finding four appropriate ...
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adjective adverb ambiguity Aristotle asked audience avoid beautiful black crows called Charles Lamb Cicero clause comma compliments conversation Demosthenes discourse distinct English enthymeme EXERCISE expression fact feel following sentences gentleman give habit hear hearers humor idea illustrations kind king lady language laugh laughter less letter listen look Lord madam manner meaning ment mind Miss nature never noun object observe one's opinion orator participle person perspicuity phatic phrase pleasure possessive predicate preposition Preposition Phrases principle pronoun pronounced question Quintilian reader relative clause remark repeated replied Richard Grant White ridiculous rule Saxon genitive sense Smith soft palate sometimes speak speaker speech story style Sydney Smith talk taste tell tence things thought tion told TOPICAL ANALYSIS truth utterance verb voice words write young
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Seite 641 - Then the little Hiawatha Learned of every bird its language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How they built their nests in Summer, Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them, "Hiawatha's Chickens." Of all beasts he learned the language, Learned their names and all their secrets, How the beavers built their lodges, Where the squirrels hid their acorns, How the reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so timid, Talked with them whene'er he...
Seite 109 - ... retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
Seite 248 - The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature which song is the best?
Seite 248 - And what is so rare as a day in June ? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays: Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might, An instinct within it that reaches and towers, And groping blindly above it for light, Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers.
Seite 596 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Seite 475 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Seite 39 - As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, And saith, Am not I in sport?
Seite 641 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 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...
Seite 383 - I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries.
Seite 274 - The only voice which you can hear Is the river murmuring near. When soft! — the dusky trees between And down the path through the open green Where is no living thing to be seen; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...