The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davies, 1801 - English language |
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... is never rightly introduced , unless when it is emphatical .. But the idiom of most modern tongues , English and French particularly , will 1 Of perspicuity . seldom admit such ellipsis * . A 4 Chap . VI . RHETORIC .
... is never rightly introduced , unless when it is emphatical .. But the idiom of most modern tongues , English and French particularly , will 1 Of perspicuity . seldom admit such ellipsis * . A 4 Chap . VI . RHETORIC .
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... English , my father and mother ; because the possessive pronoun having no distinction of gen- der , and so having but one form , is alike applicable to both the case being different with them renders it necessary to follow a dif- ferent ...
... English , my father and mother ; because the possessive pronoun having no distinction of gen- der , and so having but one form , is alike applicable to both the case being different with them renders it necessary to follow a dif- ferent ...
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... English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the oblique cases , to omit them in the nominative , as in the passage last quoted , almost always gives a maimed appearance to the expression . " I perceived " it had been scowered with half an ...
... English idiom , be sometimes omitted in the oblique cases , to omit them in the nominative , as in the passage last quoted , almost always gives a maimed appearance to the expression . " I perceived " it had been scowered with half an ...
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... English tongue : " 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 66 not like to be much improved by those ...
... English tongue : " 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 66 not like to be much improved by those ...
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... English , one is never at a loss to discover whether the reference be to per- sons or to things . In French and Italian the expression is often ambiguous in this respect also . In a French devotional book . I Of perspicuity . But there ...
... English , one is never at a loss to discover whether the reference be to per- sons or to things . In French and Italian the expression is often ambiguous in this respect also . In a French devotional book . I Of perspicuity . But there ...
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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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Page 313 - Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Page 207 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Page 218 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 341 - They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Page 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.