The Art of English CompositionScribner, Armstrong, 1875 - 356 páginas |
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accordingly action æsthetic analytic proofs applied arguments Aristotle attri attributes of quality beauty body cause CHAPTER character Cicero clear common composition condition constitute degree Demosthenes denominated determined discourse distinct distinguished division effect elements elocution embodied energy English language euphony example excitation exemplifications exercise exhibited expression of thought faculty fault favorable feeling founded furnish grammatical harmony hearer Hence ical imagery infer intelligence invention Italian language judgment kind language Latin languages logical melody ment mental metonymy mind addressed motives narration narrative nature necessary object observed orator oratory particular partition peculiar perfect peroration persuasion pitch poetry presented principle processes of explanation proof proper properties of style proposition propriety Quintilian reason regarded relations represented requires respect Rhetoric rhythm selection sensible sentence sounds speaker speaking species spect speech successive Synecdoche taste tence term theme thing tion trope truth unity whole words writers
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Página 320 - But, look, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
Página 243 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Página 232 - I shall detain you now no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education ; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming-.
Página 228 - ... a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Página 238 - The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Página 318 - ... and said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb...
Página 320 - I will not leave you long ; For in your shades I deem some spirit dwells, Who from the chiding stream, or groaning oak, Still hears and answers to Matilda's moan.
Página 232 - ... calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please — only that he may try the matter by dint of argument, for his opponents then to skulk, to...
Página 243 - 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...
Página 257 - ... papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again. She was a very beautiful woman, of a noble spirit, and there was a dignity in her grief amidst all the wildness of her transport, which, methought, struck me with an instinct of sorrow, which, before I was sensible of what it was to grieve, seized my very soul, and has made pity the weakness of my heart ever since.