The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... clause , to suit the idiom of our tongue . The sense would have appeared immediately , had he said , " Never let the " man , who may justly be styled the glory of our na- " tion " THE instances now given will suffice to specify the ...
... clause , to suit the idiom of our tongue . The sense would have appeared immediately , had he said , " Never let the " man , who may justly be styled the glory of our na- " tion " THE instances now given will suffice to specify the ...
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... clause with the following verb . This confusion is removed at once , by repeat- ing the adverb when , thus : “ I have hopes that when 3 Will ' confronts him , and when all the ladies cast " kind looks . " The subsequent sentence is li ...
... clause with the following verb . This confusion is removed at once , by repeat- ing the adverb when , thus : “ I have hopes that when 3 Will ' confronts him , and when all the ladies cast " kind looks . " The subsequent sentence is li ...
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... clause in the beginning or the end . SECT . II .... The double Meaning . Ir was observed , that perspicuity might be violat- ed , not only by obscurity , but also by double mean- ing . The fault in this case is not that the sentence ...
... clause in the beginning or the end . SECT . II .... The double Meaning . Ir was observed , that perspicuity might be violat- ed , not only by obscurity , but also by double mean- ing . The fault in this case is not that the sentence ...
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... clause , " who is born of woman , " in the first example , and " which with contentment is great gain " in the second , point to certain properties in the antecedents , but do find this pious admonition : - " Conservez vous dans l'amour ...
... clause , " who is born of woman , " in the first example , and " which with contentment is great gain " in the second , point to certain properties in the antecedents , but do find this pious admonition : - " Conservez vous dans l'amour ...
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... clause , " which are signs of com 66 plex ideas , " were merely explicative , and that the subject words were to be understood in the utmost la- titude . This could not be the writer's sense , as it would be absurd to affirm of all ...
... clause , " which are signs of com 66 plex ideas , " were merely explicative , and that the subject words were to be understood in the utmost la- titude . This could not be the writer's sense , as it would be absurd to affirm of all ...
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adjectives adverb ambiguity anapest antithesis antonomasia appear arrangement better catachresis cause Chap choice of words clauses Complex sentences composition conducive to vivacity conjunctions connectives employed connexive consequence considered as sounds contrary 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 necessary 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 Sect sense sensible sentiment serve signify signs Simple sentences sometimes speak speaker species Spect spondee style substantive syllables synecdoché Tatler tautology tence ther things thought tion tive tongue translation verb vivacity as depending wherein writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 205 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Seite 202 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Seite 222 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Seite 151 - 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.
Seite 312 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Seite 317 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease; Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne...
Seite 383 - 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.
Seite 295 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.