The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 Seiten |
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... Demosthenes was the great obstacle to his designs . To distinguish , separate . - We distinguish what we do not wish to confound with another thing ; we sepa- rate what we wish to remove from it . Objects are distinguished from each ...
... Demosthenes was the great obstacle to his designs . To distinguish , separate . - We distinguish what we do not wish to confound with another thing ; we sepa- rate what we wish to remove from it . Objects are distinguished from each ...
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... Demosthenes ; who , by many degrees , excelled the other ; a least as an orator .--- Swift's Letter to a Young Gentleman . This is as weak a sentence as could possibly be written . But without endeavouring to point out the whole of its ...
... Demosthenes ; who , by many degrees , excelled the other ; a least as an orator .--- Swift's Letter to a Young Gentleman . This is as weak a sentence as could possibly be written . But without endeavouring to point out the whole of its ...
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... Demosthenes , how would it have been offended by the harshness and dissonance of so un Farmonious a sentence ? " * Nothing tends to throw our eloquence at a greater distance from that of the ancients , than this Gothic ar- rangement as ...
... Demosthenes , how would it have been offended by the harshness and dissonance of so un Farmonious a sentence ? " * Nothing tends to throw our eloquence at a greater distance from that of the ancients , than this Gothic ar- rangement as ...
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... his style has deviated from the historical to the dela- matory . He relates the councils as well as the wars of nations with all the vehemence of a Demosthenes and and the rapid eloquence of a Ciceronian Philippic . The 180 THE NERVOUS AND.
... his style has deviated from the historical to the dela- matory . He relates the councils as well as the wars of nations with all the vehemence of a Demosthenes and and the rapid eloquence of a Ciceronian Philippic . The 180 THE NERVOUS AND.
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... Demosthenes his model , instead of Livy or Herodotus , yet surely , what bears any resemblance to the spirit of that noble Athe- nian cannot fail to delight and improve . ' >> These observations seem to be dictated by the spirit of cold ...
... Demosthenes his model , instead of Livy or Herodotus , yet surely , what bears any resemblance to the spirit of that noble Athe- nian cannot fail to delight and improve . ' >> These observations seem to be dictated by the spirit of cold ...
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Addison adverb agreeable allegory ancient appear Aristotle arrangement attention beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse CHAP character Cicero circumstance composition critical degree Demosthenes discourse Dissertation Dryden effect elegance elevation eloquence employed endeavour English English language epistolary Essay expression fancy figurative language figure frequently genius grace Greek harmony harsh hath History Homer honour humour idea imagination imitation instance introduced kind labour language learning letters Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning ment metaphor mind nature never object observations occasion orator ornament passage passion perhaps period person personification perspicuity phrases Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry possessed precision produce proper propriety prose qualities Quintilian racter reader remarkable resemblance Roman Empire seems sense sentence sentiment Sermons shew simile simplicity Sir William Temple sound speak species Spectator strength style taste thing thou thought tion tragedy verb verse Virgil virtue vulgar words writer Xenophon
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Seite 127 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Seite 141 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Seite 294 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Seite 138 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 262 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Seite 298 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Seite 165 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Seite 141 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Seite 163 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Seite 316 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.