An Abridgment of Lectures on RhetoricJ. Metcalf, Printer, 1823 - 306 sider |
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Side 52
... syllables seems to have been invented previously to an alphabet of let- ters . Such a one is said to be retained at this day in Ethiopia and some countries of India . But at best it must have been imperfect and ineffectual ; since the ...
... syllables seems to have been invented previously to an alphabet of let- ters . Such a one is said to be retained at this day in Ethiopia and some countries of India . But at best it must have been imperfect and ineffectual ; since the ...
Side 59
... syllable of the verb , expresses the greatest number of important circumstances with- out the help of auxiliary verbs . In the oriental tongues verbs have few tenses ; but their modes are so contrived , as to express a great variety of ...
... syllable of the verb , expresses the greatest number of important circumstances with- out the help of auxiliary verbs . In the oriental tongues verbs have few tenses ; but their modes are so contrived , as to express a great variety of ...
Side 63
... syllables especially , the letters has the sound of z , which is one of the sounds on which the ear rests with pleasure ; as in has , these , loves , hears , & c . It must however be admitted , that smoothness is not the distinguishing ...
... syllables especially , the letters has the sound of z , which is one of the sounds on which the ear rests with pleasure ; as in has , these , loves , hears , & c . It must however be admitted , that smoothness is not the distinguishing ...
Side 81
... syllables , but of an intermixture of them ; such as , delight , amuse , velocity , celerity , beautiful , impetuosity . If the words , however , which com- pose a sentence , be ever so well chosen and har- monious ; yet , if they be ...
... syllables , but of an intermixture of them ; such as , delight , amuse , velocity , celerity , beautiful , impetuosity . If the words , however , which com- pose a sentence , be ever so well chosen and har- monious ; yet , if they be ...
Side 83
... syllable , or the last but one , to be a long syllable . Words which consist chiefly of short syllables , as contra- ry , particular , retrospect , seldom terminate a sen- tence harmoniously , unless a previous run of long syllables ...
... syllable , or the last but one , to be a long syllable . Words which consist chiefly of short syllables , as contra- ry , particular , retrospect , seldom terminate a sen- tence harmoniously , unless a previous run of long syllables ...
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Side 272 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Side 201 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.
Side 27 - Their dread commander ; he above the rest, In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than arch-angel ruin'd, and th...
Side 24 - Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Side 214 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Side 24 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Side 101 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Side 21 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense...
Side 98 - 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.
Side 125 - It is this sense which furnishes the imagination with its ideas; so that by the pleasures of the imagination or fancy (which I shall use promiscuously) I here mean such as arise from visible objects, either when we have them actually in our view or when we call up their ideas into our minds by paintings, statues, descriptions, or any the like occasion.