Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side 89
... SERMON . " Youth and health ' are with difficulty made to comprehend how frail a machine the human body is , and how easily impaired by excesses . " Better : " How frail a machine is the human . body . " - HURD . v . 21. It gives force ...
... SERMON . " Youth and health ' are with difficulty made to comprehend how frail a machine the human body is , and how easily impaired by excesses . " Better : " How frail a machine is the human . body . " - HURD . v . 21. It gives force ...
Side 148
... sermons of Dr. Ogden . In one of his discourses against slander- " Censure , " says the preacher , " is in season so very seldom , that it may be compared to that bitter plant , which hardly comes to its maturity in the life of a man ...
... sermons of Dr. Ogden . In one of his discourses against slander- " Censure , " says the preacher , " is in season so very seldom , that it may be compared to that bitter plant , which hardly comes to its maturity in the life of a man ...
Side 150
... sermon , like a good peach , is indeed a composition of rich materials , which the maker has associated to bring it to its proper flavour , but which the eater may re- lish , and from which he may derive nourish- ment without being ...
... sermon , like a good peach , is indeed a composition of rich materials , which the maker has associated to bring it to its proper flavour , but which the eater may re- lish , and from which he may derive nourish- ment without being ...
Side 159
... sermon preached before Queen Ann , when Princess of Denmark . So Shakspeare alludes to a dunghill , in his Henry the Fifth , when describing the death of those who fell in France , fighting bravely in defence of their country . A simi ...
... sermon preached before Queen Ann , when Princess of Denmark . So Shakspeare alludes to a dunghill , in his Henry the Fifth , when describing the death of those who fell in France , fighting bravely in defence of their country . A simi ...
Side 173
... SERMONS . The figure called catachresis , which I hope I need not tell you means an abuse of words , is commonly no more than a violent or over- strained metaphor , as when we say of a person for whom we have little respect , " that he ...
... SERMONS . The figure called catachresis , which I hope I need not tell you means an abuse of words , is commonly no more than a violent or over- strained metaphor , as when we say of a person for whom we have little respect , " that he ...
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3dly 4thly admire afford allegory animated antient appears argument arrangement beautiful Blair book of Job called catachresis Cicero circumstances common comparison composition conclude correct critic DEAR JOHN Demosthenes didactic discourse divine effect elegant eloquence example excellence excited exordium expression fancy figurative language frequently genius Gibbon guage harmony hearers Hudibras humour ideas imagery imagination instance introduced irony Isocrates kind letter Livy Lord manner mean ment metaphors metonymy mind modern narrative nature neral never nosyllable object obscurity observed orations oratory ornament passion pathetic perhaps person Pitt plain pleasure poetry principal prose prosopopoeia reader remark resemblance respect rhetoric ridiculous rules scarcely senate sense sentence sermons Shakspeare short sion Sisera sometimes speak speaker species speech style sublime synecdoche taste tence thing thou thought tion trochee truth tural Turenne verb verse words writer young