A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence: Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ...A. H. Maltby and Company, 1838 - 306 sider |
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... signify five different things ; and be expressed by five different characters , Hence arises their unwieldy alphabet , or lexicon . This 22 Of the Rise and Progress of Language -Of the Rise and Progress of Language in Manner of uttering ...
... signify five different things ; and be expressed by five different characters , Hence arises their unwieldy alphabet , or lexicon . This 22 Of the Rise and Progress of Language -Of the Rise and Progress of Language in Manner of uttering ...
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... signify their meaning to each other by clear . ness of style . In place of poets , philosophers became the instructors of men and in their reasonings on all different subjects , introduced that plainer and simpler style of composition ...
... signify their meaning to each other by clear . ness of style . In place of poets , philosophers became the instructors of men and in their reasonings on all different subjects , introduced that plainer and simpler style of composition ...
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... signify the names of those objects by written characters . The savage , to intimate that his father had vanquished an enemy , would draw the figure of one man stretched upon the earth , and of another standing over him with a deadly ...
... signify the names of those objects by written characters . The savage , to intimate that his father had vanquished an enemy , would draw the figure of one man stretched upon the earth , and of another standing over him with a deadly ...
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... signify the additional ideas of having formerly seen them , and of having been made acquainted with their nature , or distinction ; and would therefore employ the following phraseology : the tree , the house , the horse , the man ...
... signify the additional ideas of having formerly seen them , and of having been made acquainted with their nature , or distinction ; and would therefore employ the following phraseology : the tree , the house , the horse , the man ...
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... signify them by auxiliary words . 60. The VERB is by far the most complex of the whole class of words which are called attributive . The chief character- istic of the verb is action or energy . The combination of ideas which it is ...
... signify them by auxiliary words . 60. The VERB is by far the most complex of the whole class of words which are called attributive . The chief character- istic of the verb is action or energy . The combination of ideas which it is ...
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Side 120 - 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. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Side 151 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Side 190 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Side 267 - 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 158 - The other shape, If shape it might be called, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Side 267 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Side 81 - Men look with an evil eye upon the good that is in others, and think that their reputation obscures them, and their commendable qualities stand in their light ; and therefore they do what they can to cast a cloud over them, that the bright shining of their virtues may not obscure them.
Side 187 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Side 153 - A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Side 151 - I led her, blushing like the morn : all heaven, And happy constellations, on that hour Shed their selectest influence : the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub, Disporting, till the amorous bird of night Sung spousal, and bid haste the evening star, On his hill-top, to light the bridal lamp.