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 ... |
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... Circumstances in the Middle of a Sentence In the proper Disposition of the relative Pronouns , who , which , what , whose 92 92 Unity . 94 Strength 96 Redundant Words , redundant Members , new Ideas , new Thoughts The Copulative ...
... Circumstances in the Middle of a Sentence In the proper Disposition of the relative Pronouns , who , which , what , whose 92 92 Unity . 94 Strength 96 Redundant Words , redundant Members , new Ideas , new Thoughts The Copulative ...
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... Circumstances 166 Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of Discussion is destitute of Dignity 167 CHAPTER V. - Allegory 168 Allegory , ornamental 169 Allegories communicate Instruction 169 Allegory of a moral ...
... Circumstances 166 Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of Discussion is destitute of Dignity 167 CHAPTER V. - Allegory 168 Allegory , ornamental 169 Allegories communicate Instruction 169 Allegory of a moral ...
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... Circumstances The Faults opposite to the Sublime , are chiefly two ; first , the Frigid ; and , secondly , the Bombast CHAPTER VI . - Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste Colour , the simplest Instance of Beauty Figure opens to us ...
... Circumstances The Faults opposite to the Sublime , are chiefly two ; first , the Frigid ; and , secondly , the Bombast CHAPTER VI . - Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste Colour , the simplest Instance of Beauty Figure opens to us ...
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... circumstances , which rouse and alarm : the ac- count of a battle is as rapid as the wounds of a warrior , and the deaths he inflicts ! 20. Magnanimity and delicacy characterize strongly the poetry of rude nations , who , in the use of ...
... circumstances , which rouse and alarm : the ac- count of a battle is as rapid as the wounds of a warrior , and the deaths he inflicts ! 20. Magnanimity and delicacy characterize strongly the poetry of rude nations , who , in the use of ...
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... circumstances are the variations of the ter- minations , and are called CASES . Illus . 1. This peculiarity of substantives , or nouns , is a necessary provision for expressing the circumstances attending them , and has been ...
... circumstances are the variations of the ter- minations , and are called CASES . Illus . 1. This peculiarity of substantives , or nouns , is a necessary provision for expressing the circumstances attending them , and has been ...
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action adjectives adverbs Æneid agent agreeable Analysis ancient appear arrangement attention beauty called Catiline characters chiefly Cicero circumstances common comparison composition Corol criticism degree Demosthenes denote dignity discourse distinct distinguish effect elegance employed English epic epic poetry Example expression figure former frequently genius give Greek guage hath hearers Hence ideas Iliad Illus imagination instance ject Julius Cæsar kind language latter Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning melody merit metaphors mind nature never nouns objects observe orator ornament Ossian Paradise Lost passion person perspicuity pleasure poem poet poetical poetry polished languages possess prepositions principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiment signify simplicity sometimes sound speak speaker species speech Spondee style sublime substantives syllables taste tense things thou thought tion trochees verb verse Virgil virtue words writing
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.