A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English StyleJohn R. Priestley, 1837 - 292페이지 |
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... ENGLISH GRAMMAR ; Part I. , containing the Principles of Analysis , or English Parsing . BY R. G. PARKER , A.M. Author of " Progressive Exercises in English Composition , " & c . BY THE SAME AUTHOR , PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN ENGLISH ...
... ENGLISH GRAMMAR ; Part I. , containing the Principles of Analysis , or English Parsing . BY R. G. PARKER , A.M. Author of " Progressive Exercises in English Composition , " & c . BY THE SAME AUTHOR , PROGRESSIVE EXERCISES IN ENGLISH ...
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... ENGLISH STYLE . BY SAMUEL P. NEWMAN , Professor of Rhetoric , and Lecturer on Political Economy in Bowdoin College , U.S. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN R. PRIESTLEY , 47 , HIGH HOLBORN . 1837 . THE little work entitled " A Practical System ...
... ENGLISH STYLE . BY SAMUEL P. NEWMAN , Professor of Rhetoric , and Lecturer on Political Economy in Bowdoin College , U.S. LONDON : PUBLISHED BY JOHN R. PRIESTLEY , 47 , HIGH HOLBORN . 1837 . THE little work entitled " A Practical System ...
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... English student . It is humbly suggested that it might form a highly useful exercise to require of the pupil a written analysis of those parts of the book in which the analytical method is adopted , particularly of what is said on the ...
... English student . It is humbly suggested that it might form a highly useful exercise to require of the pupil a written analysis of those parts of the book in which the analytical method is adopted , particularly of what is said on the ...
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... Style EXERCISES PAGE . 141 142 147 161 163 167 167 171 173 175 177 180 181 184 184 186 188 194 196 199 200 201 209 HISTORICAL DISSERTATION ON ENGLISH STYLE 249 INTRODUCTION . THE advantages proposed to be attained by the viii CONTENTS .
... Style EXERCISES PAGE . 141 142 147 161 163 167 167 171 173 175 177 180 181 184 184 186 188 194 196 199 200 201 209 HISTORICAL DISSERTATION ON ENGLISH STYLE 249 INTRODUCTION . THE advantages proposed to be attained by the viii CONTENTS .
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Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English Style Samuel Phillips Newman. I have stated as a ... English writers , which may exhibit similar ornaments of style , and in the examination of which , there is ...
Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English Style Samuel Phillips Newman. I have stated as a ... English writers , which may exhibit similar ornaments of style , and in the examination of which , there is ...
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addressed admired Æneid allusions amplification applied argument attained attempts called cause caution Cicero circumstances clauses common comparison composition connected connexion direct the attention discourse distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language epithets examination excite emotions exercise exhibit expression familiar favourable feelings fitted to excite frequently give given happy heaven Hence illustration imagination implied importance improvement inferred influence instances intellectual habits introduced jects judgment kind knowledge labour language literary taste literature look manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind nature nexion objects and scenes opinions ornaments of style passage period personification perspicuity philosophical phrases poetry present principles productions pronoun proposition racter readers reason refer regarded remarks resemblance Rhetoric rules sense sentence skill speak striking student sublimity synecdoche tence things thou thoughts tion traits tural vivacity Washington Irving words writer
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32 페이지 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
270 페이지 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
61 페이지 - To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
270 페이지 - ... a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
270 페이지 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
234 페이지 - The graces taught in the schools, the costly ornaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then, words have lost their power, rhetoric is vain, and all elaborate oratory contemptible.
287 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
225 페이지 - The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...
67 페이지 - The mountain-shadows on her breast Were neither broken nor at rest ; In bright uncertainty they lie, Like future joys to Fancy's eye.
95 페이지 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.