A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modification, and how They May be Applied to Different Figures of Rhetoric, to which are Added Outline of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in Public |
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... circumstances or adjuncts of speci- fication , as Dr. Lowth very properly terms them ; and this sentence , says the learned bishop , ad- mits of no pause between any of its parts , but when a new verb is added to the sentence , as in ...
... circumstances or adjuncts of speci- fication , as Dr. Lowth very properly terms them ; and this sentence , says the learned bishop , ad- mits of no pause between any of its parts , but when a new verb is added to the sentence , as in ...
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... circumstance of what we have formerly seen often raises up a whole scene of imagery , and awakens numberless ideas that before slept in the imagina- tion . Spect . N ° 417 . I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion , but for my ...
... circumstance of what we have formerly seen often raises up a whole scene of imagery , and awakens numberless ideas that before slept in the imagina- tion . Spect . N ° 417 . I do not know whether I am singular in my opinion , but for my ...
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... circumstances of action ; and is like an under - agent of Provi- dence , to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life . Ibid . N ° 225 . Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body : it banishes all ...
... circumstances of action ; and is like an under - agent of Provi- dence , to guide and direct us in the ordinary concerns of life . Ibid . N ° 225 . Cheerfulness bears the same friendly regard to the mind as to the body : it banishes all ...
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... for wit , and gravity for wisdom . Spectator , No 225 . We have a shining instance of the force of contrast in Cicero , where he is showing the un- equal circumstances of Catiline when compared with those of the 110 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
... for wit , and gravity for wisdom . Spectator , No 225 . We have a shining instance of the force of contrast in Cicero , where he is showing the un- equal circumstances of Catiline when compared with those of the 110 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
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... circumstances of Catiline when compared with those of the Roman citizens . But waving all other circumstances , let us balance the real situation of the opposing parties ; from that we can form a true notion how very low our enemies are ...
... circumstances of Catiline when compared with those of the Roman citizens . But waving all other circumstances , let us balance the real situation of the opposing parties ; from that we can form a true notion how very low our enemies are ...
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accent agreeable arguments arises Asyndeton attention beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called cause character Cicero circumflex Clodius common composition consider consonant couplet defendant Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished Elocution emphasis emphatic words endeavour example express falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament particular passage passion perly person phatic Polysyndeton Pompey principal pronounced pronunciation proper propriety prose punctuation question Quintilian quires racter reader reading reason requires Rhetoric riety rising inflexion Roman rule says slide sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice unaccented variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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Page 229 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 29 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 224 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 173 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 230 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 225 - Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 158 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 175 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 167 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Page 205 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.