A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style, the Elements of Taste and Criticism; with Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence: Illustrated by Appropriate Examples Selected Chiefly from the British Classics |
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... hence be assumed as a principle , that pronunciation , in the earliest languages , though learnt from the uninterrupted use of guttural sounds , was accompanied with more gesticulations than are used when men become refined by ...
... hence be assumed as a principle , that pronunciation , in the earliest languages , though learnt from the uninterrupted use of guttural sounds , was accompanied with more gesticulations than are used when men become refined by ...
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... Hence arises their unwieldy alphabet , or lexicon . This melody , or varying the sound of each word so often , is a proof of nothing , however but of the fine ear of that people . ( Corol . Art . 13. ) 12. When the harsh and dissonant ...
... Hence arises their unwieldy alphabet , or lexicon . This melody , or varying the sound of each word so often , is a proof of nothing , however but of the fine ear of that people . ( Corol . Art . 13. ) 12. When the harsh and dissonant ...
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... hence , the modern languages of Europe , abounding with long and short syllables , are susceptible of rhythm , as well as the Greek and Latin ; and assemblages of these long and short syllables , in what the ancients called feet , are ...
... hence , the modern languages of Europe , abounding with long and short syllables , are susceptible of rhythm , as well as the Greek and Latin ; and assemblages of these long and short syllables , in what the ancients called feet , are ...
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... Hence , the early language of man being entirely made up of words descriptive of sensible objects , it became , of necessity , extreme- ly metaphorical . Every desire or passion , every act or feeling of mind , to which no precise ...
... Hence , the early language of man being entirely made up of words descriptive of sensible objects , it became , of necessity , extreme- ly metaphorical . Every desire or passion , every act or feeling of mind , to which no precise ...
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... hence the first rule of good writing or speak- ing is , to preserve perspicuity , which on no account can be sacrificed to any secondary consideration . Obs . This indispensable law demands , that the arrangement of modern languages ...
... hence the first rule of good writing or speak- ing is , to preserve perspicuity , which on no account can be sacrificed to any secondary consideration . Obs . This indispensable law demands , that the arrangement of modern languages ...
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action Addison admit adverb Æneid agent agreeable allegory Analysis ancient appear arrangement attention beauty Catiline character chiefly Cicero circumstances common comparison composition Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denotes dignity discourse distinct distinguished effect elegance emotion employed English epic epic poetry Example expression figure former frequently genius give grace Greek hath hearers Hence ideas Iliad Illus imagination impression instance ject Julius Cæsar kind language Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning melody merit metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscure observe orator ornament Ossian passion person perspicuity pleasure poem poet poetry polished languages possess principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiments signify simplicity sion sometimes sound speak species speech Spondee style sublime substantive syllables taste tence things thou thought tion Trochaic trochees verb verse Virgil words writing
Popular passages
Page 168 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 172 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Page 275 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Page 291 - 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 184 - And born to write, converse, and live with ease : Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne, View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caus'd himself to rise ; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
Page 132 - 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 172 - 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 156 - Took it in snuff; and still he smil'd and talk'd ; And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Page 207 - 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 165 - 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.