The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2 |
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admit ambiguity answer appear application arrangement attention beginning better called cause choice of words clauses combining common complex composition conjunctions connectives consequence considered contrary critics doth effect employed English equal evident example exhibit expression figure former French frequent give given greater hath ideas imagine imitation instance kind language Latin latter least less manner meaning measure mentioned metaphor mind nature necessary never noun object obscurity observed occasion original particle particular passage perhaps period person perspicuity phrases preceding preposition present principles produce pronoun proper properly reason regard relation remark rendered requires respect Rhetorical Sect sense sentence sentiment serve signify signs simple sometimes sound speak species style things thought tion tongue translation tropes truth understand verb vivacity as depending wherein whole writer
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Pagina 205 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with
Pagina 202 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade...
Pagina 222 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes...
Pagina 151 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Pagina 312 - And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Pagina 317 - Peace to all such! but were there one whose fires True genius kindles, and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent, and each art to please, 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...
Pagina 383 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Pagina 295 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: And thou renewest the face of the earth.
Pagina 68 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Pagina 132 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.