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 : for the Use of Schools, Or Private InstructionA.H. Maltby and Company, 1826 - 306 pages |
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... possesses a singular Advantage in mark- ing Personification 166 A capital Error in Personification , is to deck the Figure with fantastic and trifling Circumstances ib . Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of ...
... possesses a singular Advantage in mark- ing Personification 166 A capital Error in Personification , is to deck the Figure with fantastic and trifling Circumstances ib . Personifications should not be introduced when the Subject of ...
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... PLEAS CHAPTER I. - Taste URES . Taste is possessed in different Degrees by different Men Taste , an improvable Faculty , and refined by Education 192 ib . 193 Exercise is the Source of Improvement in all our Faculties XIV CONTENTS .
... PLEAS CHAPTER I. - Taste URES . Taste is possessed in different Degrees by different Men Taste , an improvable Faculty , and refined by Education 192 ib . 193 Exercise is the Source of Improvement in all our Faculties XIV CONTENTS .
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... possess , and to obtain it , he were to express himself in the order prompted by the immediate feelings of his mind ; the first thing that would excite his attention , and which , consequently , he would first name , is the acorn ...
... possess , and to obtain it , he were to express himself in the order prompted by the immediate feelings of his mind ; the first thing that would excite his attention , and which , consequently , he would first name , is the acorn ...
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... faculty of reason , by science and philosophy ; it is then that the poet has the best chance of possessing the greatest compound quality of the powers of imagina ~ tion and judgment he can ever attain . Such , 30 Of the Progress of ...
... faculty of reason , by science and philosophy ; it is then that the poet has the best chance of possessing the greatest compound quality of the powers of imagina ~ tion and judgment he can ever attain . Such , 30 Of the Progress of ...
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... possess . It is plainly an im- provement upon spoken language , and therefore must have been posterior to it in order of time . Illus . At first , men thought of nothing more than communicating their thoughts to one another , when ...
... possess . It is plainly an im- provement upon spoken language , and therefore must have been posterior to it in order of time . Illus . At first , men thought of nothing more than communicating their thoughts to one another , when ...
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action Addison adjectives admit adverbs Æneid agent agreeable ambiguity Analysis ancient appear arrangement attention beauty Cæsar character Cicero circumstances common composition connected construction convey copulative Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denotes discourse effect employed English epic epic poetry equivocal Example expression figure former frequent genius give grace grammatical Greek hath hearers Hence ideas Iliad Illus imagination impropriety instance Julius Cæsar kind language latter Lord Bolingbroke manner meaning melody metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscure observe orator ornament particles passion period person perspicuity Pharsalia phrases pleasure poet poetry polished languages precision preposition principles pronouns proper propriety prose qualities Quinctilian reader reason relation resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sentence sentiments signify solecism sometimes sound speak speaker species speech Spondee style sublime substantive syllables taste tence tense things thought tion trochees verb verse Virgil words writing
Popular passages
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 - 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 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 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 them all.
Page 154 - The music of Carryl was, like the ." memory of joys that are past, pleasant and
Page 130 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 132 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; 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.
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 291 - Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Page 161 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.