The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution; Intended as a Familiar Companion for All that Care to Speak and Write Correctly |
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... avoided . Yet there is an exceedingly delicate rhetorical use of it , in which the speaker , about to mention something that should cause fear or sorrow to the person he addresses , attributes the fear to himself , as when a father says ...
... avoided . Yet there is an exceedingly delicate rhetorical use of it , in which the speaker , about to mention something that should cause fear or sorrow to the person he addresses , attributes the fear to himself , as when a father says ...
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... avoid it . Along the lines . - When this expression was first used , it was a fairly good figure . But it has been used so much and so indiscriminately , and with some has come so near being a mannerism , that it would better be avoided ...
... avoid it . Along the lines . - When this expression was first used , it was a fairly good figure . But it has been used so much and so indiscriminately , and with some has come so near being a mannerism , that it would better be avoided ...
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... avoided when possible ) , but he has done it much better by a bold anastrophe . The Book of Common Prayer presents , in the Litany , several examples of anastrophe , all alike . And . This is perhaps the simplest word in our language ...
... avoided when possible ) , but he has done it much better by a bold anastrophe . The Book of Common Prayer presents , in the Litany , several examples of anastrophe , all alike . And . This is perhaps the simplest word in our language ...
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... avoided . If one thinks of it at all , it sounds unpleasant . If the speaker or writer who uses it did in reality beg leave , he would be bound to pause there and , before proceeding , re- ceive the permission he begs for . Instead of ...
... avoided . If one thinks of it at all , it sounds unpleasant . If the speaker or writer who uses it did in reality beg leave , he would be bound to pause there and , before proceeding , re- ceive the permission he begs for . Instead of ...
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... avoided . Unnecessary use of un- usual words is an affectation , and technical terms should appear only in technical discourse . To ex- press the ideas with exactness is the purpose that must precede all others . After that come the con ...
... avoided . Unnecessary use of un- usual words is an affectation , and technical terms should appear only in technical discourse . To ex- press the ideas with exactness is the purpose that must precede all others . After that come the con ...
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Page 139 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 126 - 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 147 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 215 - Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Page 133 - The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 138 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 190 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 218 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine...
Page 96 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Page 324 - They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced ; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.