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... effect is more striking in times when an artificial diction is in vogue . Thus , while Johnson was composing his sonorous pe- riods , Goldsmith was writing those delightful passages where wit , humor , philosophy , and pathos are all ...
... effect is more striking in times when an artificial diction is in vogue . Thus , while Johnson was composing his sonorous pe- riods , Goldsmith was writing those delightful passages where wit , humor , philosophy , and pathos are all ...
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... Effect - consequence . - An effect proceeds from a cause ; a consequence follows something that stands to it simply in the relation of antecedent . Centre - middle . - Centre involves the idea of a circle , middle has a more general ...
... Effect - consequence . - An effect proceeds from a cause ; a consequence follows something that stands to it simply in the relation of antecedent . Centre - middle . - Centre involves the idea of a circle , middle has a more general ...
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... by the imaginary char- acters of the age to which they belong . The old words and the old idioms then appear with good effect . Yet even here these words must be used correctly , and not too extensively 44 Elements of Rhetoric .
... by the imaginary char- acters of the age to which they belong . The old words and the old idioms then appear with good effect . Yet even here these words must be used correctly , and not too extensively 44 Elements of Rhetoric .
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... effect upon the manner of compo- sition that style itself has been classified upon this basis . Where the writing is chiefly characterized by long sentences , it has been called " style periodique , " and also " style soutenu ; " where ...
... effect upon the manner of compo- sition that style itself has been classified upon this basis . Where the writing is chiefly characterized by long sentences , it has been called " style periodique , " and also " style soutenu ; " where ...
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... effect upon the arrangement of words . In all sentences there are emphatic words which in many cases indicate their character sufficiently well by the context . But careful writers are generally desirous of adding to the force of these ...
... effect upon the arrangement of words . In all sentences there are emphatic words which in many cases indicate their character sufficiently well by the context . But careful writers are generally desirous of adding to the force of these ...
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Æneid alliteration allusion ancient Anglo-Saxon antithesis argument arises associated Asyndeton beauty Burke Burke's called Carlyle character chief chiefly Cicero clauses common comparison composition considered Demosthenes East India Bill effect elegance emotion emphasis English English language EPANODOS epithets euphony example exhibit expression fault feeling feet figures of speech following passage force frequent genius give Greek heaven honor human hypermeter idea illustrated importance Jean Peltier kind king language Latin lines literature Lord lyric poetry means metaphor metre Milton mind modern narrative nature never object onomatopoeia orator oratory passion periphrasis perspicuity poem poet poetry polysyndeton present proposition prose Quincey Quintilian reader refers repetition rhetoric ridiculous says scene secondly seen sentence sentiment Shakespeare similar sometimes soul sound speaker statement style subject-matter sublime taste thee things thou thought tion trochee truth vivacity Warren Hastings words writer
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Page 111 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 399 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 222 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 189 - tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely, that it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king; that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly— heaven and earth Must I remember?
Page 164 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, — for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day, at least, that curtain may not rise!
Page 117 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 163 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 385 - Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? Sure something holy lodges in that breast, And with these raptures moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence.
Page 199 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Page 107 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze; Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the 'trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...