Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 pages |
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... less and unattractive statement a mere aggregation of rules or interpretation of law . ' In general , ' says Quin- tilian , ' bare treatises on art , through too much affectation of subtlety , break and cut down whatever is noble in elo ...
... less and unattractive statement a mere aggregation of rules or interpretation of law . ' In general , ' says Quin- tilian , ' bare treatises on art , through too much affectation of subtlety , break and cut down whatever is noble in elo ...
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... less attention , and easier to understand , always suits a brisk and brilliant movement ; but , wanting the cement of thought , the connections , the ' hooks - and - eyes of the memory , ' they are not so easily remembered . ' Like idle ...
... less attention , and easier to understand , always suits a brisk and brilliant movement ; but , wanting the cement of thought , the connections , the ' hooks - and - eyes of the memory , ' they are not so easily remembered . ' Like idle ...
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... less crushing than those of the bloody and hateful past . — Greeley . Periodic- ' Fallen , fallen , is that great city Babylon . ' ' Since nature is the art of God , all things are artificial . ' ' We can no more live on our past ...
... less crushing than those of the bloody and hateful past . — Greeley . Periodic- ' Fallen , fallen , is that great city Babylon . ' ' Since nature is the art of God , all things are artificial . ' ' We can no more live on our past ...
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... less , but that I loved Rome more . - Shake- speare . Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation , and detesta- tion the just consequence of hypocrisy . - Johnson . 1 Lord Campbell . Charity creates much of the misery it relieves ...
... less , but that I loved Rome more . - Shake- speare . Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation , and detesta- tion the just consequence of hypocrisy . - Johnson . 1 Lord Campbell . Charity creates much of the misery it relieves ...
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... less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth . - Cicero . The Book of Job , the Psalms , the Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , abound in sentences more or less balanced . A group of sentences containing the development of a ...
... less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth . - Cicero . The Book of Job , the Psalms , the Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , abound in sentences more or less balanced . A group of sentences containing the development of a ...
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Page 238 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 182 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 86 - Gentiles, if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward : how that by revelation He made known unto me the mystery (as I wrote afore in few words, whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ...
Page 243 - 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.
Page 96 - Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue) A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 4 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion.
Page 179 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 97 - Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry
Page 238 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 324 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?