Practical RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1896 - 477 pages |
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... Epic Poem XXXIX . The Lyric Poem XL . The Dramatic Poem APPENDIX SPECIMEN PROOF SHEETS INDEX 321 346 360 371 384 396 409 418 442 447 457 463 469 473 INTRODUCTION . Rhetoric is the Art of Expressing Thought effectively 8 CONTENTS .
... Epic Poem XXXIX . The Lyric Poem XL . The Dramatic Poem APPENDIX SPECIMEN PROOF SHEETS INDEX 321 346 360 371 384 396 409 418 442 447 457 463 469 473 INTRODUCTION . Rhetoric is the Art of Expressing Thought effectively 8 CONTENTS .
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... dramatic and epic poetry , did not arrive at them by guesswork , but by close observation of Sophocles and Homer . Perceiving that these writers , by confining themselves in each of their respective works to one action complete in ...
... dramatic and epic poetry , did not arrive at them by guesswork , but by close observation of Sophocles and Homer . Perceiving that these writers , by confining themselves in each of their respective works to one action complete in ...
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... dramatic artist may select a single trait ( as Ben Jonson did with his " humours : " read " Every Man in his Humour " ) , and erect upon it a consistent complex character , after the manner of the comparative anatomist , who builds the ...
... dramatic artist may select a single trait ( as Ben Jonson did with his " humours : " read " Every Man in his Humour " ) , and erect upon it a consistent complex character , after the manner of the comparative anatomist , who builds the ...
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... Dramatic Performance may be formally introduced by a Prologue , as in Ben Jonson's " Every Man in His Humour . " The author here condemns the inartistic method of the new romantic school , its defiance of tech- nic , its indifference to ...
... Dramatic Performance may be formally introduced by a Prologue , as in Ben Jonson's " Every Man in His Humour . " The author here condemns the inartistic method of the new romantic school , its defiance of tech- nic , its indifference to ...
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... " of death . " There are , however , dramatic situations in which no words could be spoken , passions at white heat which no language can portray . What human sounds can convey the speechless agony of a 92 LITERARY INVENTION .
... " of death . " There are , however , dramatic situations in which no words could be spoken , passions at white heat which no language can portray . What human sounds can convey the speechless agony of a 92 LITERARY INVENTION .
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acatalectic adapted Æneid æsthetic anapestic argument beauty Ben Jonson BOOKS OF REFERENCE character characterized Cicero color comma composition construction criticism Define described discourse dramatic effect ellipsis emotion Enallage English epic epic poetry essay Explain expression faculty feeling Fiction figures give grammatical Greek harmony Hence Herbert Spencer human hyperbaton idea Iliad Illustrate imagination implies impression invention language Latin LESSON letter literary literature Lorna Doone malaprops Matthew Arnold meaning mental metonymies mind moral narration nature never novel object paragraph perfect person Philosophy pleasure pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present principle Professor prose QUESTIONS Quintilian reader relation rhetorical rhyme Saxon sche selection sense sentence Shakespeare spondee stanza student style sublime SUGGESTED EXERCISES syllables taste theme things thou thought tion Trochaic true truth unity verb verse vulgar words writing
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Page 273 - Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman! A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow'd my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason...
Page 451 - Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace : » Referring to the obsequies for the dead.
Page 449 - What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? ? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Page 426 - But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we, Of many far wiser than we ; And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
Page 305 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 438 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 86 - To make a child now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up in one beard and weed, Past three-score years : or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring-house bring wounds to scars.
Page 423 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 283 - Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in, the beauty of a thousand stars...
Page 434 - Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...