Practical RhetoricAmerican Book Company, 1896 - 477 pages |
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... readers than those who combined unconnected facts , he generalized the important principle , that , in the drama and the epic poem , unity is essential to success . All the rules of the rhetorician have been induced in a similar man ...
... readers than those who combined unconnected facts , he generalized the important principle , that , in the drama and the epic poem , unity is essential to success . All the rules of the rhetorician have been induced in a similar man ...
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... reader overlooks . A love for the standard masterpieces of literature is thus awakened ; and he who has once acquired such a rel- ish is in little danger of ever becoming a burden to himself . A Discipline for the Understanding . -These ...
... reader overlooks . A love for the standard masterpieces of literature is thus awakened ; and he who has once acquired such a rel- ish is in little danger of ever becoming a burden to himself . A Discipline for the Understanding . -These ...
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... reader should assert that the poetry of Scott is without beauty , that it is dull and lifeless , and in no respect superior to the rhymes of some third - rate verse maker of the time ; we should certainly appeal to our standard , the ...
... reader should assert that the poetry of Scott is without beauty , that it is dull and lifeless , and in no respect superior to the rhymes of some third - rate verse maker of the time ; we should certainly appeal to our standard , the ...
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... readers ; but their choice of books is not to be left to chance . A cheap vicious fiction . is everywhere inducing incurable disease in the image- making faculty of our young people , and thus destroying their usefulness as members of a ...
... readers ; but their choice of books is not to be left to chance . A cheap vicious fiction . is everywhere inducing incurable disease in the image- making faculty of our young people , and thus destroying their usefulness as members of a ...
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... readers . The ruggedness of the antique element cannot be sacrificed by the substitution of modern forms and modern orthography , without loss of that mental exhilaration so inseparably associated with the picturesque . He who cannot ...
... readers . The ruggedness of the antique element cannot be sacrificed by the substitution of modern forms and modern orthography , without loss of that mental exhilaration so inseparably associated with the picturesque . He who cannot ...
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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...