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Like idle . morning visitors , ' says Coleridge , ' the brisk and breathless periods hurry in and hurry off in quick and profitless succession ; each indeed for the moment of its stay prevents the pain of vacancy , while it indulges the ...
Like idle . morning visitors , ' says Coleridge , ' the brisk and breathless periods hurry in and hurry off in quick and profitless succession ; each indeed for the moment of its stay prevents the pain of vacancy , while it indulges the ...
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It is the closeness of connection between conclusion and commencement that gives rise to the name period , which signifies circuit . Thus the opening sentence of Paradise Lost , if stopped at ' Heavenly Muse , ' would be periodic ...
It is the closeness of connection between conclusion and commencement that gives rise to the name period , which signifies circuit . Thus the opening sentence of Paradise Lost , if stopped at ' Heavenly Muse , ' would be periodic ...
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The period is nevertheless more susceptible of vivacity and force ; the loose sentence is apt , as it were , to languish and grow tiresome . The first is more adapted to the style of the writer ; the second , to that of the speaker .
The period is nevertheless more susceptible of vivacity and force ; the loose sentence is apt , as it were , to languish and grow tiresome . The first is more adapted to the style of the writer ; the second , to that of the speaker .
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For an objectionable example of the period , objectionable because including a tiresome number of preliminary parts , the reader is referred to the preceding passage from Mr. Choate . The following are examples of the intermediate sort ...
For an objectionable example of the period , objectionable because including a tiresome number of preliminary parts , the reader is referred to the preceding passage from Mr. Choate . The following are examples of the intermediate sort ...
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... Byron's Childe Harold ( first canto ) , and Thomson's Castle of Indolence . Where fiction , too , attempts to represent an earlier period , imitation of the dialect of that period is often an effectual means ...
... Byron's Childe Harold ( first canto ) , and Thomson's Castle of Indolence . Where fiction , too , attempts to represent an earlier period , imitation of the dialect of that period is often an effectual means ...
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Page 46 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 142 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
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 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 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 ?
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 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 245 - Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?
Page 96 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Page 244 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
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| Title | Complete Rhetoric |
| Author | Alfred Hix Welsh |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | S. C. Griggs, 1885 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Apr 2007 |
| Length | 346 pages |
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