Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 pages |
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... essay , desultory , atonement , ' impress , and others innumerable , borrowed from sensible things and appropriated to spiritual nature . Figures ( metaphors ) , then , far from being the product of an advanced culture , are , as we ...
... essay , desultory , atonement , ' impress , and others innumerable , borrowed from sensible things and appropriated to spiritual nature . Figures ( metaphors ) , then , far from being the product of an advanced culture , are , as we ...
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... Essay on Cromwell , is of unusual length , yet unity is preserved throughout : What can be more extraordinary than that a person of mean birth , no fortune , no eminent qualities of body , which have some- times or of mind , which have ...
... Essay on Cromwell , is of unusual length , yet unity is preserved throughout : What can be more extraordinary than that a person of mean birth , no fortune , no eminent qualities of body , which have some- times or of mind , which have ...
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... essays are marvellously rich , often discussed arrangement in his correspondence with literary friends . ( 3 ) That we are not sure of understanding ourselves per- fectly , unless we have done what we can to make ourselves readily ...
... essays are marvellously rich , often discussed arrangement in his correspondence with literary friends . ( 3 ) That we are not sure of understanding ourselves per- fectly , unless we have done what we can to make ourselves readily ...
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... commerce , and beauty , and science , which has in later centuries made that lovely isle the richest gem of all the tropic seas . - Ibid . 1 Essays Esthetical . 50. The fire which glows in Macaulay's history , the 92 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
... commerce , and beauty , and science , which has in later centuries made that lovely isle the richest gem of all the tropic seas . - Ibid . 1 Essays Esthetical . 50. The fire which glows in Macaulay's history , the 92 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
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... essay , like that of the sentence , implies the presence of one govern- ing image , around which facts group themselves in pro- gressive transition , according to their relative value and pertinence . From the previous consideration of ...
... essay , like that of the sentence , implies the presence of one govern- ing image , around which facts group themselves in pro- gressive transition , according to their relative value and pertinence . From the previous consideration of ...
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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...