Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 pages |
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Page 51
... reference to the pagan deity under whose joyful star , Jupiter or Jove , it was of happiest augury to be born : of an ' atlas , ' without reference to the demi - god , Atlas , who upheld the world : of a ' volcano , ' without reference ...
... reference to the pagan deity under whose joyful star , Jupiter or Jove , it was of happiest augury to be born : of an ' atlas , ' without reference to the demi - god , Atlas , who upheld the world : of a ' volcano , ' without reference ...
Page 64
... reference to class , occupation , or abode . Purity is violated : - ( 1 ) By the use of obsolete words words which , once familiar , have ceased to be current in good prose litera- ture or in common conversation . Language changes per ...
... reference to class , occupation , or abode . Purity is violated : - ( 1 ) By the use of obsolete words words which , once familiar , have ceased to be current in good prose litera- ture or in common conversation . Language changes per ...
Page 73
... reference to the speak- er's resolve , the appropriate forms are shall in the first person , will in the second and third ; but when the idea of volition or compulsion is to be conveyed , the first person requires will , the second and ...
... reference to the speak- er's resolve , the appropriate forms are shall in the first person , will in the second and third ; but when the idea of volition or compulsion is to be conveyed , the first person requires will , the second and ...
Page 79
... reference : " They were persons of such moderate intellects , even before they were impaired by their pas- sions , that their irregularities could not furnish sufficient . variety of folly . ' Some of the improprieties here pointed out ...
... reference : " They were persons of such moderate intellects , even before they were impaired by their pas- sions , that their irregularities could not furnish sufficient . variety of folly . ' Some of the improprieties here pointed out ...
Page 88
... reference forms in promoting unity and clearness . A close reasoner and a good writer in gene- ral , ' says Coleridge , ' may be known by his pertinent use of connectives . ' Imagery . Figures of speech should , for the purpose of ...
... reference forms in promoting unity and clearness . A close reasoner and a good writer in gene- ral , ' says Coleridge , ' may be known by his pertinent use of connectives . ' Imagery . Figures of speech should , for the purpose 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...