Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin and Powers: With a Variety of Rules to Escape Errors and Blemishes, and Attain Propriety and Elegance in CompositionJ. and W. Oliver, 1767 - 478 pàgines |
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Pàgina 45
... strong turn towards wit , may not leave a good Metaphor till they have fhewn it in fo many lights , as to make it quite irksome and insipid . We may in a rhetorical , as well as in a moral fenfe , fay with HORACE , There There is a mean ...
... strong turn towards wit , may not leave a good Metaphor till they have fhewn it in fo many lights , as to make it quite irksome and insipid . We may in a rhetorical , as well as in a moral fenfe , fay with HORACE , There There is a mean ...
Pàgina 61
... strong in " the LORD , and in the power of his might . Put ss on the whole armour of GoD , that ye may be " able to ftand against the wiles of the Devil . " For we wrestle not against flesh and blood , but against principalities ...
... strong in " the LORD , and in the power of his might . Put ss on the whole armour of GoD , that ye may be " able to ftand against the wiles of the Devil . " For we wrestle not against flesh and blood , but against principalities ...
Pàgina 75
... strong man . Or he is a Job , that is , a remarkably patient man . Or he is a Nero , that is , a monftrously cruel man . Or he is a Croefus , that is , an immensely rich man . ( 2 ) An Antonomafia puts a common for a pro- per name ...
... strong man . Or he is a Job , that is , a remarkably patient man . Or he is a Nero , that is , a monftrously cruel man . Or he is a Croefus , that is , an immensely rich man . ( 2 ) An Antonomafia puts a common for a pro- per name ...
Pàgina 87
... strong Me- taphor † . Thus we call a very virtuous charac- ter an angel , and a very vicious one , a fiend or devil : we fay a drunkard is a fwine , and an ex- tortioner a wolf or harpy . CICERO furnishes us with an Hyperbole of this ...
... strong Me- taphor † . Thus we call a very virtuous charac- ter an angel , and a very vicious one , a fiend or devil : we fay a drunkard is a fwine , and an ex- tortioner a wolf or harpy . CICERO furnishes us with an Hyperbole of this ...
Pàgina 89
... tantum fperat Hyper- bola , quantum audet ; fed incredibilia affirmat , ut ad credi- bilià perveniat . SENEC . de Beneficiis , lib . vii . § 23 . a flame from a strong internal fire , it breaks THE HYPERBOLE CONSIDERED . 89.
... tantum fperat Hyper- bola , quantum audet ; fed incredibilia affirmat , ut ad credi- bilià perveniat . SENEC . de Beneficiis , lib . vii . § 23 . a flame from a strong internal fire , it breaks THE HYPERBOLE CONSIDERED . 89.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 391 - For the Lord's portion is his people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Pàgina 225 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Pàgina 335 - Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth : While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Pàgina 237 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Pàgina 342 - And it came to pass, that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Pàgina 276 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Pàgina 347 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be like the most High.
Pàgina 392 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Pàgina 47 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Pàgina 287 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.