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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... Language and Oratory . WILL Your Grace be pleased to accept , with Your ufual Condefcenfion and Good- nefs , this fmall Tribute , offered through Your Hands , to the Interefts of Learning ? And as You have honoured the Author with Your ...
... Language and Oratory . WILL Your Grace be pleased to accept , with Your ufual Condefcenfion and Good- nefs , this fmall Tribute , offered through Your Hands , to the Interefts of Learning ? And as You have honoured the Author with Your ...
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... Language and Oratory . WILL Your Grace be pleased to accept , with Your ufual Condefcenfion and Good- nefs , this fmall Tribute , offered through Your Hands , to the Interefts of Learning ? And as You have honoured the Author with Your ...
... Language and Oratory . WILL Your Grace be pleased to accept , with Your ufual Condefcenfion and Good- nefs , this fmall Tribute , offered through Your Hands , to the Interefts of Learning ? And as You have honoured the Author with Your ...
Pàgina 8
... language . As all is darkness when the fancy's bad , So without judgment fancy is but mad . Duke of BUCKINGHAM . ARISTOTLE finds fault with EURIPIDES for faying of a mariner , " that he had the empire of the oar , " as a falfe elevation ...
... language . As all is darkness when the fancy's bad , So without judgment fancy is but mad . Duke of BUCKINGHAM . ARISTOTLE finds fault with EURIPIDES for faying of a mariner , " that he had the empire of the oar , " as a falfe elevation ...
Pàgina 9
... language , well deferve our regard : " Such Writers as thefe , fays he , when they fancy themselves infpired , miftake childish folly for divine enthusiafin . " This unnatural tumor , above all other faults in writing , feems most ...
... language , well deferve our regard : " Such Writers as thefe , fays he , when they fancy themselves infpired , miftake childish folly for divine enthusiafin . " This unnatural tumor , above all other faults in writing , feems most ...
Pàgina 10
... language , they hoped for what is good . " How obfervable is it , fetting aside the Ora- « tor's vehemence , that by the mediocrity of the exprefsion , they exerted , that the Trope in at " manner escapes us ? Tropes of this kind I ...
... language , they hoped for what is good . " How obfervable is it , fetting aside the Ora- « tor's vehemence , that by the mediocrity of the exprefsion , they exerted , that the Trope in at " manner escapes us ? Tropes of this kind I ...
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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.