Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Página ix
... brought before us ? But in anything that Milton on this occasion , or on any occasion whatever con- nected with the sacrifice of his Greek , Egyptian , or Syrian projects , either said or did , there is no promise at all , small or ...
... brought before us ? But in anything that Milton on this occasion , or on any occasion whatever con- nected with the sacrifice of his Greek , Egyptian , or Syrian projects , either said or did , there is no promise at all , small or ...
Página xii
... brought his vow to an inglorious solution , to the Horatian solution of Parturiunt Montes , & c . ? Dr. Johnson would apparently have thought it a most appropriate and heroic solution , if Milton had made himself a major in the Lobsters ...
... brought his vow to an inglorious solution , to the Horatian solution of Parturiunt Montes , & c . ? Dr. Johnson would apparently have thought it a most appropriate and heroic solution , if Milton had made himself a major in the Lobsters ...
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... these purposes being loose and popular , brought with them proportionable indulgences ; whereas the syllogism , technically so called , employing a severer enthymeme differs from a syllogism , not in the accident 26 RHETORIC .
... these purposes being loose and popular , brought with them proportionable indulgences ; whereas the syllogism , technically so called , employing a severer enthymeme differs from a syllogism , not in the accident 26 RHETORIC .
Página 37
... brought forward into effect by their contrast to the ordinary course of business . " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare , Since seldom coming , in the long year set , Like stones of worth they thinly placed are , Or captain ...
... brought forward into effect by their contrast to the ordinary course of business . " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare , Since seldom coming , in the long year set , Like stones of worth they thinly placed are , Or captain ...
Página 44
... brought into an exquisite equilibrium , approach- ing , receding - attracting , repelling - blending , separating -chasing and chased , as in a fugue , and again lost in a delightful interfusion , so as to create a middle species of ...
... brought into an exquisite equilibrium , approach- ing , receding - attracting , repelling - blending , separating -chasing and chased , as in a fugue , and again lost in a delightful interfusion , so as to create a middle species of ...
Términos y frases comunes
Alexander Ali Pacha amongst ancient Aristotle Armatoles Athenian Athens called cause century character Christian Cicero circumstances common composition connexion dice diction effect eloquence enemy English enthymeme Epirus Euripides evil fact fancy father favour feeling Fitz-Hum French German Gordon Grecian Greece Greek Greek literature hand Herodotus honour human instance intellectual interest Isocrates Jeremy Taylor Johnson language literature ment merit Milton mind mode modern Morea natural necessity notice object occasion orators Pacha Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Paterculus peculiar Pericles Persia person philosophy poetry poets political popular possible prince prose purpose reader reason remarkable respect revolution rhetoric rhetorician Roman Rome Rudolph Schroll sense sentence separate Seraskier sion Socrates solemn speaking spirit style Suli Suliotes supposed thing thought tion town true truth Turkish Turks vast Wallachia Whately whilst whole word writers Xenophon
Pasajes populares
Página 29 - So am I as the rich, whose blessed key Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure, The which he will not every hour survey, For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure. Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since, seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
Página 49 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Página 48 - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of his kindred and coeval towers...
Página 112 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Página 82 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Página 31 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Página 66 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.
Página 49 - ... and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity,— as long as these endure so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together; the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt.
Página 186 - It makes us blush to add, that even grammar .is so little of a perfect attainment amongst us, that with two or three exceptions, (one being Shakspeare, whom some affect to consider as belonging to a semi-barbarous age,) we have never seen the writer, through a circuit of prodigious reading, who has not sometimes violated the accidence or the syntax of English grammar.
Página 48 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended...