Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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... period of fifty years . And as to the arts of sculpture and painting , were the great monuments in the former art , those , I mean , inherited from Greece , such as the groups , & c . , scattered through Italian mansions ; the Venus ...
... period of fifty years . And as to the arts of sculpture and painting , were the great monuments in the former art , those , I mean , inherited from Greece , such as the groups , & c . , scattered through Italian mansions ; the Venus ...
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... period , and through- out the palmy state of the Greek republics , we may account for it thus : Rhetoric , in its finest and most absolute bur- nish , may be called an eloquentia umbratica ; that is , it aims at an elaborate form of ...
... period , and through- out the palmy state of the Greek republics , we may account for it thus : Rhetoric , in its finest and most absolute bur- nish , may be called an eloquentia umbratica ; that is , it aims at an elaborate form of ...
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... period which is now long past ; and it is probable , upon various considerations , that such another period will never revolve . The rhetorician's art in its glory and power has silently faded away before the stern tendencies of the age ...
... period which is now long past ; and it is probable , upon various considerations , that such another period will never revolve . The rhetorician's art in its glory and power has silently faded away before the stern tendencies of the age ...
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... period from the latter end of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century ; and , though the English rhetoric was less rigorously true to its own ideal than the Roman , and often modulated into a higher key of impassioned ...
... period from the latter end of the sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century ; and , though the English rhetoric was less rigorously true to its own ideal than the Roman , and often modulated into a higher key of impassioned ...
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... periods of conquests and dynasties ; by cycles of Pharaohs and Ptolemies , An- tiochi and Arsacides ! And these vast successions of time distinguished and figured by the uproars which revolve at their inaugurations ; by the drums and ...
... periods of conquests and dynasties ; by cycles of Pharaohs and Ptolemies , An- tiochi and Arsacides ! And these vast successions of time distinguished and figured by the uproars which revolve at their inaugurations ; by the drums and ...
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...