Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons on the Origin, History, and Peculiarities of the English Language ...D. Appleton, 1857 - 451 páginas |
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... IMAGINATION , FIGURES , STYLE AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES , CRITICISM , AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION ; ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . ADAPTED TO SELF - INSTRUCTION , AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ...
... IMAGINATION , FIGURES , STYLE AND ITS ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES , CRITICISM , AND THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF PROSE AND POETICAL COMPOSITION ; ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIOUS EXERCISES . ADAPTED TO SELF - INSTRUCTION , AND THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND ...
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... Imagination , XXXVIII . Sources of the Pleasures of the Imagination . - The Novel - The Won- derful . - The Picturesque , XXXIX . The Sublime , 163 169 178 178 183 188 • 194 XL . The Sublime in Writing , 201 · XLI . The Sublime in ...
... Imagination , XXXVIII . Sources of the Pleasures of the Imagination . - The Novel - The Won- derful . - The Picturesque , XXXIX . The Sublime , 163 169 178 178 183 188 • 194 XL . The Sublime in Writing , 201 · XLI . The Sublime in ...
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... imagination , and conveying the facts of every - day life . 2. NORMAN FRENCH . - From the time of the Conquest till the days of Chaucer , a period of three hundred years , this element played an important part in the formation of our ...
... imagination , and conveying the facts of every - day life . 2. NORMAN FRENCH . - From the time of the Conquest till the days of Chaucer , a period of three hundred years , this element played an important part in the formation of our ...
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... imaginations by the ballads and legends of chivalry who from youth had trained themselves to manage the barb , and bear alike through summer's heat and winter's cold the weight of arms and who passing into an effeminate and distracted ...
... imaginations by the ballads and legends of chivalry who from youth had trained themselves to manage the barb , and bear alike through summer's heat and winter's cold the weight of arms and who passing into an effeminate and distracted ...
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... imagination , and the heart ; and familiarize us with the most refined feelings that ennoble our race . Beauty , harmony , grandeur , and ele- gance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify the fancy , or move the affections , —belong ...
... imagination , and the heart ; and familiarize us with the most refined feelings that ennoble our race . Beauty , harmony , grandeur , and ele- gance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify the fancy , or move the affections , —belong ...
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acatalectic adjectives adjuncts adverb Æneid anapestic ancient applied beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse Cæsar called character Cicero classes clauses comma commence composed composition conjunction connection consists constitute correct criticism degree denote derived division effect emotion employed English English language epic poetry exclamation-point EXERCISE expression faculty fault figures following sentences genius Give examples Greek humor iambic pentameter ideas Illustrate imagination introduced kind language LESSON letters literature means mind moral nature nouns objects observed omitted origin ornaments parenthetical passage passions period person Petrarch pleasure poet poetry present principles produced pronoun proper proposition punctuation Quintilian reader reason regard relating Repeat Rule respect restrictive clause rhetoric rhyme Roman Saxon semicolon sense signify sometimes sound style sublime syllables Taste tence term thee things thou thought tion transitive verbs truth variety verb verse virtue words writer
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Página 195 - Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 234 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Página 270 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 252 - By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, By strangers honoured and by strangers mourned...
Página 210 - Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Página 224 - Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how. Not distant far from thence a murmuring sound Of waters issued from a cave, and spread Into a liquid plain, then stood unmoved, Pure as the expanse of heaven ; I thither went With unexperienced thought, and laid me down On the green bank, to look into the clear Smooth lake, that to me seemed another sky...
Página 259 - I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain, That longs to launch into a nobler strain.
Página 306 - He, who still wanting, though he lives on theft, Steals much, spends little, yet has nothing left: And He, who now to sense, now nonsense leaning...
Página 253 - Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 101 - The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.