Rhetoric and the Study of LiteratureHenry Holt, 1913 - 410 páginas |
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... truth viscount rhythm student truths waft roily stupid tune wary route suave tutor yacht ruse swallow usually zoölogy 2 Since poor spelling is frequently due to faulty pro- nunciation , make a spelling test of the words found in ...
... truth viscount rhythm student truths waft roily stupid tune wary route suave tutor yacht ruse swallow usually zoölogy 2 Since poor spelling is frequently due to faulty pro- nunciation , make a spelling test of the words found in ...
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... truths of Nature and of the laws of her opera- tions ; one who , no stunted ascetic , is full of life and fire , but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will , the servant of a tender conscience ; who has learned to ...
... truths of Nature and of the laws of her opera- tions ; one who , no stunted ascetic , is full of life and fire , but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will , the servant of a tender conscience ; who has learned to ...
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... truth ; namely , that forcefulness depends not alone on wise choice of subject matter and on vigor and richness of character but on skill in the use of language , or ability to " put things " effectively . In some , this ability seems ...
... truth ; namely , that forcefulness depends not alone on wise choice of subject matter and on vigor and richness of character but on skill in the use of language , or ability to " put things " effectively . In some , this ability seems ...
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... truths , digressions , saying practically the same thing over and over , going round and round about instead of taking an obviously shorter route , going on and on though the end of the narrative has been reached , employing ten feeble ...
... truths , digressions , saying practically the same thing over and over , going round and round about instead of taking an obviously shorter route , going on and on though the end of the narrative has been reached , employing ten feeble ...
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... passages in the history of man can be supported by such an overwhelming mass of direct and indirect evidence as that which testifies to the truth of the fragment of the history of the globe which I hope to enable you to FORCE 53.
... passages in the history of man can be supported by such an overwhelming mass of direct and indirect evidence as that which testifies to the truth of the fragment of the history of the globe which I hope to enable you to FORCE 53.
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Addison Amphibrach anapaest Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Banquo beauty beginning Beowulf better blank verse called canto century CHAPTER character clear climax comedy composition Cynewulf drama effect Elizabethan emotions employed England English essay example Explain expression eyes figures force gained George Eliot give iambic iambic pentameter idea imagination incidents interest Johnson Joseph Addison King L'Allegro Lady language Latin lines literary literature lyric Macbeth masterpieces matter means melody metonymy metrical feet Milton mind moral narrative nature novel onomatopoeia paper paragraph passages period phrases picture play pleasure plot poem poet poetry popular purpose Queen reader rhyme romance Samuel Johnson scene sentence Shakespeare Silas Marner simile simple skill songs Spectator speech stanza story story-telling suggest syllables tell TENNYSON things thought tion topical tragedy trochee truth verse words writing written
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Página 219 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 233 - While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez, and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedar'd Lebanon.
Página 344 - What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag.
Página 233 - ST. AGNES' EVE— Ah, bitter chill it was ! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold ; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold...
Página 231 - Reaper Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.
Página 212 - In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Página 44 - I conjure you, by that which you profess, Howe'er you come to know it, answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down; Though castles topple on their warders...
Página 215 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells.' How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Página 215 - HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells— What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 41 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!