A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing. With an Historical Dissertation on English StyleJohn R. Priestley, 1837 - 292 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vi
... improvements upon his last ( the fifth ) edition ; and at the request of the publisher , adapted his illustrations to the use of the English student . It is humbly suggested that it might form a highly useful exercise to require of the ...
... improvements upon his last ( the fifth ) edition ; and at the request of the publisher , adapted his illustrations to the use of the English student . It is humbly suggested that it might form a highly useful exercise to require of the ...
الصفحة xi
... improvement of their taste . They visit the most celebrated galleries , and seek for models of excellence in their art ; and these they make the objects of close , long - continued , and patient study . They inquire what there is to ...
... improvement of their taste . They visit the most celebrated galleries , and seek for models of excellence in their art ; and these they make the objects of close , long - continued , and patient study . They inquire what there is to ...
الصفحة xii
... improvement of the imagination . And this , not because this faculty of the mind is useless , or because it admits not of being strengthened and improved by exercise . The impression is , x ii INTRODUCTION .
... improvement of the imagination . And this , not because this faculty of the mind is useless , or because it admits not of being strengthened and improved by exercise . The impression is , x ii INTRODUCTION .
الصفحة xiii
... improved by exercise . The impression is , that there is no method which can be adopted for the attainment of this end . Now I would ask , if , by the course here recommended , the imagination will not be called into exercise , and ...
... improved by exercise . The impression is , that there is no method which can be adopted for the attainment of this end . Now I would ask , if , by the course here recommended , the imagination will not be called into exercise , and ...
الصفحة xviii
... improvement . Besides , it not unfrequently happens , that the efforts of the student have taken some wrong direction . He has some erroneous impressions as to the nature of style , or as to the manner in which a good style may be ...
... improvement . Besides , it not unfrequently happens , that the efforts of the student have taken some wrong direction . He has some erroneous impressions as to the nature of style , or as to the manner in which a good style may be ...
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acquired admired Æneid allusions amplification applied argument attained called cause caution Cicero circumstances clauses common comparison composition connected connexion direct the attention distinct duction effect emotions of beauty emotions of taste English language epithets Eurystheus example excite emotions exercise exhibit expression familiar favourable feelings fitted to excite frequently give given happy Hence illustration imagination implies importance improvement inferred inquiry instances intellectual habits ject judgment kind knowledge labour language literary taste manner of writing meaning ment mentioned metaphor metonymy mind models of excellence nature nexion Numidia objects and scenes opinions ornaments of style passage period perspicuity philosophical philosophy of language phrases present principles productions pronoun proposition racter readers reason refer remarks resemblance Rhetoric rules sense sentence skill speak student sublimity symbolical arts synecdoche tence things thou thoughts tion traits vivacity words writer Zeuxis