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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... living , feeling , intelligent , adoring man , bearing the image of his Maker ; having the impress of divinity . Their monuments are the everlasting hills which they have clothed with verdure - their praises , are sounds of health and ...
... living , feeling , intelligent , adoring man , bearing the image of his Maker ; having the impress of divinity . Their monuments are the everlasting hills which they have clothed with verdure - their praises , are sounds of health and ...
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... living , or the standard of the taste of the age . Had this picture existed through successive ages , and been uniformly admired , this would give it higher authority , and the artist , in conforming his work to it 38 SYSTEM OF RHETORIC .
... living , or the standard of the taste of the age . Had this picture existed through successive ages , and been uniformly admired , this would give it higher authority , and the artist , in conforming his work to it 38 SYSTEM OF RHETORIC .
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... living fire . " " Phœbus bade farewell to every leaf and flower . " The aid derived from the figurative use of words in pointing out minute differences in the appearance of ob- jects , may be learned from the following expressions which ...
... living fire . " " Phœbus bade farewell to every leaf and flower . " The aid derived from the figurative use of words in pointing out minute differences in the appearance of ob- jects , may be learned from the following expressions which ...
الصفحة 92
... living and acting , or having the properties of a living being , such attempts , if authorized by the subject and occasion , are approved by literary taste . This is called PERSONIFICATION . There are different ways in which the ...
... living and acting , or having the properties of a living being , such attempts , if authorized by the subject and occasion , are approved by literary taste . This is called PERSONIFICATION . There are different ways in which the ...
الصفحة 94
... living agents . The writer calls upon them as beings that can hear and act . Examples will now be given , in which inanimate objects and objects of thought are described as acting and pos- sessing the qualities of living beings . These ...
... living agents . The writer calls upon them as beings that can hear and act . Examples will now be given , in which inanimate objects and objects of thought are described as acting and pos- sessing the qualities of living beings . These ...
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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