The Philosophy of RhetoricHarper & Brothers, 1849 - 455 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة vi
... that though his subject be Eloquence , yet , as the nature of his work is didactical , wherein the understanding only is addressed , the style in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity vi PREFACE .
... that though his subject be Eloquence , yet , as the nature of his work is didactical , wherein the understanding only is addressed , the style in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity vi PREFACE .
الصفحة vii
George Campbell. in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were , therefore , his highest aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbe- coming , but offensive . Nor can anything be farther from ...
George Campbell. in general admits no higher qualities than purity and perspicuity . These were , therefore , his highest aim . The best ornaments out of place are not only unbe- coming , but offensive . Nor can anything be farther from ...
الصفحة 21
... admit so narrow a scrutiny as would be necessary for a perfect knowledge of the several parts . Everything that is an object of taste , sculpture , painting , music , architecture , and gardening , as well as poetry and eloquence , come ...
... admit so narrow a scrutiny as would be necessary for a perfect knowledge of the several parts . Everything that is an object of taste , sculpture , painting , music , architecture , and gardening , as well as poetry and eloquence , come ...
الصفحة 23
... admits only one of these ends as the principal . Nevertheless , in discoursing on a subject , many things may be ... admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking fig- ures , as that called vision or fiction ...
... admits only one of these ends as the principal . Nevertheless , in discoursing on a subject , many things may be ... admit metaphor and comparison , but not the bolder and more striking fig- ures , as that called vision or fiction ...
الصفحة 24
... admit an address to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the opera- tion of the intellectual faculty , must be regarded by every intelligent hearer as foreign at least , if not insidious . It is obvious that either of ...
... admit an address to the passions , which , as it never fails to disturb the opera- tion of the intellectual faculty , must be regarded by every intelligent hearer as foreign at least , if not insidious . It is obvious that either of ...
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الصفحة 48 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
الصفحة 407 - Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
الصفحة 251 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul ; thou must be brought before Caesar : and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
الصفحة 309 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
الصفحة 363 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
الصفحة 334 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
الصفحة 14 - H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk.
الصفحة 379 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
الصفحة 289 - Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences ; whereas by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, may write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, law, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
الصفحة 57 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.