Theories of Style: With Especial Reference to Prose Composition; Essays, Excerpts, and TranslationsLane Cooper Macmillan, 1907 - 460 من الصفحات |
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Æschylus Aristotle arrangement artist Athenian Athens audience beauty better Buffon called character Cicero clauses color Compare composition criticism Demosthenes diction effect emotion English Prose enthymemes essay Euripides expression fact faculty feelings force French French language genius give Greek hand harmony hearers Hence Herodotus Hyperides ideas illustration imitation instance intellect intelligible Isocrates Johannes von Müller labor language less literary literature Lysias manner matter means metaphor mind mode Molière nature never Nireus object observe orator passage passion peculiar perfect Pericles Phædr phrase Plato poet poetical poetry present principle produced proper Quintilian reader reason rhetoric rhythm rule sense sentence simile simple Sophocles soul speak speaker speech sublimity success suppose syllable theory of style Theuth things thought tion treatise true truth uttered verse Voltaire Wackernagel whole words writer
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الصفحة 337 - The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
الصفحة 257 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
الصفحة 433 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me. You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery; you...
الصفحة 40 - ... souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
الصفحة 373 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
الصفحة 286 - Fitz-James alone wore cap and plume. To him each lady's look was lent ; On him each courtier's eye was bent ; Midst furs, and silks, and jewels sheen, He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King XXVII. As wreath of snow, on mountain-breast. Slides from the rock that gave it rest, Poor Ellen glided from her stay, And at the Monarch's feet she lay ; No word her choking voice commands She show'd the ring, she clasp'd her hands.
الصفحة 268 - A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part; and only that part which remains can be used for realizing the thought conveyed.
الصفحة 195 - To drawen folk to hevene by fairnesse, By good ensample, this was his bisynesse: But it were any persone obstinat, What so he were, of heigh or lough estat, Hym wolde he snybben sharply for the nonys.
الصفحة 288 - How much is conveyed in a few words by the help of the Metaphor, and how vivid the effect consequently produced, may be abundantly exemplified. From " A Life Drama " may be quoted the phrase, " I speared him with a jest," as a fine instance among the many which that poem contains. A passage in the
الصفحة 266 - Sterne's intended implication that a knowledge of the principles of reasoning neither makes, nor is essential to, a good reasoner, is doubtless true. Thus, too, is it with grammar. As Dr. Latham, condemning the usual school-drill in Lindley Murray, rightly remarks : — " Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented ; but the proper prevention is to be got from habit — not rules.