Constructive RhetoricH. Holt, 1896 - 352 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
adjectives Allegory already analogy Anglo-Saxon Antonomasia antonyms argument beginning borrowed called character clear common comparison compounds connection consider course critical deal definite Description devices division effect Emerson English English language essay examples exercise Exposition expression fact familiar feel Figure and Illustration Figures of Speech French give idea important instance kinds of composition knowledge language Latin Layamon Literature look Macaulay matter Matthew Arnold means ment mentioned merely metaphor Metonymy mind mode Narration nature Newman nouns number of words paragraph structure particular thing perhaps periodic sentence practice present principle proposition Qualities of Style question reader reason remark Rhetoric Robert of Brunne sentence structure Silas Marner simile simple Solecisms sometimes sort speaking speech suggestive Synecdoche synonyms thought tion topic treatment uncon usage usually verbs vocabulary Walt Whitman Walter Pater writing
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Page 124 - It has been said that each of these poems has a purpose. Another circumstance must be mentioned which distinguishes these Poems from the popular Poetry of the day; it is this, that the feeling therein developed gives importance to the action and situation, and not the action and situation to the
Page 275 - What is the aboriginal Self, on which a universal reliance may be grounded ? What is the nature and power of that sciencebaffling star, without parallax, without calculable elements, which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
Page 122 - relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your Colonies, and disturbs your government. These are: to change that spirit as inconvenient, by removing the causes; to prosecute it as criminal; or to comply with it as necessary. I would not be guilty of an
Page 308 - His thoughts resemble those celestial fruits and flowers which the Virgin Martyr of Massinger sent down from the gardens of Paradise to the earth, and which were distinguished from the productions of other soils, not only by superior bloom and sweetness, but by miraculous efficacy to invigorate and heal.
Page 138 - To Addison himself we are bound by a sentiment as much like affection as any sentiment can be, which is inspired by one who has been sleeping a hundred and twenty years in Westminster Abbey. We trust, however, that this feeling will not betray us into that abject idolatry,
Page 316 - And the four following facts may be mentioned, as noticeable at this time: " I. That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point,—that whatsoever I happened to call up and trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was
Page 197 - as the writer's aim, consciously or unconsciously, comes to be the transcribing, not of the world, not of mere fact, but of his sense of it, he becomes an artist, his work fine art; and good art (as I hope ultimately to show) in proportion to the truth of his presentment of that sense.
Page 41 - of the middle-aged by its beauty, and rivets the fidelity of the old by its associations. It is a seat of wisdom, a minister of the faith, an Alma Mater of the rising generation. It is this and a great deal more, and demands a somewhat better head and hand than mine to describe it
Page 300 - which the wind clriveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
Page 64 - Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my city is that word from of old, Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb, Rich, hemm'd thick all around with sailships and steamships, an island sixteen miles long, solid founded.