Advanced Course of Composition and RhetoricD. Appleton, 1879 |
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acatalectic adjectives adjuncts adverb Æneid ancient beautiful Cæsar called Celtic character Cicero classes clauses colon comma commence composition conjunction connection consists correct criticism degree denote derived effect emotion employed Enallage English ENGLISH LANGUAGE exclamation-point EXERCISE expression faculty fault figures following sentences Gaul genius Give an example Give examples grammatical Greek harmony ideas Illustrate imagination interrogation-point introduced invention ject language Latin LESSON letters means mind nature Norman French nouns objects origin ornaments parenthetical passage passions period person Philip of Macedon pleasure poet poetry preposition present principles produced pronoun proper proposition propriety punctuation Quintilian reader regard relating Repeat Rule resemblance respect restrictive clause rhetoric rhyme Roman Saxon semicolon sense signifies similes sometimes sound style sublime syllables Syllepsis Taste tence things thou thought tion tongue transitive verbs truth variety verb verse violated virtue words writer
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Page 195 - he that it is the sound of the trumpet. He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha! and he smelleth the battle afar off." The description of the leviathan is worked up in the same book with fine effect:— " Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook ? or his tongue with
Page 254 - Me miserable 1 which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell, myself am hell,— And in the lowest depth, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 96 - MISCELLANEOUS.—Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook, or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down —When saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee —When saw we thee an hungered, and did not minister unto thee or athirst or a stranger or naked
Page 203 - Alp; Bocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades, of death— A universe of death." Seldom has a supernatural being been represented with such genuine sublimity as in the following fine extract from Ossian, descriptive of Fingal's interview with the spirit of Loda. The ghost is invested with obscurity, might, and terror; the king of
Page 212 - Of glory obscured: as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darkened so, yet shone Above them all the archangel." This passage is justly eulogized by Blair. " Here," he says,
Page 343 - quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates;—the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden. It is not to be inferred, that of this poetical vigor Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every
Page 413 - fuller, and therefore better, than that of the second:— 1. " True wit Is nature to advantage dressed ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." 2. " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be." II. No syllable must rhyme with itself. Hence there is a fault in the following couplet:— § 487. What is the
Page 245 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure,
Page 308 - Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail! Still would her touch the strain prolong, And from the rocks, the woods, the vale, She called on Echo still through all her song; And where her sweetest theme she chose, A soft responsive voice was heard at every close, And Hope, enchanted, smiled, and waved her golden hair!
Page 253 - My heart is turned to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. 15. Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. 16. Cool age advances, venerably wise. 17. Oh! that ye would altogether hold your peace; and it should be your wisdom. 18. Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge ; but he that hateth