Rhetoric: A Text-book, Designed for Use in Schools and Colleges, and for Private StudyHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 381 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
abound Allegory allusions ancient Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon language antith antithesis Arachne awaken beautiful become Bible Cæsar called CHAPTER character common comparison composition convey cultivated Daniel Webster Demosthenes described earth effect Elocution eloquent emotion employed English language expression fact fancy feeling figure of speech frequently gathered Greek guage hearer heaven Hyperbole idea idioms illustrate impressive instance invention Irony kind Latin learned literally living long sentences meaning mental metaphor metonymy mind modern moral narrative nature never number of words object orator oratory original PARONOMASIA passion person Personification perspicuity poet poetry present productions Prosopopoeia proverb Quintilian Ralph Waldo Emerson Rhetoric Rufus Choate says sense Shakspeare signification sometimes soul sound speak speaker specimens student style SYNECDOCHES taste tence thee thing thou thought tion tropes truth uttered voice Webster writing written
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Page 19 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 268 - God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee, Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine...
Page 154 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 272 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 139 - ... month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years...
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Page 207 - 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 the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 299 - Rufus; the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty Kings; the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers; the hall where the eloquence of...