A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and Speaking are Detected and the True Sources of Elegant Pronunciation are Pointed Out : With a Complete Analysis of the Voice, Showing Its Specific Modification, and how They May be Applied to Different Figures of Rhetoric, to which are Added Outline of Composition, Or Plain Rules for Writing Orations and Speaking Them in PublicS. Hamilton, 1801 - 392 pages |
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... Milo . This turn of the voice is marked in this manner ( v ) . But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus , Africanus , and ourselves , with Clodius ; all our other calamities were tole- reble , but no one can patiently bear the death of ...
... Milo . This turn of the voice is marked in this manner ( v ) . But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus , Africanus , and ourselves , with Clodius ; all our other calamities were tole- reble , but no one can patiently bear the death of ...
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... Milo : Were the situation of things to be expressed in painting in- stead of words , you might then distinguish the traitor from the undesigning person : as the one was sitting in his chariot , wrapped up in his cloak , and his wife by ...
... Milo : Were the situation of things to be expressed in painting in- stead of words , you might then distinguish the traitor from the undesigning person : as the one was sitting in his chariot , wrapped up in his cloak , and his wife by ...
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... Milo : But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus Africanus , and our- selves , with Clodius ; all our other calamities were tolerable , but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius , In pronouncing the first of these passages , we ...
... Milo : But it is foolish in us to compare Drusus Africanus , and our- selves , with Clodius ; all our other calamities were tolerable , but no one can patiently bear the death of Clodius , In pronouncing the first of these passages , we ...
Page 196
... Milo , he says , - Nor did he commit himself only to the people , but also to the senate ; not to the senate only , but likewise to the public forces ; nor to these only , but also to his power with whom the senate had intrusted the ...
... Milo , he says , - Nor did he commit himself only to the people , but also to the senate ; not to the senate only , but likewise to the public forces ; nor to these only , but also to his power with whom the senate had intrusted the ...
Page 207
... Milo : Can you be ignorant , among the conversation of this city , what laws if they are to be called laws , and not rather the firebrands of Rome and the plagues of the commonwealth- this Clodius designed to fasten and fix upon us ...
... Milo : Can you be ignorant , among the conversation of this city , what laws if they are to be called laws , and not rather the firebrands of Rome and the plagues of the commonwealth- this Clodius designed to fasten and fix upon us ...
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Page 233 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience ; — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 33 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams...
Page 228 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 177 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god : Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end ; Why doing, suffering, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Page 234 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 229 - Th' inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling, begins the sacred rites of Pride. Unnumber'd treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear ; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 162 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 179 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 171 - And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Page 209 - Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of Chaos.