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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Page 72
... expressions in these epistles , that one may observe the force of the Hebrew conjugations . Locke . * See Ward's English Grammar , 4to . There is the greater necessity for attending to this rule 72 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
... expressions in these epistles , that one may observe the force of the Hebrew conjugations . Locke . * See Ward's English Grammar , 4to . There is the greater necessity for attending to this rule 72 RHETORICAL GRAMMAR .
Page 102
... expression of passion or emo- tion consists in giving a distinct and specific quality to the sounds we use , rather than in in- creasing or diminishing their quantity , or in giv- ing this quantity any local direction upwards or ...
... expression of passion or emo- tion consists in giving a distinct and specific quality to the sounds we use , rather than in in- creasing or diminishing their quantity , or in giv- ing this quantity any local direction upwards or ...
Page 139
... expression of the sense ( for express- ing the sense of a passage , and expressing the passion of it , are very different things ) we may make the force of the emphatic words exceed that of the accented words as much as the ac- cented ...
... expression of the sense ( for express- ing the sense of a passage , and expressing the passion of it , are very different things ) we may make the force of the emphatic words exceed that of the accented words as much as the ac- cented ...
Page 180
... expressions , périodes ; mais celles qui expriment non seulement des pensées mais encore des pensées énoncées d ... expression . Du Marsaisdes Tropes p . 9 . : There is another view in which we may contem- plate [ 180 ] Explanation ...
... expressions , périodes ; mais celles qui expriment non seulement des pensées mais encore des pensées énoncées d ... expression . Du Marsaisdes Tropes p . 9 . : There is another view in which we may contem- plate [ 180 ] Explanation ...
Page 182
... expression of surprise and admira- ' tion ; and this expression makes it a figure . ' Or , in other words , a trope or figure is where a word or sentence is to be understood in a sense different from its most common and ordinary usage ...
... expression of surprise and admira- ' tion ; and this expression makes it a figure . ' Or , in other words , a trope or figure is where a word or sentence is to be understood in a sense different from its most common and ordinary usage ...
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accent ANACOENOSIS arguments arise Asyndeton attend beauty beginning blank verse Cæsar Cæsura called Catiline character Cicero Clodius common composition consider couplet degree Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished emphasis emphatic words endeavour example expression falling inflexion figure flexion following sentence force former give harmony heav'n higher tone honour Ibid idea inflexion of voice instance interrogative interrogative words Julius Cæsar kind language latter likewise long pause lower tone manner mark meaning Milo mind monotone nature necessary nounced nunciation object observed orator ornament Paradise Lost particular passion person phatical poet Polysyndeton Pompey Pope principal pronouncing this passage pronunciation proper prose question Quintilian racter reader reading reason Rhetoric rhyme riety rising inflexion Roman rule says simile sound speaker speaking Spect Spectator style syllable tence thing thou thought tion tone of voice variety verb verse virtue vowels whole writing
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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.