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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... question is asked : as , What day of the month is this ? It likewise distinguishes a ques- tion from a sentence in ... interrogative words , is extracted from a spelling - book , written by Mr. Perry , a very industrious , accurate ...
... question is asked : as , What day of the month is this ? It likewise distinguishes a ques- tion from a sentence in ... interrogative words , is extracted from a spelling - book , written by Mr. Perry , a very industrious , accurate ...
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... Question , or the Question with the Interrogative Words . RULE I. When an interrogative sentence commences with any of the interrogative pro- nouns or adverbs , with respect to inflexion , ele- vation , or depression of voice , it is ...
... Question , or the Question with the Interrogative Words . RULE I. When an interrogative sentence commences with any of the interrogative pro- nouns or adverbs , with respect to inflexion , ele- vation , or depression of voice , it is ...
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... words into an interrogation , by leaving out the interrogative word , we shall soon perceive the difference . Can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great or noble , who only believes that , after a short turn on the stage of this world ...
... words into an interrogation , by leaving out the interrogative word , we shall soon perceive the difference . Can he exalt his thoughts to any thing great or noble , who only believes that , after a short turn on the stage of this world ...
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... question formed with , and without the interrogative words . RULE II . Interrogative sentences commenc- ing with interrogative words , and consisting of members in a series depending necessarily on each other for sense , are to be ...
... question formed with , and without the interrogative words . RULE II . Interrogative sentences commenc- ing with interrogative words , and consisting of members in a series depending necessarily on each other for sense , are to be ...
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... Question , or the Question without the interrogative Words . RULE I. When interrogative sentences are formed without the interrogative words , the last word must have the rising inflexion . If there be an emphatical word in the last ...
... Question , or the Question without the interrogative Words . RULE I. When interrogative sentences are formed without the interrogative words , the last word must have the rising inflexion . If there be an emphatical word in the last ...
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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.