A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style ... with Rules, for the Study of Composition and Eloquence : Illustrated by Appropriate Examples, Selected Chiefly from the British Classics ...A.H. Maltby, 1839 - 306 頁 |
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... Occasions 159 Improper Occasions on which circumstantial Similes make their Appearance 160 Short Similes appear in the most passionate Scenes CHAPTER IV . - Personification 161 162 Descriptive Personification 162 Passionate ...
... Occasions 159 Improper Occasions on which circumstantial Similes make their Appearance 160 Short Similes appear in the most passionate Scenes CHAPTER IV . - Personification 161 162 Descriptive Personification 162 Passionate ...
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... occasions ; but they would enlarge and improve it as their future necessities required . 4. The cries of passion , accompanied with such motions and gestures , as are further expressive of passion , are the only signs which nature ...
... occasions ; but they would enlarge and improve it as their future necessities required . 4. The cries of passion , accompanied with such motions and gestures , as are further expressive of passion , are the only signs which nature ...
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... occasions , supplied the place of prepo- sitions ; -all contributed to leave the Greeks and Romans at liberty to gratify their feelings , or to consult the melody of their periods , by the arrangement of their words in sentences ...
... occasions , supplied the place of prepo- sitions ; -all contributed to leave the Greeks and Romans at liberty to gratify their feelings , or to consult the melody of their periods , by the arrangement of their words in sentences ...
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... occasion to speak or write . As their knowl- edge enlarges , as they obtain more ideas of substances than they have names to express , new names will be imposed on these new substan- ces , which will consequently throw into their ...
... occasion to speak or write . As their knowl- edge enlarges , as they obtain more ideas of substances than they have names to express , new names will be imposed on these new substan- ces , which will consequently throw into their ...
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... which men had more frequent occasion to express , than the difference be- tween one and many . Obs . The distinctions of number are signified , in most languages , . by some change in the terminations of the nouns Of Nouns Of Number.
... which men had more frequent occasion to express , than the difference be- tween one and many . Obs . The distinctions of number are signified , in most languages , . by some change in the terminations of the nouns Of Nouns Of Number.
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常見字詞
action Addison adjectives admit adverbs Æneid agent agreeable allegory ambiguity Analysis appear arrangement attention beauty Cæsar Catiline character Cicero circumstances common comparison composition convey Corol criticism Dean Swift degree Demosthenes denotes dignity discourse effect employed equivocal Example expression figure former frequent genius give grace hath hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad Illus imagination impression instance ject Julius Cæsar kind language Lord Bolingbroke Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning metaphors mind nature never nouns objects obscurity observe orator ornament Ossian passion period person personification perspicuity Pharsalia phrases pleasure poem poet poetry polished languages possess precision preposition principles pronouns proper propriety qualities Quinctilian reader reason resemblance rule Scholia Scholium sense sensible sentence sentiment Shakspeare signify similes sometimes sound speak species speech style sublime substantive syllables taste tence things thou thought tion trochees verb verse Virgil virtue words writing
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第 132 頁 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
第 134 頁 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
第 161 頁 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
第 66 頁 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
第 291 頁 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
第 156 頁 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
第 291 頁 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
第 168 頁 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
第 155 頁 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies ; ' The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
第 156 頁 - He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.