The Philosophy of RhetoricT. Tegg, 1841 - 396 頁 |
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... remark in passing , that though language be older than criticism , those expressions adopted by the former to elucidate matters of taste , will be found to have a pretty close conformity to the purest discove- ries of the latter . Nay ...
... remark in passing , that though language be older than criticism , those expressions adopted by the former to elucidate matters of taste , will be found to have a pretty close conformity to the purest discove- ries of the latter . Nay ...
第 24 頁
... remarked in general , that from one or more of the three last mentioned varieties , those plebeian tribes of witticism , the conun- drums , the rebuses , the riddles , and some others , are lineally , though perhaps not all legitimately ...
... remarked in general , that from one or more of the three last mentioned varieties , those plebeian tribes of witticism , the conun- drums , the rebuses , the riddles , and some others , are lineally , though perhaps not all legitimately ...
第 25 頁
... remark of the word humour , as I did of the term wit , that we scarcely find in other languages a word exactly corresponding . The Latin facetia seems to come the nearest . Thus Cicero , " Huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales ...
... remark of the word humour , as I did of the term wit , that we scarcely find in other languages a word exactly corresponding . The Latin facetia seems to come the nearest . Thus Cicero , " Huic generi orationis aspergentur etiam sales ...
第 28 頁
... remarked in the former example , a trope familiar to this author , you have here a comparison of— a woman's chastity to a piece of porcelain , her honour to a gaudy robe , her prayers to a fantastical disguise , - her heart to a trinket ...
... remarked in the former example , a trope familiar to this author , you have here a comparison of— a woman's chastity to a piece of porcelain , her honour to a gaudy robe , her prayers to a fantastical disguise , - her heart to a trinket ...
第 29 頁
... remark by the way , gives the true meaning of the word oddity , and is the proper object of laughter . The difference between these and that grander kind of eloquence treated in the first part of this chapter , I shall , if possible ...
... remark by the way , gives the true meaning of the word oddity , and is the proper object of laughter . The difference between these and that grander kind of eloquence treated in the first part of this chapter , I shall , if possible ...
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第 341 頁 - Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father, our redeemer ; thy name is from everlasting.
第 341 頁 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
第 196 頁 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
第 284 頁 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
第 22 頁 - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box.
第 27 頁 - She said ; then raging to Sir Plume' repairs, And bids her beau demand the precious hairs : (Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane...
第 37 頁 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
第 183 頁 - We next went to the school of languages, where three professors sat in consultation upon improving that of their own country. The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because in reality all things imaginable are but nouns.
第 309 頁 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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 th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
第 377 頁 - Pr'ythee, lead me in: There take an inventory of all I have, To the last penny ; 'tis the king's : my robe, And my integrity to heaven, is all I dare now call mine own.