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... great classes - long and short . The first gives gravity and dignity to composition , but requires careful handling and a high degree of elaboration , that the clauses be properly arranged , and the leading subject 8 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
... great classes - long and short . The first gives gravity and dignity to composition , but requires careful handling and a high degree of elaboration , that the clauses be properly arranged , and the leading subject 8 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
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... short , in French . ' Kant , ' says De Quincey , ' might naturally enough have written a book from beginning to end in one vast hyperbolical sen- tence . ' But , ' A long , involved sentence could not be produced from French literature ...
... short , in French . ' Kant , ' says De Quincey , ' might naturally enough have written a book from beginning to end in one vast hyperbolical sen- tence . ' But , ' A long , involved sentence could not be produced from French literature ...
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... short , sentences may be further classi- fied into periodic and loose . The criterion of the former is , that the parts remain suspended in the mind till the whole is finished , when the meaning is flashed back 10 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
... short , sentences may be further classi- fied into periodic and loose . The criterion of the former is , that the parts remain suspended in the mind till the whole is finished , when the meaning is flashed back 10 COMPLETE RHETORIC .
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... short allegory in which animals and inanimate objects are endowed with human attributes , and are made to speak and act in such a way as to convey some useful lesson . Personification .'- Personification is the ascription of human ...
... short allegory in which animals and inanimate objects are endowed with human attributes , and are made to speak and act in such a way as to convey some useful lesson . Personification .'- Personification is the ascription of human ...
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... short and dark as her brother , ' with ' She is as short and dark as a mid - winter day . ' The fact of comparison must be the test , rather than the introductory like or as , which is not always expressed . Thus , ' We have often ...
... short and dark as her brother , ' with ' She is as short and dark as a mid - winter day . ' The fact of comparison must be the test , rather than the introductory like or as , which is not always expressed . Thus , ' We have often ...
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Page 243 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and' far delight,— A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 182 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Page 238 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 301 - Who, you all know, are honorable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Page 4 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion.
Page 11 - 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, heavenly 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...
Page 167 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 96 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,— Which, like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
Page 184 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of Strafford had for a moment awed and melted a victorious party inflamed with just resentment, the hall where Charles had confronted the High Court of Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame.
Page 244 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...