Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical Exercises and Examples, for the Use of Common Schools and Academies |
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... speak ing and reading the language ; and that altogether too limited an amount of time and share of attention are employed in teaching the art of correctly WRITING the language . He believes that during several years of attendance at ...
... speak ing and reading the language ; and that altogether too limited an amount of time and share of attention are employed in teaching the art of correctly WRITING the language . He believes that during several years of attendance at ...
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... speaking the language with accuracy and elegance - a very great , but not common accomplishment . When about to speak , we should then be likely to inquire of ourselves how we would express on paper the ideas we are about to communicate ...
... speaking the language with accuracy and elegance - a very great , but not common accomplishment . When about to speak , we should then be likely to inquire of ourselves how we would express on paper the ideas we are about to communicate ...
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... speak- ing the language well . OBJECTS AND PLAN OF THIS WORK . Its object is to train the young mind to think , and to be able to give a perspicuous , forcible , and elegant expression to thought in a written form . It is designed ...
... speak- ing the language well . OBJECTS AND PLAN OF THIS WORK . Its object is to train the young mind to think , and to be able to give a perspicuous , forcible , and elegant expression to thought in a written form . It is designed ...
Page xiv
... speaking the language correctly , than that of employing , or , rather , of wasting months and years , as is too commonly done , in simply parsing the language . Parsing is good , and necessary , in its place , but mischievous when used ...
... speaking the language correctly , than that of employing , or , rather , of wasting months and years , as is too commonly done , in simply parsing the language . Parsing is good , and necessary , in its place , but mischievous when used ...
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... speaking and writing . Rhetorical arrangement is that order of the words , in which the emphatical parts of the sentence are placed first . The rhetorical arrangement is used chiefly in poetry and impassioned prose . The principal rules ...
... speaking and writing . Rhetorical arrangement is that order of the words , in which the emphatical parts of the sentence are placed first . The rhetorical arrangement is used chiefly in poetry and impassioned prose . The principal rules ...
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Page 243 - And there was mounting in hot haste; the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 242 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 254 - Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Page 243 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 218 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 80 - 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.
Page 163 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; my lust shall be satisfied upon them ; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 216 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'. Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
Page 242 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 211 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?