Working Principles of Rhetoric ... |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 97
Page 3
... common psychological division of man's spiritual powers will indicate broadly three main lines of adaptation . There is first the power of intellect , by which a man knows , thinks , reasons . Discourse that addresses itself to this ...
... common psychological division of man's spiritual powers will indicate broadly three main lines of adaptation . There is first the power of intellect , by which a man knows , thinks , reasons . Discourse that addresses itself to this ...
Page 5
... may lie dormant and unsus- pected , needing the proper impulse of culture to awaken it . In the great majority of cases it exists merely in such moder- ate degree as to suffice for useful and common - INTRODUCTORY . 5.
... may lie dormant and unsus- pected , needing the proper impulse of culture to awaken it . In the great majority of cases it exists merely in such moder- ate degree as to suffice for useful and common - INTRODUCTORY . 5.
Page 6
John Franklin Genung. ate degree as to suffice for useful and common - sense work in the ordinary occasions of writing . So much aptitude may be taken for granted ; and if the higher degree is present it will according to its insight ...
John Franklin Genung. ate degree as to suffice for useful and common - sense work in the ordinary occasions of writing . So much aptitude may be taken for granted ; and if the higher degree is present it will according to its insight ...
Page 18
... common notion among practical - minded people that the style of a literary work is an addition from without2 ; as if the thought existed first by itself and then some one who could manipulate words dressed it up for effect . To them ...
... common notion among practical - minded people that the style of a literary work is an addition from without2 ; as if the thought existed first by itself and then some one who could manipulate words dressed it up for effect . To them ...
Page 20
... common with his whole generation , obey the influence of some type of expression set by a vigorous thinker or man of letters . There are styles that he may admire and emulate , one for one quality , another for another . But any direct ...
... common with his whole generation , obey the influence of some type of expression set by a vigorous thinker or man of letters . There are styles that he may admire and emulate , one for one quality , another for another . But any direct ...
Contents
356 | |
379 | |
387 | |
396 | |
402 | |
420 | |
432 | |
475 | |
131 | |
135 | |
141 | |
163 | |
171 | |
221 | |
232 | |
259 | |
268 | |
311 | |
320 | |
335 | |
345 | |
481 | |
493 | |
508 | |
520 | |
529 | |
543 | |
554 | |
633 | |
663 | |
664 | |
671 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adjective adverb alliteration amphibrach anapestic antecedent antithesis argument assertion beauty become blank verse cæsura called character clause clear coloring composition conjunctions connotation coördinate definition diction discourse distinction EARLE effect element emotion employed English Prose epithet essay euphony EXAMPLES exposition expression fact feeling figure following sentence give grammatical iambic iambus idea idiom illustrate imagination important invention kind language less literary literature MATTHEW ARNOLD means ment merely metre metrical mind mood movement musical narrative natural NOTE noun object occasion paragraph passage pause phrasal phrase poetic poetic diction poetry present principle quoted reader reference relation relative relative clause rhetorical rhyme rhythm sense sound speech spondee stanza STEVENSON story stress style subordinate suggestion syllables syllogism tence tendency Tennyson things thought tion trimeter trochaic trochee truth verb verse W. D. HOWELLS wherein whole words writer
Popular passages
Page 186 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 304 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 304 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said 'among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea,' yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Page 26 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 185 - I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:
Page 112 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!
Page 264 - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of...
Page 653 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! in this place, ran Cassius...
Page 642 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 501 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.