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... elements of rhetoric " are so numerous that any attempt to cover them all in a book of moderate size reduces them to little more than an inventory or cata- logue . Such an inventory may be very useful , as a dictionary is , for ...
... elements of rhetoric " are so numerous that any attempt to cover them all in a book of moderate size reduces them to little more than an inventory or cata- logue . Such an inventory may be very useful , as a dictionary is , for ...
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... elements . Then , upon the mingled peoples fell the mailed hand of the Norman , crushing them closer together , while for three hundred years the Normans occupied themselves in a vain endeavor to make Englishmen talk French , till at ...
... elements . Then , upon the mingled peoples fell the mailed hand of the Norman , crushing them closer together , while for three hundred years the Normans occupied themselves in a vain endeavor to make Englishmen talk French , till at ...
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... element of weakness in those languages , and not an evidence of richness or strength . Change of form for no adequate reason has the defect of burdening the mem- ory without illuminating the thought . It is the better machine that ...
... element of weakness in those languages , and not an evidence of richness or strength . Change of form for no adequate reason has the defect of burdening the mem- ory without illuminating the thought . It is the better machine that ...
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... elements of various power , effective now for one result , and again for a widely different purpose ; we must know its masterpieces , and those not of any single period , for no one age can produce a literature . While gathering the ...
... elements of various power , effective now for one result , and again for a widely different purpose ; we must know its masterpieces , and those not of any single period , for no one age can produce a literature . While gathering the ...
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... element to excess , and filling his pages with -ations and -osities . But you will find in his writings much that is at once strong , refined , and beautiful . Note the celebrated introduction to his " History of Rasselas , Prince of ...
... element to excess , and filling his pages with -ations and -osities . But you will find in his writings much that is at once strong , refined , and beautiful . Note the celebrated introduction to his " History of Rasselas , Prince of ...
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Page 55 - 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 54 - Our song and feast shall flow To the fame of your name, When the storm has ceased to blow!
Page 42 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 323 - If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul.
Page 303 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn. Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 42 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 43 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 60 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Page 235 - I had never before seen any of them. I bought it, read it over and over, and was much delighted with it. I thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to imitate it.
Page 39 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds...