A Text-book on RhetoricMaynard, Merrill, & Company, 1896 |
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... writing is begun seem to us invaluable . The work in Lessons 21-30 , then , should not be slighted . formerly exacted in Lessons 25 and 26 has been omitted . The work 3. See to it , also , that in the department called Qualities of ...
... writing is begun seem to us invaluable . The work in Lessons 21-30 , then , should not be slighted . formerly exacted in Lessons 25 and 26 has been omitted . The work 3. See to it , also , that in the department called Qualities of ...
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... write to make known our thoughts , and we do it in sentences , the sen- tence being the universal and necessary form of oral and of written communication . In every sentence there are the words arranged in a certain order and addressed ...
... write to make known our thoughts , and we do it in sentences , the sen- tence being the universal and necessary form of oral and of written communication . In every sentence there are the words arranged in a certain order and addressed ...
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... write . But rhetoric was studied before writing became general , and ages and ages before printing was invented . Men spoke 12 Introductory .
... write . But rhetoric was studied before writing became general , and ages and ages before printing was invented . Men spoke 12 Introductory .
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... Writing was at first impossible , and for a long while difficult after it became possible . There were needed ( 1 ) an alphabet , and ( 2 ) something upon which to write . Letters , characters which would represent to the eye the sounds ...
... Writing was at first impossible , and for a long while difficult after it became possible . There were needed ( 1 ) an alphabet , and ( 2 ) something upon which to write . Letters , characters which would represent to the eye the sounds ...
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... writer who is accustomed to speaking , and who brings his sentences to this test , is the one likely to learn the secret of expression , the art of " putting things . " And this leads us to speak of Usage as Authority in Rhetoric ...
... writer who is accustomed to speaking , and who brings his sentences to this test , is the one likely to learn the secret of expression , the art of " putting things . " And this leads us to speak of Usage as Authority in Rhetoric ...
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Page 296 - That feelingly persuade me what I am.' Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life exempt from public haunt Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones and good in everything.
Page 137 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 318 - Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill...
Page 305 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 200 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 320 - If I were a dead leaf thou mightest bear ; If I were a swift cloud to fly with thee ; A wave to pant beneath thy power, and share The impulse of thy strength, only less free Than thou, O uncontrollable...
Page 306 - Ye blessed Creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel — I feel it all.
Page 294 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 307 - On every side, In a thousand valleys far and wide, Fresh flowers ; while the sun shines warm, And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm...
Page 310 - We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your hearts to-day Feel the gladness of the May...