The Art of Rhetoric Made Easy: Or, The Elements of Oratory Briefly Stated, and Fitted for the Practice of the Studious Youth of Great Britain and Ireland: in Two Books. The First Comprehending the Principles of the Excellent Art, Conformable to and Supported by the Authority of the Most Accurate Orators and Rhetoricians, Both Ancient and Modern. The Second Containing the Substance of Longinus's Celebrated Treatise on the Sublime, Bøger 1–2sold, 1755 - 96 sider |
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... fame Things . And what's the Band of a lafting Friendship but fuch a Conformity of Difpofitions ? NARRATION . You have every Man of you had my Defign communicated ' feparately to you already : And I cannot but tell you , that my Spirit ...
... fame Things . And what's the Band of a lafting Friendship but fuch a Conformity of Difpofitions ? NARRATION . You have every Man of you had my Defign communicated ' feparately to you already : And I cannot but tell you , that my Spirit ...
Side 19
... fame time that we have hardly fo much as Bread to fubfift on ? That they fhould have Choice of Seats for their Delight , and we fcarce have a fingle Houfe remaining to fhelter ourfelves in ? Your Pictures , your Statues , and your ...
... fame time that we have hardly fo much as Bread to fubfift on ? That they fhould have Choice of Seats for their Delight , and we fcarce have a fingle Houfe remaining to fhelter ourfelves in ? Your Pictures , your Statues , and your ...
Side 27
... fame Opi nion too is LONGINUS , as M. ROLLIN obferves , who fuppofes the Mind of an Orator or Poet , when he writes or fpeaks , to have nothing low or groveling in it : but on the contrary to be full of great I- deas , generous ...
... fame Opi nion too is LONGINUS , as M. ROLLIN obferves , who fuppofes the Mind of an Orator or Poet , when he writes or fpeaks , to have nothing low or groveling in it : but on the contrary to be full of great I- deas , generous ...
Side 31
... of Tropes , Figures , and Turns , has been already spoken to . The FIGURE METRICE following , which he has rank'd in the fame Method with his own II . ALLEGORY , ' Axλnyogía , a Speaking differently ELEMENTS OF ORATORY . 31.
... of Tropes , Figures , and Turns , has been already spoken to . The FIGURE METRICE following , which he has rank'd in the fame Method with his own II . ALLEGORY , ' Axλnyogía , a Speaking differently ELEMENTS OF ORATORY . 31.
Side 41
... fame , ' tis a Synecdoche : When he fays one thing and means another mutually depending , ' tis a Metonymy : When he says one thing and means another oppofite or contrary , ' tis an Irony : When he says one thing and means another like ...
... fame , ' tis a Synecdoche : When he fays one thing and means another mutually depending , ' tis a Metonymy : When he says one thing and means another oppofite or contrary , ' tis an Irony : When he says one thing and means another like ...
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alfo alſo ANAPHORA ANNOTATION ASYNDETON atque autem becauſe Cafe Cafu CATACHRESIS Cicero confifts dicere effe enim EPANALEPSIS EPANODOS EPIZEUXIS erit etiam Expreffion faid fame fays fhall fhew fhould Figures fome fpeak fuch funt hæc HERODOTUS himſelf Homer igitur illa Inft juft laft likewife LONGINUS malè Matth METONYMY mihi moft moſt muſt neque nifi nihil nobis Numbers obferves omnes Orator Oratory Ovid Paffions Perfon PERIPHRASIS Pfalm PLATO pleaſe POLYPTOTON poteft Prov quæ quafi quàm quas quibus quid quidem Quint QUINTILIAN quod quoque Reafon Rhetoric ſpeak Stile Sublimity SYNECDOCHE thefe theſe Things thofe thro tibi tion tis call'd Treatife Tropes uſe Verbis verò viii Virg whofe Words δὲ ἐκ ἐν καὶ περὶ τὰ τὰς τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῷ τῶν
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