Treatise on RhetoricH. G. Bohn, 1857 - 500 стор. |
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accused actions adversary Alcidamas anger appear Aristotle cause CHAP character consider contrary definition deliberative diction dispositions effect enthymems envy epopee Euripides evil excite exordium fable fear feel friends greater happen hearer Hence Herodotus Homer honourable Iliad imitation infer Injury injustice instance Iphicrates Isocrates judge judicial kind manner means metaphor metre nature necessary nouns object one's orator pain passions persons pity pleasant pleasure poet poetry points possess praise principle probable produce proof question racter reason respecting rhetoric rhythm Ritter Sophocles speak speaker species of oration speech style syllogism Theodectes things Thucyd tion tragedy Twining Vertue virtue words αἱ ἀλλὰ ἂν ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ δι διὰ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ λέξις μὲν μὴ οἱ ὅσα ὅτι οὐ οὐκ περὶ πίστις πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Сторінка 87 - This law of nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times ; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
Сторінка 150 - As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Сторінка 241 - Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea.
Сторінка 120 - ... and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh : this is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent : but base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable : You shall read...
Сторінка 236 - Metaphor consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genus to species, or from species to genus, or from species to species, or on grounds of analogy.
Сторінка 68 - They must pry into the secret recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws; and they must trace the laws of particular states, especially of their own, from the first rough sketches to the more perfect draughts; from the first causes or occasions that produced them, through all the effects good and bad that they produced.
Сторінка 51 - At length his wife (a form divine) appears, With piercing cries, and supplicating tears ; She paints the horrors of a conquer'd town, The heroes slain, the palaces o'erthrown, The matrons ravish'd, the whole race enslaved : The warrior heard, he vanquish'd, and he saved.
Сторінка 209 - Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to things.
Сторінка 125 - Suppose a man, either from fear, or pride, or conscience, or whatever motive, has resolved to kill himself; when once the resolution is taken, he has nothing to fear. He may then go and take the King of Prussia by the nose, at the head of his army. He cannot fear the rack, who is resolved to kill himself.
Сторінка 181 - What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you.