The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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Pagina 31
... orators of Greece , there is not a solitary gleam of rhetoric : Isocrates may have a little , being ( to say the truth ) neither orator nor rhetorician in any eminent sense ; Demosthenes has none . But when those great thunders had ...
... orators of Greece , there is not a solitary gleam of rhetoric : Isocrates may have a little , being ( to say the truth ) neither orator nor rhetorician in any eminent sense ; Demosthenes has none . But when those great thunders had ...
Pagina 52
... orators who have been particularly recorded , to the ideal of a fine rhetorician . It was no disadvantage to him that he was shallow , being so luminous and transparent ; and the splen- dour of his periodic diction , with his fine ...
... orators who have been particularly recorded , to the ideal of a fine rhetorician . It was no disadvantage to him that he was shallow , being so luminous and transparent ; and the splen- dour of his periodic diction , with his fine ...
Pagina 54
... orator that he , and his friends on his behalf , have put foward the hollowest pre- tensions . In the course of the Hastings trial , upon the con- cerns of paralytic Begums , and mouldering queens - hage that , if ever actually existing ...
... orator that he , and his friends on his behalf , have put foward the hollowest pre- tensions . In the course of the Hastings trial , upon the con- cerns of paralytic Begums , and mouldering queens - hage that , if ever actually existing ...
Pagina 63
... , we have confined ourselves to the literature of England : the rhetoric of the Continent would demand a separate notice , and chiefly on account of the French pulpit orators . For , laying them aside , we are not aware of any RHETORIC .
... , we have confined ourselves to the literature of England : the rhetoric of the Continent would demand a separate notice , and chiefly on account of the French pulpit orators . For , laying them aside , we are not aware of any RHETORIC .
Pagina 64
... orators ; Mirabeau , Isnard , the Abbé Maury , but no rhetoricians . Florian , Chateaubriand , and others , who have written the most florid prose that the modern taste can bear , are elegant sentimentalists , some- times maudlin and ...
... orators ; Mirabeau , Isnard , the Abbé Maury , but no rhetoricians . Florian , Chateaubriand , and others , who have written the most florid prose that the modern taste can bear , are elegant sentimentalists , some- times maudlin and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 56 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Pagina 57 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Pagina 56 - Sion — as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Pagina 120 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Pagina 90 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Pagina 57 - ... and each other's rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together : the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be ' Dum Domus ^Enese Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque Pater...
Pagina 251 - Euripides ; and that his pupils ^Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Pagina 37 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Pagina 272 - ... union is too subtle; the intertexture too ineffable, each co-existing not merely with the other, but each in and through the other. An image, for instance, a single word, often enters into a thought as a constituent part. In short, the two elements are not united as a body with a separable dress, but as a mysterious incarnation. And thus, in what proportion the thoughts are subjective, in that same proportion does their very essence become identical with the expression, and the style become confluent...
Pagina 74 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.