Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 9
Page 76
... 4thly . The following are examples of am- biguity arising from the wrong position of a conjunction . The historian , speaking of an impolitic edict of Julian , thus expresses him- self : " He enacted that , in a time of scarcity , it ...
... 4thly . The following are examples of am- biguity arising from the wrong position of a conjunction . The historian , speaking of an impolitic edict of Julian , thus expresses him- self : " He enacted that , in a time of scarcity , it ...
Page 111
... 4thly . We should endeavour to contrive that the members of our sentences shall rise upon one another , and beware of making the last sen- tence the echo of the former . This kind of arrangement is called a climax , when , as we proceed ...
... 4thly . We should endeavour to contrive that the members of our sentences shall rise upon one another , and beware of making the last sen- tence the echo of the former . This kind of arrangement is called a climax , when , as we proceed ...
Page 151
... 4thly . They should not be drawn from ob- jects quite unknown , for these , instead of throw- ing light upon a subject , can only serve to ren- der it more obscure . : 5thly . From what I have observed before , neither this nor any ...
... 4thly . They should not be drawn from ob- jects quite unknown , for these , instead of throw- ing light upon a subject , can only serve to ren- der it more obscure . : 5thly . From what I have observed before , neither this nor any ...
Page 156
... 4thly . For these reasons they bestow dignity on composition . How much nobler is it to say , " the vault of heaven , " than to use the com- mon word , " the sky . " So we say , " the evening of life , " for " old age . " Thus the ...
... 4thly . For these reasons they bestow dignity on composition . How much nobler is it to say , " the vault of heaven , " than to use the com- mon word , " the sky . " So we say , " the evening of life , " for " old age . " Thus the ...
Page 161
... as , " Showery radiance , breezy coolness , moving softness , refreshing breaths , dewy light , lucid coolness , " & c . 4thly . We should never confound the figurative and literal sense ; as when Penelope , in the METAPHORS . 161.
... as , " Showery radiance , breezy coolness , moving softness , refreshing breaths , dewy light , lucid coolness , " & c . 4thly . We should never confound the figurative and literal sense ; as when Penelope , in the METAPHORS . 161.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
3dly admire afford allegory animated antient appears argument arrangement beautiful Blair book of Job called catachresis Cicero circumstances common comparison composition conclude correct critic DEAR JOHN Demosthenes didactic discourse divine effect elegant eloquence example excellence excited exordium expression fancy figurative language frequently genius Gibbon guage harmony hearers Hudibras humour ideas imagery imagination instance introduced irony Isocrates kind letter Livy Lord manner matter mean ment metaphors metonymy mind modern narrative nature neral never nosyllable object obscurity observed orations oratory ornament passion pathetic perhaps periphrasis person Pitt plain pleasure poetry principal prose reader remark resemblance respect rhetoric ridiculous rules scarcely senate sense sentence sermons Shakspeare short sion Sisera sometimes speak speaker species speech style sublime synecdoche taste tence thing thou thought tion trochee truth tural Turenne verb verse words writer young