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adapted adverb alliteration antecedent argument beauty become called Cardinal Newman Caroline of Brunswick character clause clearness condensed conjunctions construction coördinate course definite diction discourse distinction Don Francis effect elements emotion emphasis employed epithets essay EXAMPLES expression fact feeling figure of speech George Henry Lewes give grammatical habit hearer idea illustrate imagination important indicated instance intellectual invention kind language laws less literary literature logical Macaulay manner Matthew Arnold means merely Metonymy mind narrative natural NOTE object observed occasion oratory paragraph passage periodic sentence phrases poetic poetic diction poetry preceding present principle pronoun quality of style reader reference regarded relation relative relative clause repetition requires rhetoric seek sense sentence simile sion sometimes sound spirit statement structure subordinate suggestive Synecdoche taste tence theme things thought tion truth verb whole word-painting words writer needs
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Page 460 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
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Page 91 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 313 - Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve; after that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
Page 128 - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page 312 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
Page 466 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
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