Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University, Volume 2Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810 - Oratory |
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Page 145
... beauty , coloring , and the painter's brush ; or as if , in speaking of the Æneid , you should say its poetry consisted of harmony , fiction , and Virgil's hand - writing . This combination of elegance , composition , and dignity , as ...
... beauty , coloring , and the painter's brush ; or as if , in speaking of the Æneid , you should say its poetry consisted of harmony , fiction , and Virgil's hand - writing . This combination of elegance , composition , and dignity , as ...
Page 150
... beauty , which the term in its common acceptation imports , nei- ther purity nor perspicuity would suffice , singly or combined , for its production . The object in re- view is naked words ; single words in their plain- est literal ...
... beauty , which the term in its common acceptation imports , nei- ther purity nor perspicuity would suffice , singly or combined , for its production . The object in re- view is naked words ; single words in their plain- est literal ...
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... beauty and the grace of composition depend upon the na- ture of the letters and upon the quality of the syl- lables , which are combined in the formation of the words . He therefore analyzes with great accura- cy the twenty four letters ...
... beauty and the grace of composition depend upon the na- ture of the letters and upon the quality of the syl- lables , which are combined in the formation of the words . He therefore analyzes with great accura- cy the twenty four letters ...
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... beauty of oratorical composition , with- out some knowledge and attention to its numbers . And what are oratorical numbers ? The readi- est answer to this question might perhaps be , that there is now among us no such thing . That they ...
... beauty of oratorical composition , with- out some knowledge and attention to its numbers . And what are oratorical numbers ? The readi- est answer to this question might perhaps be , that there is now among us no such thing . That they ...
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... beauty of the dis- course , and , in admiration of the speaker , yields , as to a sort of self - indulgence , to the pleasure of hear- ing him . The perfect period , as I have shown , is more difficult in the construction of our ...
... beauty of the dis- course , and , in admiration of the speaker , yields , as to a sort of self - indulgence , to the pleasure of hear- ing him . The perfect period , as I have shown , is more difficult in the construction of our ...
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