Notes, Grammatical and Rhetorical, Upon the Oration On the Crown: With an Historical Sketch

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Ezekiel Hayes, 1855 - 256 pages
 

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Page 93 - He would never have been insulted with virtues, which he had laboured to extinguish, nor suffered the disgrace of a mortifying defeat, which has made him ridiculous and contemptible, even to the few by whom he was not detested. — I reverence the afflictions of a good man, — his sorrows are sacred. But how can we take part in the distresses of a man, whom we can neither love nor esteem ; or feel for a calamity of which he himself is insensible ? Where was the father's heart when he could look...
Page 242 - There, while they acted and overacted, among other young scholars, I was a spectator; they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools; they made sport, and I laughed; they mispronounced, and I misliked; and, to make up the Atticism, they were out, and I hissed.
Page 241 - But since there is such necessity to the hearsay of a tire, a periwig, or a vizard, that plays must have been seen, what difficulty was there in that ? when in the colleges so many of the young divines, and those in next aptitude" to divinity, have been seen so often upon the stage, writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes, buffoons, and bawds...
Page 242 - ... writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculos,0 buffoons and bawds, prostituting the shame of that ministry which either they had, or were nigh having, to the eyes of courtiers and court ladies, with their grooms and mademoiselles.
Page 123 - Repetition : to repeat, that is, the same sentiment and argument in many different forms of expression; each, in itself brief, but all, together, affording such an expansion of the sense to be conveyed, and so detaining the mind upon it, as the case may require.
Page 158 - ... other state had ever risked for town, in respect of magnanimity, cannot be too much admired. In our Parliament, pages 48 and 49 could not have been easily delivered for the bursts of cheering they would have occasioned. I find Lord Wellesley prefers this to almost all the other passages in A. — It is such things as this that haunt the student of eloquence, and will not quit his mind by day or by night, in the solitary walk, or in the senate and the forum, filling him at once with envy and admiration,...
Page 16 - Grecian cities, both small and great, independent, — except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros, which are to belong to Athens, as of old. Should any parties refuse to accept this peace, I will make war upon them, along with those who are of the same mind, both by land and sea, with ships and with money.
Page 189 - Sed aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare. Accusatio crimen desiderat, rem ut definiat, hominem ut notet, argumento probet, teste confirmet. Maledictio autem nihil habet propositi, praeter contumeliam ; quae si petulantius jactatur, convicium ; si facetius, urbanitas nominatur.
Page 246 - The repetitions, the enforcement again and again of the same points, are a distinguishing feature of Demosthenes, and formed also one of the characteristics of Mr. Fox's great eloquence. The ancient, however, was incomparably more felicitous in this than the modern ; for in the latter it often arose from carelessness, from ill-arranged discourse, from want of giving due attention, and from having once or twice attempted the topic and forgotten it, or perhaps from having failed to produce the desired...
Page 210 - The sentence is quoted as an example of /cXi/mf, or gradatio, by Quintilian (ix. 3. 54) in the Latin form, " Non enim dixi quidem sed non scripsi, nee scripsi quidem sed non obii legationem, nee obii quidem sed non persuasi Thebanis.

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