 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 páginas
...against brevity are, 1. Tautology, which is the repetition of some idea in different words ; as, " It was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public." 2. Pleonasm. This implies bare superfluity, or more than enough ; as, " They returned back again to... | |
 | George Campbell - 1859 - 460 páginas
...common, and to be found even in our best writers. " In the Attic commonwealth," says Doctor Swift, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public."^ If he had said simply, " In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in... | |
 | George Campbell - 1860 - 458 páginas
...common, and to be found even in our best writers. "In the Attic commonwealth," says Doctor Swift, " it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public."^ If he had said simply, " In the Attic commonwealth it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1865 - 166 páginas
...whence they set out. 2. In the war that immediately followed, the Spartans were the first aggressors. 3. In the Attic Commonwealth it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public. 4. The arts of deceit and cunning do not grow weaker and less effectual and serviceable to them. 5.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 páginas
...Circumlocution. I. TAUTOLOGY means the repetition of the same sense in different words ; as when Swift says, " In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public" The meaning is the same as, " it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public." The following... | |
 | John Hugh Hawley - 1868 - 298 páginas
...whence they set out. 2. In the war that immediately followed, the Spartans were the first aggressors. 3. In the Attic Commonwealth it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public. 4. The arts of deceit and cunning do not grow weaker and less effectual and serviceable to them. 5.... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 páginas
...him by a young man for publication in BryExamples. [See preceding page.] Corrections. • "At Athena it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail At Athens it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public. aloud, and in public."— SWIFT.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 páginas
...against brevity are, 1. Tautology, which is the repetition of some idea in different words ; as, " It was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public.'1'' 2. Pleonasm. This implies bare superfluity, or more than enough ; as, " They returned back... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1876 - 128 páginas
...appreciable difference in their meaning. Swift illustrates the defect which I censure when he writes : "In the Attic Commonwealth, it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public." 2. In using too few words to express the thought. This is called Deficiency. "We must be careful, as... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 páginas
...indifference, or to survey so many beauties without a secret satisfaction and complacency. — Addiaon. (3) In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public. — Swift. (4) He [Pryor] had often infused into it [his style] much knowledge and much thought ; he... | |
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