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The Studies of an Orator: An Inaugural Address, Delivered at the Annual Commencement in Dartmouth College, July, 1840
Excerpt from The Studies of an An Inaugural Address, Delivered at the Annual Commencement in Dartmouth College, July, 1840
Were it demanded, rt might be shown how those, in every age, whose musical, vigorous speech we most admire, have labored to obtain the desired excellence; with how much toil Milton sined a mastery of the artifice of language what critica care he built up the lofty rhyme how Petrarch returned to his sonnets, day after day, to alter a single word, or make a trifling change m the arrangement of a line; how Virgil revised, corrected, remodelled his verses, like a she-bear -to use his own comparison - licking her ill-formed ofl'spring into shape; how relentlessly Demosthenes disciplined his words, how carefully he chose his figures, how diligently he moulded them. But these things are on record.
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Were it demanded, rt might be shown how those, in every age, whose musical, vigorous speech we most admire, have labored to obtain the desired excellence; with how much toil Milton sined a mastery of the artifice of language what critica care he built up the lofty rhyme how Petrarch returned to his sonnets, day after day, to alter a single word, or make a trifling change m the arrangement of a line; how Virgil revised, corrected, remodelled his verses, like a she-bear -to use his own comparison - licking her ill-formed ofl'spring into shape; how relentlessly Demosthenes disciplined his words, how carefully he chose his figures, how diligently he moulded them. But these things are on record.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
26 pages, Hardcover
Published February 3, 2019
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