The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-19

| again and aRein without any regard for thu.
| gruity Of his discourse, the intelligence =. az,
patience OF his readers, occupy II. nv ~
PAGES and swell his book 90 a discourac,r, -
A. an example Of how thcso extraneou. tnc,-'''
are introduced, read the following.
by the time this mage has been reached. ,,,..
rnadyr itrs tho V.st inpptt nee Of u.r ',i 'tf
| Think of The ere histot,cal word " '9il ..
| my o.d". ~, tue tens o.. thousands siaug,.
81 for tfausutstanuati"nl Acr1ta.1a
| - iitrrd; "bods" Is liciai: ~ g',d,',
,.rfprc.cni7 " s"ns o. pht icily civcu.a,
| PRIESTS, this" - IT, raj; "uody" H. ',,r
- - w. atanfs for H. ct.uccd int" "a 81. w..
| never bat. witch nf Lrc twn p,rtie. +. tI u
| Hcrdf Our s'ihiect Rods WITHIN i, s,,,1 =,
| Jaws, aptIicatiun', as would by Gods hln.t,,'
haVe yea 10 tao = rth mucl Of the most d.,
~, - cowrrdly In she circumstance Of In, '''
hiction, that at tho recoi ction vi thcr Gi.,',
| DiH,h1s. ls our subject trivial. tasnf H..
! graded 40 long 10y lame, uhallOw, unpnIios,,
| cal handling '-
| Although the author takes care 10 sa,. fran,
time TO time, that figures Of speech mn.th, tls
natural outerowtn and expression of tLcuol,,
ahd emotions yet he 80 cu,oei1es the variou,
figures NJ which he treats as to create IN i,u,r,.
son on an inexperienced reader that cacl q ON.
has In Itself some wonderful power and b.auiv
even when used ortncially aud arbitrnrly.
Give five or six DAYS IN such an csnn.,ra.,,,
| OF the effect in his (ShpkespeAre'si LnuJs 1
| front cuts, mid-cuts, aud end-cu's and YOU NJ
he aetunished 1t the superb USES which Il IN .si,,
can make Of even the minutest aud most OIL
site CcVtcrties II dictiOn.
Enaliafe is the ieuro we proceed with-oI
very great value; the use OF one pat ~ spccel'
| or ui one modihca'ipn OF part ~ s,eeca III
another. We lay before YOU twenty -ix v..tr.
| tes' each deserving 10 rank as a separate hrurc
Judge stcrnly for yoursef " they laau you moi
deep and with a Ncnus-hke bend, into Inc
lnnost reces-es OF tins vast forest which
we call anguagc. The following "a the fulicst
icCOunt OF eiiHllage that has ever uupgaret
G.iher cut OF Scripture two hundred vdrie;..s-,
u feast Of Strawberries for your own private cat
ing; and then hundred cases Of ea.h indiyi-
dual sort.
The only thing in the work likely 10 counter.
act such erroneous impression cGectualiy II ris
authors style. especially when he emleIl,t,,
1t with specimens Of the figures which he la.
under consideration at the time:
" This use OF one c Sc for another struts nj ,,,
| ~ the literary realm by no less name tr -
NXlX., Antiptoss. what dignity doth at;,s.
word OF four syllables give to the mattorl H.
| no means thar boy besappeI aware VIA
classical antintosian WY OF speaking was hf'
SO we are Informed BY tho rhetors thst-XXX.,
another; while the OF one form OF nom
pron9un, or verb for another is XXXI., Hete.
Is 1t always that the snow wrenths lie smoo,h
| IN the sustv hooks Of the hills? Know- little ~
language he who will deny that words can no
whirled even more wildly than snow flakes
Old age by no means so naturally su9gests the
thought OF picture as Il does the thought of
| Ed is SO inevitably drawing near. VI
On the other hand when the first sin volcanoe,
out It's way, Milton tells US with the deepest
| poetic truth.
Mrs. Blrbauld, a writer Of uncommon ylcor.
| writes OF the discomforts Of a wash,ne day
| Not Is 1t the hand that can b impatient.
samuel Lover another inimit able IFslman.
| also dealeth sorrowfully In widows.
standardization deserves mention, however
| shortly; let us be fabricated by Samuel Fefpns.
son. He spealss Of n pretty maid We see a
material object turned To an ethereal use.
We invite all our readers TO take the saiue
reyerentiI position as to the remarkable nut
ana defend. Not doth the sacred narrative re-.
quire us TO hold literal speech by the b,diiy
organs and by the intel Get OF the aniinal but
| speech 10y an angelic minister, " no could speak
az easily from an animals mouth as from any
other place Then weigh our argument from
literature and from hgures-an argument entire
Is new.
BY this time the render is probably convinced
that this author has very clear instructive per-
ceptions Of what WIS tho real matter with
Bala ms ass, how he actually felt, and what he
would be likely to do, and what hot 10
do. lie to have written the book
under consideration chiefly from a desire
to do some preaching, to display his KNOW
edge, more especially TO exhibit his bits
Of poes,," and his familiarity with Latin,
Greek, and Hebrew, and with four OF the mod
EN- languages, French. German, Italian. and
SPANISH also TO make known the scope of HE
detecting and discovering figures OF speech, and
his ability to instruct all mankind. To makca
full exhibition Of all his acquisitions. he ucs ia
great variety of matter impertncnt to his pro-
posed subject, while lie fails to Discriminate with
reasonable nicely between what are and what
are not such figures Of speech Is should properly
come within even thc widest treatment. ana IN
some cases, between one Ggure and another as
when lie s.ys, I'VE have recourse TO mof.rllr
when ono says, pointing TO portrait an ITO
WALL This is Washington" where he evidently
calls clllpsis by another name. 1hcful sentence
would be, This Is portrait Of Washington"
But it was important to one Of his arguments
Oh the text, "rns ls my body" ana 90 snow
how 1.-THE correct doctrine Of metaphor swc,pl
the doctrine OF trausubstantiation out q tie
scriptures,' thGt he should Il 'al,e els IN both
cases mem "reprcsen,s." The reader viii PER-
ceive that tho author has made otou'auous
show Of extensive reading, but he viii dso md
reason to suspect that no small part Of as cis-
tions and Of the comments ulcn them vera
taken at second hand; and when he comes TO
the passage Of the work quoted below he Wh
doubt the writer's accuracy:
Neinthess next ciaila attention. or twisting,
of a word Into soma different order "a arrange.
mcnt. "a Will detect % ~ the following IT.
pathetic lines hy rom Moore tho Ir'-n nli2,
wherein no lemons lis destiny ,ybi,n All N rs
nave shared IN being caught IN heavy 'noNI
unDruHiess:
ever thus. from cfilihood's hour,
90 ~ cni'iitg f1i" nIon me fell;
lhrrr away conts suaGtn- shower
When haunt got an uAh r,l.
And when. after q citation Of some lines fom
roem made between the years 100 ana ia,N
the reader finds the following commnut, he 4
sure that the author does not slwi,s o., no
English language correctly, especially tie VOID
refers :"
Ia our humble OPINION, no more Tatroid
pl"s Ee nv an our ierature for Il Ofers to fiht
sore struggle for lie whi'h is going ON t tts
hour, IN the winter Of lSi4-,5. in New YORK. tno
most advanced city OF our impeIiileu civi.4l-
ton.
And when he perceires Hirt the word petite
Is used as If 1t were English, In the following
quotation, he Will be convinced that the author
Is so familiar with Fionch that he cannot dist.u-
guish 1t from his own language. and VIII there
fore abstain from assailing HIM violently re-
cause OF his laundering pedantry and bad tlste:
The Rev. William Lisle Bowles f. srill remem-
bered 10y petite yniumc ~ snuhets only four
teen IN number, highly finished, bun possessing
little force.
MIR. Macbeth writes rs might man who had
been for - long Tin tl.e uodag cue or preacher