The Might and Mirth of Literature: A Treatise on Figurative Language. In which Upwards of Six Hundred Writers are Referred To, and Two Hundred and Twenty Figures Illustrated ...Harper & Brothers, 1875 - 542 Seiten |
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... Eloquence , Figures , will Increase . - Dis- cussion of the Periodic Sentence . — True Definition of Good Style .. 137 CHAPTER VI . FIGURES OF RHETORIC . - PART FIRST . Our most Important Division Come at Last . - A Protest against the ...
... Eloquence , Figures , will Increase . - Dis- cussion of the Periodic Sentence . — True Definition of Good Style .. 137 CHAPTER VI . FIGURES OF RHETORIC . - PART FIRST . Our most Important Division Come at Last . - A Protest against the ...
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... Eloquence from the Pulpit . - Grandeur of Immortality . How Wise in Christ to Give in His System so Leading a Place to Preaching . - Never will Pulpit be Superseded by the Newspa- per or by the Printing - press . - CIX . Self ...
... Eloquence from the Pulpit . - Grandeur of Immortality . How Wise in Christ to Give in His System so Leading a Place to Preaching . - Never will Pulpit be Superseded by the Newspa- per or by the Printing - press . - CIX . Self ...
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... Eloquence by Burke and Curran . - The Captive in his Dungeon . - A Miser in his Coffin . - Dr . Bethune makes Good Use of a Door - lock . - Steal- ing the Coo was Necessary . - CLV . Plurals . - CLVI . Optation , or Wish . -The Fat Monk ...
... Eloquence by Burke and Curran . - The Captive in his Dungeon . - A Miser in his Coffin . - Dr . Bethune makes Good Use of a Door - lock . - Steal- ing the Coo was Necessary . - CLV . Plurals . - CLVI . Optation , or Wish . -The Fat Monk ...
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... on the Romans ; " but in his " Institutes " this fault is almost wholly absent , while every paragraph glows with that deep - seated warmth of eloquence which so greatly distinguishes him among di- vines . xlii Introduction .
... on the Romans ; " but in his " Institutes " this fault is almost wholly absent , while every paragraph glows with that deep - seated warmth of eloquence which so greatly distinguishes him among di- vines . xlii Introduction .
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... eloquence which so greatly distinguishes him among di- vines . Especially read his " Commercial Discourses " and his " Astronomical Discourses . " The latter had a circu- lation when they first appeared as great as Scott's Wav- erley ...
... eloquence which so greatly distinguishes him among di- vines . Especially read his " Commercial Discourses " and his " Astronomical Discourses . " The latter had a circu- lation when they first appeared as great as Scott's Wav- erley ...
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adjective admirable alliteration ballad beautiful Ben Jonson Bible breath Cæsar catachresis Charles Christ Cicero Coriolanus cried Cymbeline dark death delight Demosthenes earth effect ellipsis eloquence enallage England English example expression feeling FIGURES OF RHETORIC flowers France genius George Giles Fletcher give Greek hand hath hear heart heaven Henry Hyperbaton instance Ireland James Jesus John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin light literature living in 1875 Lord Mark means metaphor metonymy Milton mind nature never night noble noun o'er object orator oratory Paradise Lost passion periphrasis pleonasm poem poesy poet poetic poetry prose pulpit scene Scotland Scripture sentence sermon Shakespeare simile soul speak speaker speech style sublime sweet tell tempest thee thing Thomas thou thought thunder tion trope truth turn United verb William wind words writing
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Seite 371 - Mysterious Night ! when our first Parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of heaven came; And lo, Creation widened in man's view.
Seite 259 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Seite 282 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter "Little Prig. Bun replied, " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither...
Seite 178 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Seite 164 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 101 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Seite 243 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Seite 254 - A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Seite 265 - What though, in solemn silence, all Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; What though no real voice nor sound Amid their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Seite xlviii - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.