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... Metaphor 94 99 Hyperbole 105 Personification and Apostrophe 107 Comparison , Antithesis , Interrogation , Exclam- ation , and other Figures of Speech 111 • Antithesis 114 Interrogation and Exclamation 115 Vision 116 Climax 117 General ...
... Metaphor 94 99 Hyperbole 105 Personification and Apostrophe 107 Comparison , Antithesis , Interrogation , Exclam- ation , and other Figures of Speech 111 • Antithesis 114 Interrogation and Exclamation 115 Vision 116 Climax 117 General ...
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... metaphorical and poetical dress of lan- guage was at length laid aside in the inter- course of men , and reserved for those occa- sions only , on which ornament was professed- ly studied . RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE AND OF WRITING ...
... metaphorical and poetical dress of lan- guage was at length laid aside in the inter- course of men , and reserved for those occa- sions only , on which ornament was professed- ly studied . RISE AND PROGRESS OF LANGUAGE AND OF WRITING ...
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... metaphor . METAPHOR . METAPHOR is founded entirely on the resemblance , which one object bears to an other . It is , therefore , nearly allied to simile or comparison ; and is indeed a comparison in an abridged form . When we say of a ...
... metaphor . METAPHOR . METAPHOR is founded entirely on the resemblance , which one object bears to an other . It is , therefore , nearly allied to simile or comparison ; and is indeed a comparison in an abridged form . When we say of a ...
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... metaphor . Of all the figures of speech none approaches so near to painting , as metaphor . It gives light and strength to description ; makes intellectu- al ideas in some degree visible , by giving them colour , substance , and ...
... metaphor . Of all the figures of speech none approaches so near to painting , as metaphor . It gives light and strength to description ; makes intellectu- al ideas in some degree visible , by giving them colour , substance , and ...
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... metaphor should be found- ed on a resemblance , which is clear and strik- ing , not far fetched , nor difficult to be discover- ed . Harsh or forced metaphors are always dis- pleasing , because they perplex the reader , and instead of ...
... metaphor should be found- ed on a resemblance , which is clear and strik- ing , not far fetched , nor difficult to be discover- ed . Harsh or forced metaphors are always dis- pleasing , because they perplex the reader , and instead of ...
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Page 232 - Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Page 106 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 228 - Swinging slow with sullen roar ; Or, if the air will not permit, Some still, removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 27 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 31 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 134 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 230 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 233 - The mountains saw thee, and they trembled : the overflowing of the water passed by : the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Page 116 - God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man, that he should repent...
Page 229 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way?