Complete RhetoricS. C. Griggs, 1885 - 346 páginas |
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... given to our society , through all its relations , a charac- ter exclusively its own . - Choate . I intrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather . If the wind comes through a passage , I look about to see how I can ...
... given to our society , through all its relations , a charac- ter exclusively its own . - Choate . I intrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather . If the wind comes through a passage , I look about to see how I can ...
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... given to hospitality . Such departures from the customary , each having a cast or turn peculiar to itself , much as the shape of one body dis- tinguishes it from another , are called Figures of Speech . They affect the form , meaning ...
... given to hospitality . Such departures from the customary , each having a cast or turn peculiar to itself , much as the shape of one body dis- tinguishes it from another , are called Figures of Speech . They affect the form , meaning ...
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... given to a word , a figurative meaning is a meaning different from the first , yet sug- gested by it on account of a similarity . Thus the literal meaning of head is that part of the body containing the brain : its figurative meaning is ...
... given to a word , a figurative meaning is a meaning different from the first , yet sug- gested by it on account of a similarity . Thus the literal meaning of head is that part of the body containing the brain : its figurative meaning is ...
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... given it by Aristotle and , recently , by Haven and Farrar - to denote the use of a term in any figurative as distinguished from a literal meaning , whether the figure be founded upon a resemblance between the two objects or upon some ...
... given it by Aristotle and , recently , by Haven and Farrar - to denote the use of a term in any figurative as distinguished from a literal meaning , whether the figure be founded upon a resemblance between the two objects or upon some ...
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... given ) or figurative . The true test is , not that the statement is literally untrue ( which would be the case with all metaphors ) , but that the subject is mag- nified : as when a writer describes the carnage of a battle by ' rivers ...
... given ) or figurative . The true test is , not that the statement is literally untrue ( which would be the case with all metaphors ) , but that the subject is mag- nified : as when a writer describes the carnage of a battle by ' rivers ...
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Página 46 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams ; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 142 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 182 - Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavour in continual motion; To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Página 238 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Página 324 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Página 4 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, Nature be, His art doth give the fashion.
Página 97 - Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy ; Blood and destruction shall be so in use, And dreadful objects so familiar, That mothers shall but smile when they behold Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war ; All pity choked with custom of fell deeds : And Caesar's spirit ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry
Página 245 - Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?
Página 96 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.
Página 244 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...