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 of ...
... 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 of ...
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Página 61 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
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 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 179 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
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 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 86 - Christ) which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit...
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. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,— Which, like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
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.