English Composition and Rhetoric, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1888 |
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Página 49
... malignant pleasure that , in its unmixed form , would grate on other sensibilities of the mind . 4. Fear unalloyed is a painful passion , and ministers to pleasure only by reaction . For abating the pain of the state itself , and for ...
... malignant pleasure that , in its unmixed form , would grate on other sensibilities of the mind . 4. Fear unalloyed is a painful passion , and ministers to pleasure only by reaction . For abating the pain of the state itself , and for ...
Página 65
... Malignant Strength , a special group of examples will be given to represent the wide field of War or Conflict . Our maleficent pleasure has itself been traced back , with some plausibility , to the early struggle for existence ; the ...
... Malignant Strength , a special group of examples will be given to represent the wide field of War or Conflict . Our maleficent pleasure has itself been traced back , with some plausibility , to the early struggle for existence ; the ...
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... malignant chuckle , ' ' punishment , ' ' wrath , ' ' rancour , ' ' condemnation , ' ' glut your ire , ' ' make to smart , ' rebel , ' ' conspire , ' ' plot , ' ' intrigue , ' ' assassin , ' ' rise , ' ' pitiless , ' ' ruthless ...
... malignant chuckle , ' ' punishment , ' ' wrath , ' ' rancour , ' ' condemnation , ' ' glut your ire , ' ' make to smart , ' rebel , ' ' conspire , ' ' plot , ' ' intrigue , ' ' assassin , ' ' rise , ' ' pitiless , ' ' ruthless ...
Página 77
... of the passion allows this to be in a measure dis- pensed with . The more express artistic condition is to keep within the bounds that each age can tolerate , and to veil the nakedness of the malignant pleasure by pretexts ,
... of the passion allows this to be in a measure dis- pensed with . The more express artistic condition is to keep within the bounds that each age can tolerate , and to veil the nakedness of the malignant pleasure by pretexts ,
Página 78
Alexander Bain. veil the nakedness of the malignant pleasure by pretexts , diversion , poetic glitter and all the known means of refining the grosser kinds of pleasure . The foremost pretext for malignant infliction is always Retribution ...
Alexander Bain. veil the nakedness of the malignant pleasure by pretexts , diversion , poetic glitter and all the known means of refining the grosser kinds of pleasure . The foremost pretext for malignant infliction is always Retribution ...
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agreeable alliteration Anacreon artistic beauty Beneficent Strength Cæsura character charm circumstances combination comparison connexion contrast delight delineation diction Divine effect embodiment emotion energy erotic Eurydice example exemplified expression eyes figure force friendship genius give grandeur harmony heaven highest Homer human Humour hyperbolical ideal Iliad illustrated imitation impression intellectual intensity interest Julius Cæsar kind language lines literary lofty maleficent Malevolence malignant mankind Matthew Arnold melody ment metre Milton mind modes moral mountain nature ness Neutral Strength night objects ocean Ode to Duty pain Paradise Lost parental feeling passage passion Pathos Patroclus personification picture pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetic diction poetry pure redeeming reference regard Sappho scene sense Shakespeare sorrow stanza stars sublime success suggestion superiority sweet sympathy Tamburlaine Tender Feeling Tennyson's thee Theocritus things thou thought tion touches vast vocabulary winds words Wordsworth
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Página 81 - His house was known to all the vagrant train. He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain ; The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.
Página 198 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied, — We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.
Página 170 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...
Página 81 - And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain by turns dismayed, The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Página 19 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Página 190 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 127 - Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. O, gentle Romeo, If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully : Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo ; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light ; But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Página 10 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Página 89 - Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! blow ! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head ! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man ! Fool.
Página 161 - I heard the bell toll'd' on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? — It was.