English Composition and Rhetoric, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1888 |
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Alexander Bain. INFERIOR DEGREE OF THE EFFECT . 29 takes a different turn in Johnson and other eighteenth century writers . For example : - From bard to bard the frigid caution crept , Till declamation roared , whilst passion slept ; Yet ...
Alexander Bain. INFERIOR DEGREE OF THE EFFECT . 29 takes a different turn in Johnson and other eighteenth century writers . For example : - From bard to bard the frigid caution crept , Till declamation roared , whilst passion slept ; Yet ...
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Alexander Bain. generally : " The conception of nature as exhibiting sympathy with sudden turns in human affairs is one of the most fundamental instincts of poetry . To cite notable instances : it is this which accompanies with storm and ...
Alexander Bain. generally : " The conception of nature as exhibiting sympathy with sudden turns in human affairs is one of the most fundamental instincts of poetry . To cite notable instances : it is this which accompanies with storm and ...
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... turn images into abstractions- Minerva , for example , into Wisdom-- -so there is no stronger sign of a mind truly poetical than a disposition to reverse the process , and to make individuals out of generalities ' . Copiousness of ...
... turn images into abstractions- Minerva , for example , into Wisdom-- -so there is no stronger sign of a mind truly poetical than a disposition to reverse the process , and to make individuals out of generalities ' . Copiousness of ...
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... turns upon the art of verbal presentation . Time , in the abstract , is nothing ; the effect on the mind needs the recital of grand and imposing incidents and changes in sustained and harmonious phraseology . The interest of Time ...
... turns upon the art of verbal presentation . Time , in the abstract , is nothing ; the effect on the mind needs the recital of grand and imposing incidents and changes in sustained and harmonious phraseology . The interest of Time ...
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... turns . It has also to be observed that emotional associations of opposite character sometimes attach to the same word . Thus , " night " is a gladsome term , when we think of night as the season of rest and repose ; it has terrifying ...
... turns . It has also to be observed that emotional associations of opposite character sometimes attach to the same word . Thus , " night " is a gladsome term , when we think of night as the season of rest and repose ; it has terrifying ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.