A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style: Inferred from Examples of Writing : to which is Added a Historical Dissertation of English StyleIvison & Phinney, 1854 - 311 من الصفحات |
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... figurative , and the ele gances of expression ; or , again , with false notions of what is original and forcible , he may be striving after what is sententious and striking . Sometimes , too , there exists a fastidiousness of taste ...
... figurative , and the ele gances of expression ; or , again , with false notions of what is original and forcible , he may be striving after what is sententious and striking . Sometimes , too , there exists a fastidiousness of taste ...
الصفحة 89
... figuratively , a few more exemples will now be given . Example 5. Of Mr. Roscoe it is said in the Sketch Book , “ He found the tide of wealth flowing merely in the channels of traffic ; he has diverted from it invigorating rills to ...
... figuratively , a few more exemples will now be given . Example 5. Of Mr. Roscoe it is said in the Sketch Book , “ He found the tide of wealth flowing merely in the channels of traffic ; he has diverted from it invigorating rills to ...
الصفحة 90
... figuratively and literally . Example 6. A writer in the Edinburgh Review , with the design of showing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence , says , " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the ...
... figuratively and literally . Example 6. A writer in the Edinburgh Review , with the design of showing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence , says , " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the ...
الصفحة 92
... figurative application of language too far . EXAMPLE 8. " Half round the globe , the tears pumped up by death Are spent in watering vanities of life . " The metaphor in this passage , though it may catch the at- tention because of its ...
... figurative application of language too far . EXAMPLE 8. " Half round the globe , the tears pumped up by death Are spent in watering vanities of life . " The metaphor in this passage , though it may catch the at- tention because of its ...
الصفحة 93
... figuratively , - that several cautions are to be observed in this figurative ap- plication of words , and that strained and forced metaphors are to be avoided . It has been common to mark a distinction between the metaphor and the ...
... figuratively , - that several cautions are to be observed in this figurative ap- plication of words , and that strained and forced metaphors are to be avoided . It has been common to mark a distinction between the metaphor and the ...
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