Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary StudyHarper & brothers, 1888 - 638 pages |
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... effect . It is a form of speech artfully varied from the common usage . 17. Classification . Figures of speech may be divided into three classes : I. Figures of relativity ; II . Figures of gradation ; III . Figures of emphasis . Under ...
... effect . It is a form of speech artfully varied from the common usage . 17. Classification . Figures of speech may be divided into three classes : I. Figures of relativity ; II . Figures of gradation ; III . Figures of emphasis . Under ...
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... effect , adjunct , or accom- paniment . Thus : 1. Cause for effect , as “ the savage desolation of war , " where the cause of the desolation ( a savage spirit ) is put for the effect . 2. The effect for the cause , as gray hairs for old ...
... effect , adjunct , or accom- paniment . Thus : 1. Cause for effect , as “ the savage desolation of war , " where the cause of the desolation ( a savage spirit ) is put for the effect . 2. The effect for the cause , as gray hairs for old ...
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... arrangement of words , adopted with a view to greater effect . It is characteristic of poe- try , and of elevated or impassioned prose . GRAMMATICAL ORDER . I shall attempt neither to palliate nor DEFINITIONS . xxiil.
... arrangement of words , adopted with a view to greater effect . It is characteristic of poe- try , and of elevated or impassioned prose . GRAMMATICAL ORDER . I shall attempt neither to palliate nor DEFINITIONS . xxiil.
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... effect of sentences and paragraphs , where the words are chosen and arranged so as not only to express the meaning of the writer , but also to furnish a mu- sical accompaniment which shall at once delight the ear by its sound , and help ...
... effect of sentences and paragraphs , where the words are chosen and arranged so as not only to express the meaning of the writer , but also to furnish a mu- sical accompaniment which shall at once delight the ear by its sound , and help ...
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... effect of using the interrogative form here ? Point out another instance of its use in the same speech . 108. Remark on the expression " brutish beasts . " 83 པ 90 95 56 100 105 My heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar , 10 SHAKESPEARE .
... effect of using the interrogative form here ? Point out another instance of its use in the same speech . 108. Remark on the expression " brutish beasts . " 83 པ 90 95 56 100 105 My heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar , 10 SHAKESPEARE .
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Page 48 - MILTON ! thou should'st be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart : Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea : Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou...
Page 215 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 202 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.
Page 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 346 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 14 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him ; then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.
Page 292 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 322 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost...
Page 297 - The years to bring the inevitable yoke. Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life ! IX.
Page 288 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet, for a