Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side vi
... Comparisons and Similies 132 LETTER XI . Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche . - Periphrasis . — Per- sonification . Irony Apostrophe . - Hyperbole ...
... Comparisons and Similies 132 LETTER XI . Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche . - Periphrasis . — Per- sonification . Irony Apostrophe . - Hyperbole ...
Side 54
... comparison with that of Cæsar , are highly ludicrous . Contrariety or contrast , is classed under the same head of association , by logical writers , as resemblance , and of the witty application of this we have a fine instance in the ...
... comparison with that of Cæsar , are highly ludicrous . Contrariety or contrast , is classed under the same head of association , by logical writers , as resemblance , and of the witty application of this we have a fine instance in the ...
Side 57
... comparison or combina , tion is made in the very words , as in the pas- sage of Hudibras , quoted by , I think , Lord : Kaimes- : " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And , like a lobster boil'd , the ...
... comparison or combina , tion is made in the very words , as in the pas- sage of Hudibras , quoted by , I think , Lord : Kaimes- : " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And , like a lobster boil'd , the ...
Side 58
... comparison between the low uses to which it has been applied , and the pro- per uses of a dagger . This appears to me the proper cause of the power of irony , that the reader's mind is con stantly making a comparison between the al ...
... comparison between the low uses to which it has been applied , and the pro- per uses of a dagger . This appears to me the proper cause of the power of irony , that the reader's mind is con stantly making a comparison between the al ...
Side 113
... comparison of the antient ; and the other falls so grossly into the censure of the old poetry , and preference of the new , that I could not read either of these strains without some indigna- tion ; which no quality among men is so apt ...
... comparison of the antient ; and the other falls so grossly into the censure of the old poetry , and preference of the new , that I could not read either of these strains without some indigna- tion ; which no quality among men is so apt ...
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