Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Bind 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 sider |
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Side vi
... Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche . - Periphrasis . — Per- sonification . Irony Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - 179 LETTER XIV . General observations on ...
... Metaphors 152 LETTER XII . 165 Allegory . - Allusion . — Catachresis . — Antithesis LETTER XIII . Metonymy . Synedoche . - Periphrasis . — Per- sonification . Irony Apostrophe . - Hyperbole . - 179 LETTER XIV . General observations on ...
Side 12
... metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are the har- mony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysi ...
... metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are the har- mony arising from the metre or the rhyme , and which ( without entering into a metaphysi ...
Side 81
... seem to demonstrate how necessary it is to be guarded against it . Lord Kaimes speaks of the comedies of Aristo- phanes " wallowing in looseness and detrac- tion , " ( which is moreover a false metaphor E 5 PURITY . 81.
... seem to demonstrate how necessary it is to be guarded against it . Lord Kaimes speaks of the comedies of Aristo- phanes " wallowing in looseness and detrac- tion , " ( which is moreover a false metaphor E 5 PURITY . 81.
Side 82
... metaphor ; ) of " the pushing genius of a nation ; of a na- tion being devoid of bowels , " & c . The follow- ing phrase is surely intolerably low for serious composition : " To imagine that the gratifying ́of any sense , or the ...
... metaphor ; ) of " the pushing genius of a nation ; of a na- tion being devoid of bowels , " & c . The follow- ing phrase is surely intolerably low for serious composition : " To imagine that the gratifying ́of any sense , or the ...
Side 142
... metaphors and comparisons . Figurative language , it is obvious , must de- pend upon the principle of association , and of the three relations cause and effect , contiguity , and resemblance ; the latter is the most fertile in the ...
... metaphors and comparisons . Figurative language , it is obvious , must de- pend upon the principle of association , and of the three relations cause and effect , contiguity , and resemblance ; the latter is the most fertile in the ...
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