Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time ... : for Use in High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminaries, EtcHarper & Bros., 1886 - 638 páginas |
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... a furrow , a row ( from vertere , to turn ) ; hence a metrical line , and , by an extension of meaning , metrical composition . 6. Description , or descriptive writing , is that kind xii STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE .
... a furrow , a row ( from vertere , to turn ) ; hence a metrical line , and , by an extension of meaning , metrical composition . 6. Description , or descriptive writing , is that kind xii STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE .
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... turns up the land , SO Known predicate . the ship Subject whose predicate is unknown . acts on the sea . Unknown predicate . III . Mixed Metaphors . - It is a well - known canon of the meta- phor that in the same metaphor figures should ...
... turns up the land , SO Known predicate . the ship Subject whose predicate is unknown . acts on the sea . Unknown predicate . III . Mixed Metaphors . - It is a well - known canon of the meta- phor that in the same metaphor figures should ...
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... turn , thou bearest thy rider along ; Now like our hackney or draught horse , serving our commonest uses , Now bearing grandly the poet , Pegasus - like , to the sky . 11. Thou art not prisoned in fixed rules , thou art no slave to a ...
... turn , thou bearest thy rider along ; Now like our hackney or draught horse , serving our commonest uses , Now bearing grandly the poet , Pegasus - like , to the sky . 11. Thou art not prisoned in fixed rules , thou art no slave to a ...
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... " is the object of follow . 162. discharge the money : that is , the money due , the debt . 168. truth , honor , honesty . 169. Wrest , turn aside . 175 180 Shall I lay perjury upon my soul ? No , MERCHANT OF VENICE . 23 133.
... " is the object of follow . 162. discharge the money : that is , the money due , the debt . 168. truth , honor , honesty . 169. Wrest , turn aside . 175 180 Shall I lay perjury upon my soul ? No , MERCHANT OF VENICE . 23 133.
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... turn But in the estimation of a hair- Thou diest , and all thy goods are confiscate . Gratiano . A second Daniel , a Daniel , Jew ! Now , infidel , I have you on the hip . Portia . Why doth the Jew pause ? -Take thy forfeiture . Shylock ...
... turn But in the estimation of a hair- Thou diest , and all thy goods are confiscate . Gratiano . A second Daniel , a Daniel , Jew ! Now , infidel , I have you on the hip . Portia . Why doth the Jew pause ? -Take thy forfeiture . Shylock ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbey Absalom and Achitophel Addison Analyze this sentence Anglo-Saxon Antony Aurelian behold Brutus Cæsar called death divine doth Dryden Duke Edward the Confessor England English Essay etymology expression figure of speech give glory grace grammatically Greek hand hath hear heart heaven honorable Hudibras humor INTRODUCTION.-The Julius Cæsar kind of sentence king knight L'Allegro language learned LITERARY ANALYSIS living look Lord manner Mark Antony meaning metaphor metaphysical poets Milton mind modern nature never noble noun o'er Observe Odenathus paragraph phrase Pindar pleasure pleonasm poem poet poetry Point Pope Portia praise pride prose rhetorically Roger de Coverley Roman scene sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Roger sometimes soul sound speak spirit stanza style Supply the ellipsis sweet thee things Third Citizen thou thought tion tomb verb walk whole words writing Zenobia
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Página 349 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 206 - 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.
Página 304 - The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won, Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 16 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; 'tis his will: Let but the commons hear this testament — Which pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, ' Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
Página 521 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Página 296 - 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.
Página 14 - Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Página 249 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 292 - 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
Página 417 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.