Illustrations of the tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin, and English poets, with an intr. essay, by J.F. BoyesJohn Frederick Boyes 1842 |
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... metaphor , espe- cially when contrasted with the Latin and English . In justification of my design , I will begin by ob- serving , that If there is one faculty in our mental constitution to the exercise of which the most im- portant ...
... metaphor , espe- cially when contrasted with the Latin and English . In justification of my design , I will begin by ob- serving , that If there is one faculty in our mental constitution to the exercise of which the most im- portant ...
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... case of any other writer , we should at once pronounce to be copied from the Greeks . It is this flexibility , together with his unequalled command of metaphor , which gives him so great a power xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... case of any other writer , we should at once pronounce to be copied from the Greeks . It is this flexibility , together with his unequalled command of metaphor , which gives him so great a power xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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John Frederick Boyes. of metaphor , which gives him so great a power over the management of the ethical maxim ; in the fre- quency of the use of which , though perhaps not in the manner , he again comes nearer to the ancient tragedians ...
John Frederick Boyes. of metaphor , which gives him so great a power over the management of the ethical maxim ; in the fre- quency of the use of which , though perhaps not in the manner , he again comes nearer to the ancient tragedians ...
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... metaphorical ex- pression , or an occasional repartee . The more in- tensely passionate tragedies in our language are in- deed in many of their subjects akin to those of Eschylus and Sophocles , but in manner there is generally a ...
... metaphorical ex- pression , or an occasional repartee . The more in- tensely passionate tragedies in our language are in- deed in many of their subjects akin to those of Eschylus and Sophocles , but in manner there is generally a ...
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... metaphor is concerned , m Such , I mean , as that of the substantive in immediate connection with its opposite ; of the same substantive in different cases ; of the verb , whether transitive or neuter , with its cognate substantive ; of ...
... metaphor is concerned , m Such , I mean , as that of the substantive in immediate connection with its opposite ; of the same substantive in different cases ; of the verb , whether transitive or neuter , with its cognate substantive ; of ...
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Seite 16 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary...
Seite 37 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Seite 15 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Seite 25 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which, when rent, The earth is cover'd thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Seite 12 - Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shall not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Seite 34 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite xxvi - He is our cousin, cousin ; but 'tis doubt, When time shall call him home from banishment, Whether our kinsman come to see his friends. Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and Green, Observ'd his courtship to the common people : — • How he did seem to dive into their hearts, With humble and familiar courtesy ; What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles, And patient under bearing- of his fortune, As 'twere, to banish their affects with him.
Seite 3 - Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms, and defend her fruit, From the rash hand of bold Incontinence.
Seite 12 - Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Seite 17 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence.