The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative Language: Designed for Use in Bible Classes, Schools, and CollegesF. Knight, 1854 - 306 pages |
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... beauty to the scene through which it passes ; and the glory of the Gentiles , like an overflowing " stream " that is full to the banks , moving forward with a resistless current , and bearing on its bosom a rich commerce . ( Isaiah lxvi ...
... beauty to the scene through which it passes ; and the glory of the Gentiles , like an overflowing " stream " that is full to the banks , moving forward with a resistless current , and bearing on its bosom a rich commerce . ( Isaiah lxvi ...
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... beauty . " " The dawning shines MOORE LONGFELLOW . Above the misty mountains , and a hue Of vermil blushes in the cloudless blue , Like health disporting on the downy cheek : It is time's fairest moment . As a dove , Shading the earth ...
... beauty . " " The dawning shines MOORE LONGFELLOW . Above the misty mountains , and a hue Of vermil blushes in the cloudless blue , Like health disporting on the downy cheek : It is time's fairest moment . As a dove , Shading the earth ...
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... beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies , And all that's best of dark and light Meet in her aspect and her eyes . " 66 SHAKSPEARE . As when devouring flames some forest seize On the high mountains , splendid from ...
... beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies , And all that's best of dark and light Meet in her aspect and her eyes . " 66 SHAKSPEARE . As when devouring flames some forest seize On the high mountains , splendid from ...
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... beauty . What is a simile ? How many classes of similes are there ? How do they differ ? Which is the most elegant , and contributes most to dignify and adorn a composition ? What is the first chief characteristic of a comparison ? What ...
... beauty . What is a simile ? How many classes of similes are there ? How do they differ ? Which is the most elegant , and contributes most to dignify and adorn a composition ? What is the first chief characteristic of a comparison ? What ...
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... beauty that resembles a smile . 6. The terms , therefore , that are used by this figure always carry with them their literal sense , not a different or modified meaning . Thus when the valleys are said to laugh , and the floods to clap ...
... beauty that resembles a smile . 6. The terms , therefore , that are used by this figure always carry with them their literal sense , not a different or modified meaning . Thus when the valleys are said to laugh , and the floods to clap ...
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addressed adjective affirmation agents or objects allegory Amphibrach amphimacer analogous acts anapests apostrophe ascribed Assyria beauty Behold blank verse cęsura chap CHAPTER Christ clouds comparison David deliverance denominated denote descendants destruction earth Edom elliptical metaphor employed to represent enemies exerted exhibited expression eyes feet flower following passage foreshow Gentiles give glory God's hand hath heaven hymn Hypocatastasis iambics indicate interposition Isaiah Israel Israelites Jehovah Jerusalem Judah Judea land language laws of figures light lines literal lofty Lord manner Messiah metonymy mountains nations nature night nouns o'er PARADISE LOST peculiar person personification prediction proper prophecy prophet Psalm Psalmist repre resemblance rock Saul Scriptures sense SHAKSPEARE Shechem shield signify simile smile song Spirit spondee subjects substituted sweet syllable symbols synecdoche thee theophany things thou throne tion trees trochee unto verbs verse vine vineyard visible wind word Zion
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Page 118 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 139 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 241 - But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth : and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 17 - And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Page 132 - LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. "And many people shall go and say, 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths:' for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Page 255 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Page 99 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 68 - From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it ; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
Page 104 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 16 - The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. "Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. "They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 15 to shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.