The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative LanguageF. Knight, 1855 - 306 pages |
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... immediately after the introduction , that their principles may be applied by the learner to the passages from the poets that occur in the chapters on the figures . CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF FIGURES- THEIR TWO CLASSES - VI PREFACE .
... immediately after the introduction , that their principles may be applied by the learner to the passages from the poets that occur in the chapters on the figures . CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF FIGURES- THEIR TWO CLASSES - VI PREFACE .
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... applied . Thus in the sentence- the clouds fly - there is a figure in the use of the verb , which properly denotes the movement of a bird or insect by its wings , but is applied by a metaphor to the clouds borne forward by the wind , to ...
... applied . Thus in the sentence- the clouds fly - there is a figure in the use of the verb , which properly denotes the movement of a bird or insect by its wings , but is applied by a metaphor to the clouds borne forward by the wind , to ...
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... applied being always the agents or subjects of the acts or qualities which they ascribe to them ; while sym- bols , on the other hand , instead of mere names or predicates of agents or objects , are themselves agents , objects ...
... applied being always the agents or subjects of the acts or qualities which they ascribe to them ; while sym- bols , on the other hand , instead of mere names or predicates of agents or objects , are themselves agents , objects ...
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... Metaphors , like comparisons , are of two kinds . In the first , that to which the figure is applied , is directly declared to be that , of which the word used by the figure is the proper name ; as " God is 32 THE METAPHOR .
... Metaphors , like comparisons , are of two kinds . In the first , that to which the figure is applied , is directly declared to be that , of which the word used by the figure is the proper name ; as " God is 32 THE METAPHOR .
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... applied , are expressly named as the subject of the metaphor . In the second class , there is an ellipsis of the direct affirmation that the person or object to which the figure is applied , is that which the term used by the metaphor ...
... applied , are expressly named as the subject of the metaphor . In the second class , there is an ellipsis of the direct affirmation that the person or object to which the figure is applied , is that which the term used by the metaphor ...
Common terms and phrases
addressed adjective affirmation agents or objects allegory Amphibrach amphimacer analogous acts anapests apostrophe ascribed Assyria beauty Behold blank verse cæsura 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 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 modulation 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
Popular passages
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 57 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
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 133 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into...
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 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 Gush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
Page 305 - I have fought my way through; I have finished the work thou didst give me to do!" O that each from his Lord may receive the glad word, "Well and faithfully done! Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne!
Page 49 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
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.
Page 272 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...