The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative LanguageF. Knight, 1855 - 306 pages |
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... present no hint of the rules by which they are to be interpreted ; and no intimations are found on the pages even of the most recent works on language and interpretation , of the necessity of an accurate understanding of their nature ...
... present no hint of the rules by which they are to be interpreted ; and no intimations are found on the pages even of the most recent works on language and interpretation , of the necessity of an accurate understanding of their nature ...
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... present resemblances to others , comparisons are framed betwixt objects of all classes . Thus agents are compared to agents , acts to acts , qualities to qualities , modes to modes , conditions to conditions , effects to effects ; and ...
... present resemblances to others , comparisons are framed betwixt objects of all classes . Thus agents are compared to agents , acts to acts , qualities to qualities , modes to modes , conditions to conditions , effects to effects ; and ...
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... present The world's great picture softened to the sight ; Nay , kinder far , far more indulgent still , Say thou whose mild dominion's silver key Unlocks our hemisphere , and sets to view Worlds beyond number ; worlds concealed by day ...
... present The world's great picture softened to the sight ; Nay , kinder far , far more indulgent still , Say thou whose mild dominion's silver key Unlocks our hemisphere , and sets to view Worlds beyond number ; worlds concealed by day ...
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... present is in the greatness of the obstacles that are to be overcome , and the hopelessness of the under- taking . In like manner , there is no resemblance in kind between the act of bearing a cross and the performance of a self ...
... present is in the greatness of the obstacles that are to be overcome , and the hopelessness of the under- taking . In like manner , there is no resemblance in kind between the act of bearing a cross and the performance of a self ...
Page 93
... present , and aware of what is taking place . Thus Isaiah , in announcing the visible advent of the Messiah , the earthquake with which the globe is then to be shaken , and the ruin in which all the objects of the vain confidence of the ...
... present , and aware of what is taking place . Thus Isaiah , in announcing the visible advent of the Messiah , the earthquake with which the globe is then to be shaken , and the ruin in which all the objects of the vain confidence of the ...
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...