English Composition and Rhetoric, Part 2Longmans, Green & Company, 1892 - English language |
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... impressions made by it inconsiderable . At this point , we find ourselves brought face to face with the contrasting couple of generic emotions , —on the one hand , Love , Tender Feeling , Sociability ; on the other , Irascibility ...
... impressions made by it inconsiderable . At this point , we find ourselves brought face to face with the contrasting couple of generic emotions , —on the one hand , Love , Tender Feeling , Sociability ; on the other , Irascibility ...
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... impression rouse the mind's energies . In poetry , as in other attempts to awaken a vast mass of emotion , it is the practice to multiply and unite influential circumstances . ( See NUMBER OF WORDS , p . 32. ) Take the following from ...
... impression rouse the mind's energies . In poetry , as in other attempts to awaken a vast mass of emotion , it is the practice to multiply and unite influential circumstances . ( See NUMBER OF WORDS , p . 32. ) Take the following from ...
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... impression of the fea- tures and aspects of persons , coupled with emotional interest , leads to the transfer of human feelings to Inanimate things . This is named PERSONIFICATION , and enters into all the emotional Qualities . The ...
... impression of the fea- tures and aspects of persons , coupled with emotional interest , leads to the transfer of human feelings to Inanimate things . This is named PERSONIFICATION , and enters into all the emotional Qualities . The ...
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... impressions are weakened by their opposi- tion . But , besides this , there is a distinct pleasure in the feeling of emotional unison , and a corresponding pain when it is conspicuously wanting . In their extreme manifesta- tions , the ...
... impressions are weakened by their opposi- tion . But , besides this , there is a distinct pleasure in the feeling of emotional unison , and a corresponding pain when it is conspicuously wanting . In their extreme manifesta- tions , the ...
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... impression is weak from the want of distinct harmony among the ideas , as well as from the vagueness and exaggeration of the comparisons : - ' As a hundred winds on Morven ; as the streams of a hundred hills ; as clouds fly successive ...
... impression is weak from the want of distinct harmony among the ideas , as well as from the vagueness and exaggeration of the comparisons : - ' As a hundred winds on Morven ; as the streams of a hundred hills ; as clouds fly successive ...
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agreeable Anacreon artistic beauty Beneficent Strength character charm circumstances combination comparison contrast delight delineation depicted diction divine effect elevation embodiment energy epithets erotic Eurydice example exemplified expression eyes figure force friendship genius give grandeur harmony heaven highest Homer human hyperbolical Hyperion ideal Iliad illustrated impression intellectual intensity interest INTERESTING AND UNINTERESTING Julius Cæsar kind language lines literary lofty lovers Maleficent Strength Malevolence malignant mankind Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind modes moral mountain nature ness Neutral Strength objects ocean Ode to Duty pain Paradise Lost parental feeling passage passion Pathos Patroclus personification physical picture pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetic diction poetry pure redeeming reference regard Sappho scene sexes Shakespeare stanza stars strain sublime superiority sweet sympathy Tamburlaine tender emotion Tender Feeling thee theme Theocritus things thou thought tion touches treatment vast vocabulary winds words Wordsworth