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abstract adjectives Alalus altho animals arbitrary symbols Aristotle articulate speech artistic trope become brute concrete consciousness dark death dream earth Edmond Holmes effect emotions energy experience expression eyes feeling figures of speech fine frenzy frenzy give hearer Hell Herbert Spencer iambic iambus imagination imitative Ingersoll insensuous thought language Leigh Hunt light literary loudness and duration Matthew Arnold Max Müller meaning mental metaphor Milton mind muscular nature nerve night object onomatopes oral sounds oratory pain passion pitch pleasure poem poet poetic figure poetry potentry properties of sound prose qualify reason rhythm rhythmical rime Shakespeare signs of ideas soul sounds symbolize speaker speaking stimulate surprizing syllables thee things thou thought exprest tick timbre tion tonal tone tone-color blends tro-potentry trochaic trochee trope tropetry true understanding verse vocal voice vowel sounds words
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Page 234 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Page 261 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thce fade away into the forest dim...
Page 184 - THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir: It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.
Page 195 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveler returns, — puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 266 - Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Page 270 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 106 - The Three stood calm and silent. And looked upon the foes. And a great shout of laughter From all the vanguard rose : And forth three chiefs came spurring Before that deep array; To earth they sprang, their swords they drew, And lifted high their shields, and flew To win the narrow way...
Page 104 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 101 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Page 108 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.