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abstract adjectives altho Ancient Rome arbitrary symbols Arcturus Aristotle association by similarity bass drum consciousness dance of shadows dark death deep foundations definition doth earth elementary sounds emotions enchanted my sight energy expression faculties fancy figures of speech fine frenzy fire give hearer Hell Herbert Spencer Hohenlinden human import humor imagination imitative impressive Ingersoll language light literary lord loudness Matthew Arnold meaning mercy endureth forever metaphor Milton mind nature nerve night onomatopic oral sounds oratory pitch pleasure poet poetic figure poetic lines poetry potential potentry properties of sound qualify reason rhythm rhythmical rime sense sensuous Shakespeare signs of ideas speaking speech stars stimulate substance of dreams surprizing sweet syllables Synecdoche thee things thou thought exprest tion tonal tone tone-color blends tro-potentry trochaic trochee trope true understanding utterance veil verse voice vowel webwork words
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Page 186 - Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
Page 136 - 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 139 - 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 204 - 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 208 - 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 88 - 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 88 - 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 85 - 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 200 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 187 - And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.