The Characteristics and Laws of Figurative Language: Designed for Use in Bible Classes, Schools, and CollegesF. Knight, 1854 - 306 páginas |
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... . " SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED • 174 • 184 229 66 66 XVII . MUSICAL FEET , AND THE MODULATION OF VERSE 269 XVIII . THE IMPORTANCE OF A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF VERSIFICATION • · 287 PREFACE . THE views presented in the ensuing work -
... . " SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED • 174 • 184 229 66 66 XVII . MUSICAL FEET , AND THE MODULATION OF VERSE 269 XVIII . THE IMPORTANCE OF A KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF VERSIFICATION • · 287 PREFACE . THE views presented in the ensuing work -
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... feet and the modulation of verse , should be studied 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 ...
... feet and the modulation of verse , should be studied 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 ...
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... feet to glowing brass in brilliancy ; and his voice to the sound of a trumpet . Man is compared to the beasts that perish ( Ps . xlix . 20 ) ; his tongue to a sharp razor ( Ps . lii . 2 ) ; his counsels to deep water ( Prov . xx . 5 ) ...
... feet to glowing brass in brilliancy ; and his voice to the sound of a trumpet . Man is compared to the beasts that perish ( Ps . xlix . 20 ) ; his tongue to a sharp razor ( Ps . lii . 2 ) ; his counsels to deep water ( Prov . xx . 5 ) ...
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... feet is the stanza from Scott formed ? Of what feet is the verse formed , " Like a boat on the wave " ? In order to familiarize learners still further with the figure , and prepare them to employ it in conversation and writing , the ...
... feet is the stanza from Scott formed ? Of what feet is the verse formed , " Like a boat on the wave " ? In order to familiarize learners still further with the figure , and prepare them to employ it in conversation and writing , the ...
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... feet deep clad In the green sandals of the freshful spring ; His sides arrayed in winter , and his front Shooting aloft the everlasting flame . " SHIEL . Adjectives , also , and participles are often used by the figure , as in some of ...
... feet deep clad In the green sandals of the freshful spring ; His sides arrayed in winter , and his front Shooting aloft the everlasting flame . " SHIEL . Adjectives , also , and participles are often used by the figure , as in some of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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 glory 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 Lord manner Messiah metonymy modulation mountains nations nature night nouns o'er PARADISE LOST peculiar person personification prediction proper prophecy prophet Prosopopoeia Psalm Psalmist repre resemblance rock Saul Scriptures sense SHAKSPEARE 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
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Página 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.
Página 135 - O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
Página 280 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 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...
Página 118 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt ; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Página 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.
Página 39 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Página 100 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests: in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm. Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime; The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible: even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 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.
Página 46 - ... evanescence ! Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning! Why should this worthless tegument endure, If its undying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue ; that, when both must sever.