Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I( -II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 191
... speech merely a sprightly imagination will advance them to the former clafs ; with a plain reader they will remain in the latter . Having thus at large explained the prefent figure , its different kinds , and the principles upon which ...
... speech merely a sprightly imagination will advance them to the former clafs ; with a plain reader they will remain in the latter . Having thus at large explained the prefent figure , its different kinds , and the principles upon which ...
Page 219
... term to its proper fenfe , and to fepa- rate from it things that are diftinguifhed by different names . An allegory differs from a metaphor ; and what what I would choofe to call a figure of speech SECT . VI . 219 Figures .
... term to its proper fenfe , and to fepa- rate from it things that are diftinguifhed by different names . An allegory differs from a metaphor ; and what what I would choofe to call a figure of speech SECT . VI . 219 Figures .
Page 220
... speech , differs from both . 1 proceed to explain thefe differences . A metaphor is defined above to be an act of the imagination , figuring one thing to be another . An allegory requires no fuch operation , nor is one thing figured to ...
... speech , differs from both . 1 proceed to explain thefe differences . A metaphor is defined above to be an act of the imagination , figuring one thing to be another . An allegory requires no fuch operation , nor is one thing figured to ...
Page 236
... Speech . VII . IN the fection immediately foregoing , a fig . ure of fpeech is defined , " The ufing a word in a fense different from what is proper to it ; " and the new or uncommon fenfe of the word is termed the figurative fenfe ...
... Speech . VII . IN the fection immediately foregoing , a fig . ure of fpeech is defined , " The ufing a word in a fense different from what is proper to it ; " and the new or uncommon fenfe of the word is termed the figurative fenfe ...
Page 239
... speech . Several other beauties peculiar to one or other fort , I fhall have occafion to remark af terward . Not only fubjects , but qualities , actions , effects , may be expreffed figuratively . Thus , as to fubjects , the gates of ...
... speech . Several other beauties peculiar to one or other fort , I fhall have occafion to remark af terward . Not only fubjects , but qualities , actions , effects , may be expreffed figuratively . Thus , as to fubjects , the gates of ...
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