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 173
... metaphorical fenfe , and an ificle is cold in a proper fenfe and this verbal refemblance , in the hurry and glow of compofing , has been thought a fufficient foundation for the fimile . Such phantom fimiles are mere witticifms , which ...
... metaphorical fenfe , and an ificle is cold in a proper fenfe and this verbal refemblance , in the hurry and glow of compofing , has been thought a fufficient foundation for the fimile . Such phantom fimiles are mere witticifms , which ...
Page 217
... Metaphor and Allegory . A METAPHOR differs from a fimile , in form only , not in fubftance : in a fimile , the two - fubjects are kept diftinct in the expreffion , as well as in the thought ; in a metaphor , the two fubjects are kept ...
... Metaphor and Allegory . A METAPHOR differs from a fimile , in form only , not in fubftance : in a fimile , the two - fubjects are kept diftinct in the expreffion , as well as in the thought ; in a metaphor , the two fubjects are kept ...
Page 218
... metaphor , in the following manner : Edward's fev'n fons , whereof thyfelf art one , Were fev'n fair branches fpringing from one root : Some of thefe branches by the deft'nies cut : But Thomas , my dear lord , my life , my Glo'fter ...
... metaphor , in the following manner : Edward's fev'n fons , whereof thyfelf art one , Were fev'n fair branches fpringing from one root : Some of thefe branches by the deft'nies cut : But Thomas , my dear lord , my life , my Glo'fter ...
Page 219
... metaphor has been used in a more extenfive fenfe than I give it ; but I thought it of confequence , in a difquifition of fome intricacy , to confine the term to its proper fenfe , and to fepa- rate from it things that are diftinguifhed ...
... metaphor has been used in a more extenfive fenfe than I give it ; but I thought it of confequence , in a difquifition of fome intricacy , to confine the term to its proper fenfe , and to fepa- rate from it things that are diftinguifhed ...
Page 220
... 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 be another : it confifts in choofing a fub- ject having properties or ...
... 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 be another : it confifts in choofing a fub- ject having properties or ...
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