| Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...opposition to each other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, -yet not dull ; " Strong, without rage ; without o'erllowing, full." , " Good men, in this frail, imperfect state, are often found, not only... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho' deep, yet...dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full; Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, 'Whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost: Thy nobler... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1809 - 330 pages
...opposition to oach other, or with some marked variety, they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, " Tho' deep, yet clear ; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong without rage ; without o'erfiowing, full." " Good rnen, in this frail, imperfect state, are often found, no', only... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...strange, while his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tho' deep yet...dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. /Jeav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost; thy nobler... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...exchange. O could I flow like thee ! and make thy stream my great example, as it is my theme; tbo' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull ; strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. Heav'n her Eridanus no more shall boast, whose fame in thine, like lesser current, 's lost; thy nobler... | |
| Lorenzo Pignotti - Tuscany (Italy) - 1813 - 228 pages
...uno de' più celebri poeti inglesi Deuham , versi tanto giustamente celebrati dai suoi concittadini. Tho' deep yet clear , tho' gentle yet not dull' Strong witho'ut rage, witho'ut overflouring, tuli'. « Quantunque profondo, chiaro ; quantunque placido > « non torpido... | |
| Jonathan Morgan - English language - 1814 - 298 pages
...in apposition should be separated by commas : As, " Paul, the apostle, was an eminent preacher." " Tho" deep, yet clear ; tho" gentle, yet not dull ;...Strong, without rage ; without o'erflowing. full." But proper names, and words closely allied in sense, tlio' in apposition, should not be separated 1... | |
| A. W. Winkelmann - English language - 1816 - 514 pages
...opposition to each other, or with some marked variety; they require to be distinguished by a comma: as, "Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull; Strong, without rage i without o'er/lowing, full." only in union with, but in opposition to, the views and conduct of one... | |
| Filippo Pananti - Africa, North - 1818 - 524 pages
...been described with more force and dignity than in .the celebrated Cooper's Hill of Sir John Denham : Tho' deep yet clear, tho' gentle yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. I have ever been a passionate admirer of running waters, so instrumental in keeping up the communication,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1818 - 158 pages
...founded on the conrast or opposition of two objects. The following example illustrates his figure. • Tho' deep, yet clear; tho' gentle, yet not dull ; Strong, without rage ; without outflowing full." HYPERBOLE. Hyperbole or Exaggeration consists in magnifying an object beyond... | |
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