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... Figures of Speech Antithesis Interrogation and Exclamation Vision Climax 220888INRUUAU ~~ 5- 64 72 76 89 96 107 113 116 117 118 119 General Characters of Style . Diffuse , Concise , Fee- ble , Nervous , Dry , Plain , Neat , Elegant ...
... Figures of Speech Antithesis Interrogation and Exclamation Vision Climax 220888INRUUAU ~~ 5- 64 72 76 89 96 107 113 116 117 118 119 General Characters of Style . Diffuse , Concise , Fee- ble , Nervous , Dry , Plain , Neat , Elegant ...
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... Figures of Speech Antithesis Interrogation and Exclamation Vision Climax PAGE . 82-8OSINRUMAKND UNF 101 107 108 - 113 116 117 118 119 General Characters of Style . Diffuse , Concise , Fee- ble , Nervous , Dry , Plain , Neat , Elegant ...
... Figures of Speech Antithesis Interrogation and Exclamation Vision Climax PAGE . 82-8OSINRUMAKND UNF 101 107 108 - 113 116 117 118 119 General Characters of Style . Diffuse , Concise , Fee- ble , Nervous , Dry , Plain , Neat , Elegant ...
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... figures of bodies ap- pear more beautiful than others ; on further enquiry , we discover that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty , which we discern in them ; but , when ...
... figures of bodies ap- pear more beautiful than others ; on further enquiry , we discover that the regularity of some figures , and the graceful variety of others , are the foundation of the beauty , which we discern in them ; but , when ...
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... poet con- cludes with personifying the mountain under this figure , " Eructans viscera cum gemitu " - " belching up its bowels with a groan ; " which Je by making the mountain resemble a sick or drunken 334 34 Sublimity in Writing .
... poet con- cludes with personifying the mountain under this figure , " Eructans viscera cum gemitu " - " belching up its bowels with a groan ; " which Je by making the mountain resemble a sick or drunken 334 34 Sublimity in Writing .
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... figure it makes in a poem of sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity of taste , selected it for the principal cir- cumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr Arbuthnot humourously observes , repre ...
... figure it makes in a poem of sir Richard Blackmore ; who , through an extravagant per- versity of taste , selected it for the principal cir- cumstance in his description ; and thereby , as Dr Arbuthnot humourously observes , repre ...
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