Lectures on Poetry and General Literature: Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831 |
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... pleonasm . I cannot proceed without reverting for a moment to the wonderful apparition in the third clause , on which the entire issue depends . No real or figurative manifestation of Deity in the Old or New Testament approaches this in ...
... pleonasm . I cannot proceed without reverting for a moment to the wonderful apparition in the third clause , on which the entire issue depends . No real or figurative manifestation of Deity in the Old or New Testament approaches this in ...
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... pleonasm that would hardly have occurred in prose compo- sition , even in the age of Adam , but might be grace- fully adapted to the cadence and character of the most ancient mode of verse . Isaac's benedictions on Esau and Jacob are at ...
... pleonasm that would hardly have occurred in prose compo- sition , even in the age of Adam , but might be grace- fully adapted to the cadence and character of the most ancient mode of verse . Isaac's benedictions on Esau and Jacob are at ...
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... pleonasms in Jacob's reply to Pharaoh's simple question ! - " And Joseph brought in Jacob his father , and set him before Pharaoh ; and Jacob blessed Pha- raoh . 6 " And Pharaoh said unto Jacob , How old art thou ? ' " And Jacob said ...
... pleonasms in Jacob's reply to Pharaoh's simple question ! - " And Joseph brought in Jacob his father , and set him before Pharaoh ; and Jacob blessed Pha- raoh . 6 " And Pharaoh said unto Jacob , How old art thou ? ' " And Jacob said ...
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3d Edit admiration Æneid affections ancient Author beauty blank verse cadence character circumstances colour composition death delight diction Dryden earth eloquence employed English Engravings equally excellence exquisite Faerie Queene fancy Fcap feel Foolscap 8vo genius glory Greece Greek hand harmony heart heaven Henry Kirke White hieroglyphics Homer honour human ideas Iliad images imagination invention Joanna Baillie kind labours Lamech language latter learning less lines literature living Lord Lord Byron LUCY AIKIN ment metre Milton mind modern moral nations nature never original painting Paradise Lost passage passions peculiar perfect perpetual Pisistratus Plates pleonasm poem poet poetical poetry present prose reader rhyme ROBERT SOUTHEY Roman scarcely scene sentiments song soul sound Spenserian stanza spirit splendour stanzas style sublime syllables taste thee theme things thou thought tion tongue truth verse vols whole words writing