Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... Greek or Latin , it adds dignity to the style , and if an abstract subject is employed with a verb of action , the effect is still more marked . The reason for this is that originally when non - personal subjects were asso- ciated with ...
... Greek or Latin , it adds dignity to the style , and if an abstract subject is employed with a verb of action , the effect is still more marked . The reason for this is that originally when non - personal subjects were asso- ciated with ...
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... Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of examples appears to show that the usage of many Greek authors in this respect is more moderate than that of any Latin author . In the present dissertation I shall attempt to ...
... Greek use of abstract subjects , although a collection of examples appears to show that the usage of many Greek authors in this respect is more moderate than that of any Latin author . In the present dissertation I shall attempt to ...
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... Greek abstract subject is far more often than in modern 1 On the stylistic effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX , 111 : ' The abstract noun does not go into details , has less sympathy and therefore ...
... Greek abstract subject is far more often than in modern 1 On the stylistic effect of the articular inf . , see Prof. Gildersleeve , A. J. P. , XX , 111 : ' The abstract noun does not go into details , has less sympathy and therefore ...
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... Greeks as divine beings endowed with personal agency , as we may see in the mythological personification of the river Skamandros in Homer , Ø 212 ff . This mythological conception does not disap- pear altogether from the general Greek ...
... Greeks as divine beings endowed with personal agency , as we may see in the mythological personification of the river Skamandros in Homer , Ø 212 ff . This mythological conception does not disap- pear altogether from the general Greek ...
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... Greek language . This use occurs most naturally I. The Popular in the special language of the various arts and professions , but soon passes over in part into the common literary language , where it is often enlarged and extended under ...
... Greek language . This use occurs most naturally I. The Popular in the special language of the various arts and professions , but soon passes over in part into the common literary language , where it is often enlarged and extended under ...
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