Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... bold images . - Concrete objects in nature personified by the poets . — πόλις . — Ελλάς and other names of countries . - Collective use of these names in Thuk . - Personifi- cation of general abstract notions . - Its origin . - Its use ...
... bold images . - Concrete objects in nature personified by the poets . — πόλις . — Ελλάς and other names of countries . - Collective use of these names in Thuk . - Personifi- cation of general abstract notions . - Its origin . - Its use ...
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... . It will be observed that only those cases of personification are included under the present class in which the individual writer aims at bold and vivid imagery . The cases in PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 3.
... . It will be observed that only those cases of personification are included under the present class in which the individual writer aims at bold and vivid imagery . The cases in PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 3.
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Robert Somerville Radford. aims at bold and vivid imagery . The cases in which the popular or scientific language freely employs personification ( vópos , λóros , etc. ) fall under the preceding class . ( 4 ) Cases in which the part of ...
Robert Somerville Radford. aims at bold and vivid imagery . The cases in which the popular or scientific language freely employs personification ( vópos , λóros , etc. ) fall under the preceding class . ( 4 ) Cases in which the part of ...
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... bold imagery and poetic ornament . Somewhat different is the meaning of the large average in Demosthenes , which is intimately connected with the orator's vigor and sus- tained intensity . Aischines has an average apparently a trifle ...
... bold imagery and poetic ornament . Somewhat different is the meaning of the large average in Demosthenes , which is intimately connected with the orator's vigor and sus- tained intensity . Aischines has an average apparently a trifle ...
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... bold ; still more striking is the personification in the following : 4 , 100 , 1 ἄλλῳ τε τρόπῳ πειράσαντες καὶ μηχανὴν προσήγαγον , ἤπερ εἷλεν αὐτό ( sc . τὸ τείχισμα ) , ( ' finally they brought up an engine of war which took the fort ...
... bold ; still more striking is the personification in the following : 4 , 100 , 1 ἄλλῳ τε τρόπῳ πειράσαντες καὶ μηχανὴν προσήγαγον , ἤπερ εἷλεν αὐτό ( sc . τὸ τείχισμα ) , ( ' finally they brought up an engine of war which took the fort ...
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