Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... chiefly for Latin authors . Nägelsbach's discussion of Latin usage in his Lateinische Stilistik , p . 570 ff . , is a standard one , and the main outlines of his treatment may be briefly reproduced here . Nägelsbach treats the use of ...
... chiefly for Latin authors . Nägelsbach's discussion of Latin usage in his Lateinische Stilistik , p . 570 ff . , is a standard one , and the main outlines of his treatment may be briefly reproduced here . Nägelsbach treats the use of ...
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... chiefly the formal side of the use . The greater number still belong to more elevated language , but many , especially in con- nection with certain classes of verbs , have become thoroughly trite . All such examples may be most ...
... chiefly the formal side of the use . The greater number still belong to more elevated language , but many , especially in con- nection with certain classes of verbs , have become thoroughly trite . All such examples may be most ...
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... chiefly from epic and tragic poetry , and which flourishes in the more elevated styles . A poetical color , a rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving ...
... chiefly from epic and tragic poetry , and which flourishes in the more elevated styles . A poetical color , a rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving ...
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... . This effect is very largely lost when άoyer has the trite meaning ' be the case with , be the way with ' , chiefly in periphrases for the person , as Ar . Nub . 234 πάσχει δὲ PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 9.
... . This effect is very largely lost when άoyer has the trite meaning ' be the case with , be the way with ' , chiefly in periphrases for the person , as Ar . Nub . 234 πάσχει δὲ PERSONIFICATION AND USE OF ABSTRACT SUBJECTS 9.
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... chiefly by the familiar concrete terms which it employs , often with a species of homely personification . ( 2 ) The legal language seen in the free use of vóμos and similar juridical terms . ( 3 ) The learned language occupied with ...
... chiefly by the familiar concrete terms which it employs , often with a species of homely personification . ( 2 ) The legal language seen in the free use of vóμos and similar juridical terms . ( 3 ) The learned language occupied with ...
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