Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... poetical fancy , but there are certain spheres of writing in which no prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he distinguishes four classes of abstract subjects which are freely associated with verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An ...
... poetical fancy , but there are certain spheres of writing in which no prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he distinguishes four classes of abstract subjects which are freely associated with verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An ...
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... poetical color , a rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides ...
... poetical color , a rhetorical warmth remains , which has largely faded out in English . This can best be seen from a statistical table , giving the whole use of non - personal subjects in the Orators , Herodotos and Thukydides ...
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... poetical excess . It is difficult to compare Isokrates ' use directly with that of the other orators ; his pro- fessional treatment of rhetoric , philosophy and politics causes him to employ much of the freedom of technical language ...
... poetical excess . It is difficult to compare Isokrates ' use directly with that of the other orators ; his pro- fessional treatment of rhetoric , philosophy and politics causes him to employ much of the freedom of technical language ...
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... poetical and fanciful personifications at every turn . Hence the abstract sub- ject and poetical diction are often found together , as Ant . 1 , 13 δίκη δὲ κυβερνήσειεν ( Blass I , p . 130 ) ; And . 3 , 7 ἡ εἰρήνη τὸν δῆμον úniòv pε ...
... poetical and fanciful personifications at every turn . Hence the abstract sub- ject and poetical diction are often found together , as Ant . 1 , 13 δίκη δὲ κυβερνήσειεν ( Blass I , p . 130 ) ; And . 3 , 7 ἡ εἰρήνη τὸν δῆμον úniòv pε ...
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... poetical species of personification which attributes human actions and passions to inanimate objects in nature ( see below under Personification , I ) . With the exception of a single speech of Demosthenes , which deals with the ...
... poetical species of personification which attributes human actions and passions to inanimate objects in nature ( see below under Personification , I ) . With the exception of a single speech of Demosthenes , which deals with the ...
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