Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... style . - Analysis of Demosthenic usage . - Illustrative examples . - The verb TάoxEIV . NATURAL OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL LANGUAGE , Concrete substantives . - Documentary words with verbs of say- ing . Familiar ...
... style . - Analysis of Demosthenic usage . - Illustrative examples . - The verb TάoxEIV . NATURAL OBJECTS AND FORCES , · POPULAR AND TECHNICAL LANGUAGE , Concrete substantives . - Documentary words with verbs of say- ing . Familiar ...
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... 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 verbs of action , personification was ...
... 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 verbs of action , personification was ...
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... styles and kinds of composition . This personification , according to Nägelsbach , is akin , on the whole , to the poetical fancy , but there are certain spheres of writing in which no prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he ...
... styles and kinds of composition . This personification , according to Nägelsbach , is akin , on the whole , to the poetical fancy , but there are certain spheres of writing in which no prose author has refrained from its use . Hence he ...
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... style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the 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 ...
... style . Method of Procedure . No special examination has hitherto been made of the 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 ...
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... Style . 1 These are chiefly verbs of motion , verbs of showing , of harming and helping , of grieving , of needing , of availing and being strong , of making and causing . Finally , an exception must be made also for many 4 ...
... Style . 1 These are chiefly verbs of motion , verbs of showing , of harming and helping , of grieving , of needing , of availing and being strong , of making and causing . Finally , an exception must be made also for many 4 ...
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