Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Part 1Johns Hopkins University, 1901 - 49 pages |
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... verbs , -judicial verbs , -ovvaywviceolai , -verbs of wishing , —ἀποθνήσκειν . — Personifying adjectives . — ὑπό with non- personal words . PERIPHRASIS , • • Use in invective , —in eulogy , —in expressions of feeling , -with opyń , -for ...
... verbs , -judicial verbs , -ovvaywviceolai , -verbs of wishing , —ἀποθνήσκειν . — Personifying adjectives . — ὑπό with non- personal words . PERIPHRASIS , • • Use in invective , —in eulogy , —in expressions of feeling , -with opyń , -for ...
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... 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 always involved . This vivid conception is commonly lost ...
... 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 always involved . This vivid conception is commonly lost ...
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... verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An affection or disposition of the mind stands out so prominently that it appears to be the real agent and to play the part of the person , as Liv . 21 , 8 hinc spes , hinc desperatio animos irritat . ( 2 ) ...
... verbs of action : - ( 1 ) An affection or disposition of the mind stands out so prominently that it appears to be the real agent and to play the part of the person , as Liv . 21 , 8 hinc spes , hinc desperatio animos irritat . ( 2 ) ...
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... verbs of action , which are found in the genuine works of the Attic Orators and in Thukydides , and by pointing out , so far as possible , their stylistic effect . In determin- ing the question of genuineness I have followed the ...
... verbs of action , which are found in the genuine works of the Attic Orators and in Thukydides , and by pointing out , so far as possible , their stylistic effect . In determin- ing the question of genuineness I have followed the ...
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... verbs , have become thoroughly trite . All such examples may be most conveniently arranged according to verbs , with a view to showing the classes of verbs which are most frequent in this use ( Part II ) . It need scarcely be said that ...
... verbs , have become thoroughly trite . All such examples may be most conveniently arranged according to verbs , with a view to showing the classes of verbs which are most frequent in this use ( Part II ) . It need scarcely be said that ...
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