Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and American Authorship, from Shakespeare to the Present Time, Together with Definitions, Notes, Analyses, and Glossary as an Aid to Systematic Literary Study, for Use in High and Normal Schools, Academies, Seminaries, &cHarper & Brothers, 1897 - 638 páginas |
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... point , and was content with the object itself , without seeking to go very far beneath the surface . Byron , on the other hand , loved to seize the striking features in his scenes , and , after mentioning these in a bold and graphic ...
... point , and was content with the object itself , without seeking to go very far beneath the surface . Byron , on the other hand , loved to seize the striking features in his scenes , and , after mentioning these in a bold and graphic ...
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... points of interest - first , how the poet himself wrote the name , and , secondly , how it was printed under his eye . Touching the first point , Sir Frederic Madden has shown that in the acknowledged genuine signatures in existence ...
... points of interest - first , how the poet himself wrote the name , and , secondly , how it was printed under his eye . Touching the first point , Sir Frederic Madden has shown that in the acknowledged genuine signatures in existence ...
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... Point out subsequent uses of the word , and show how the irony in- creases . 94. Did this , etc. What is the effect of using the interrogative form here ? Point out another instance of its use in the same speech . 108. Remark on the ...
... Point out subsequent uses of the word , and show how the irony in- creases . 94. Did this , etc. What is the effect of using the interrogative form here ? Point out another instance of its use in the same speech . 108. Remark on the ...
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... intensive . 211. Revenge ... slay . 215. We'll hear . . . die . effect of repeating " we'll ? " Supply the ellipsis . 66 Point out the figure . ( See Def . 33. ) What is the Antony . Good friends , sweet friends , let me 14 SHAKESPEARE .
... intensive . 211. Revenge ... slay . 215. We'll hear . . . die . effect of repeating " we'll ? " Supply the ellipsis . 66 Point out the figure . ( See Def . 33. ) What is the Antony . Good friends , sweet friends , let me 14 SHAKESPEARE .
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... Point out these ex- ceptions . Why does Shakespeare here use so large a proportion of native words ? -Point out an example of alliteration ( see Def . 37 ) in this speech . 218. such a sudden flood of mutiny . From what is the metaphor ...
... Point out these ex- ceptions . Why does Shakespeare here use so large a proportion of native words ? -Point out an example of alliteration ( see Def . 37 ) in this speech . 218. such a sudden flood of mutiny . From what is the metaphor ...
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Términos y frases comunes
abbey alliteration Analyze this sentence Anglo-Saxon Aurelian beauty Brutus Cæsar called character Cratchit dark death delight Dryden earth Edward the Confessor effect English epithet Etymology Explain expression eyes feelings figure of speech fire genius George Eliot give grace Grammatical construction hand hath hear heart heaven honorable human humor INTRODUCTION.-The Julius Cæsar kind of sentence king L'Allegro language light LITERARY ANALYSIS living look Lord manner meaning ment metaphor Milton mind nature never night o'er Observe Odenathus Palmyra paragraph phrase pleasure pleonasm poem poet poetry Point pride prose order rhetorically round Saracen scene Scrooge sense Shakespeare Shylock Sir Launfal Sir Roger smile soul sound spirit stanza style Supply the ellipsis sweet synecdoche synonymous tence Tetricus thee things thou thought Tiny Tim tion tomb truth verb voice words writing Zenobia
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Página 515 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Página 408 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world ; with kings, The powerful of the earth, — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Página 409 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound, Save his own dashings— yet — the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Página 197 - Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 243 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 71 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 6 - If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand, why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer,— Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves; than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Página 295 - What was so fugitive ! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction : not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest ; Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood...
Página 408 - Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace...
Página 397 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.