Poetics: An Essay on PoetrySmith, Elder, and Company, 1852 - 294 pagina's |
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Pagina 167
... simile ) which are something more than resemblances , which are in fact identities , the same foot - prints of nature traced in different soils . No one who has ever found that when looking at anything shiny - say when his eye is ...
... simile ) which are something more than resemblances , which are in fact identities , the same foot - prints of nature traced in different soils . No one who has ever found that when looking at anything shiny - say when his eye is ...
Pagina 190
... similes can and do in their own way further the object of the first law , namely , in re- presenting place to the mind , they are by no means essential to that end . A few examples may be given to show how , without similitude or ...
... similes can and do in their own way further the object of the first law , namely , in re- presenting place to the mind , they are by no means essential to that end . A few examples may be given to show how , without similitude or ...
Pagina 196
... simile . In thus showing how the idea of place may be con- veyed , I have dwelt upon the fact , that comparison is not essential any more than a staff is essential for walk- ing , or a wand for an augur's marking out the houses of ...
... simile . In thus showing how the idea of place may be con- veyed , I have dwelt upon the fact , that comparison is not essential any more than a staff is essential for walk- ing , or a wand for an augur's marking out the houses of ...
Pagina 200
... Simile and Metaphor . Here , again , the distinction is good , and is not good . In a general way , and so long as we are dealing with extreme instances of simile and of metaphor , it works well ; but when we apply it to doubtful ...
... Simile and Metaphor . Here , again , the distinction is good , and is not good . In a general way , and so long as we are dealing with extreme instances of simile and of metaphor , it works well ; but when we apply it to doubtful ...
Pagina 201
... simile . The simile , however , will be , or ought to be , a virtual metaphor ; and in like manner instances could be given where metaphor is no better than simile , as in Chester- field's couplet , " The dews of the night most ...
... simile . The simile , however , will be , or ought to be , a virtual metaphor ; and in like manner instances could be given where metaphor is no better than simile , as in Chester- field's couplet , " The dews of the night most ...
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