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Pagina 165
... appear , he has engraved upon his mind . " " " " When the comparison implied in a metaphor is apt , that is , people not only get delight from it , but they use it so that it becomes part of the language . The metaphor may retain its ...
... appear , he has engraved upon his mind . " " " " When the comparison implied in a metaphor is apt , that is , people not only get delight from it , but they use it so that it becomes part of the language . The metaphor may retain its ...
Pagina 203
... appears on the last element only : we have girl clerks , boy messengers , bookcases , coach - houses , apple - trees . Yet we find instances where both elements take the sign . This appears to be invariably so when man or woman is the ...
... appears on the last element only : we have girl clerks , boy messengers , bookcases , coach - houses , apple - trees . Yet we find instances where both elements take the sign . This appears to be invariably so when man or woman is the ...
Pagina 276
... appears that , in the competition for relative frequency , paralleled and accommodation run one another close . The doubling of the last I in paralleled and the giving to accommodation only a single m are both deplorably frequent ...
... appears that , in the competition for relative frequency , paralleled and accommodation run one another close . The doubling of the last I in paralleled and the giving to accommodation only a single m are both deplorably frequent ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing