This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...this way, it increases the distinctness of the reader's view, and leads, him more fully to feel the force of what is asserted. 3. By leading the mind to trace out illustrative comparisons. Example: " I have felt the bitter satire of his pen." The epithet bitttr is literally applied to that which is an object ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...this way, it increases the distinctness of the reader's view, and leads, him more fully to feel the force of what is asserted. 3. By leading the mind to trace out illustrative comparisons. Example: " I have felt the bitter satire of his pen." The epithet bitttr is literally applied to that which is an object of the sense of taste. By its application to an object of a different kind, the mind is led to trace out an illustrative comparison. Consequently in this way the distinctness of the reader's conception of the object, to which the epithet is applied, is increased. 4. By affording a more full description of an object. Example: " The rays of the setting sun were just gilding the gray spire of the church." The epithet gray, in this example, might have been omit ted, or a different word, as dark-blue, might have been substituted for it, and the proposition would have been true. Still the effect of its use is favorable, since the mind has more definiteness in its view of the object, on which it fixes its attention. Every spire must have some color, and mention of this color, whatever it may be, aids the mind in thfl distinct conception of the object to which it belongs. It is in this way then, that ah epithet, by a more full description, aids the distinctness of the view. To these illustrations of the nature and power of epithets, I would subjoin the remark, that compound epithets are sometimes introduced with favorable effects. The following are instances of this kind; "--silver-tongued hope,"--" much-abused man." The caution, that they be not too frequently introduced, may not be amiss. Under the head of a happy choice of words as conducive to vivacity, I mention, 1. The use of language in a figurative manner. While giving examples in illustration...
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