The Might and Mirth of Literature: A Treatise on Figurative Language. In which Upwards of Six Hundred Writers are Referred To, and Two Hundred and Twenty Figures Illustrated ... |
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adjective admirable alliteration Asyndeton ballad beautiful Ben Jonson Bible breath Cæsar Charles Christ Cicero Coriolanus cried Cymbeline dark death delight Demosthenes earth effect ellipsis eloquence enallage England English example expression feeling FIGURES OF RHETORIC flowers France genius George Giles Fletcher give Greek hand hath hear heart heaven Henry Hyperbaton instance Ireland James Jesus John Julius Cæsar King lady language Latin light literature living in 1875 Lord Mark means metaphor metonymy Milton mind nature never night noble noun o'er object orator oratory Paradise Lost passion periphrasis pleonasm poem poesy poet poetic poetry prose pulpit scene Scotland Scripture sentence sermon Shakespeare simile soul speak speaker speech style sublime sweet tell tempest thee thing Thomas thou thought thunder tion trope truth turn United verb William wind words writing