 | Salem Town - Readers - 1855 - 492 pages
...their chief, tall sts a rock of ice; his tpear, the blasted ,/ir; his shield, the rising moon; and he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on the fa-/l. NOTE. When hyperbolical language goes beyond all reatonablt bounds, it becomes bombast, and... | |
 | Walter William King - 1856 - 228 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." Let me hear something about the figure you call Irony. Irony comes from the Greek, eironeia,... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir; his shield, the rising moon; and he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on the hill. Qn:«Ti<ns. What is a hyperbole ? Givo an exiunpll KOTE. When hyperbolical language goes beyond... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1860 - 416 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon ; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." The Hyperbole (exaggeration), therefore, consists in represent, ing objects either greater or... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon ; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill. — Ossian. At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1862 - 324 pages
...I saw their chief, «all as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blas.ed fir; his shield the rising moon; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill.—Ossian. At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1866 - 342 pages
...qualities. I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice; his spear, the fir; his shield the rising morn: he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill. — Ossian. A lover may bestride the Gossamer, That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet not... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
..." I saw their chief tall as a rock of ice; his. spear the blasted fir; his shield the rising moon; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." Satan's despair is portrayed in the famous passage, " Me miserable," &c. Flattery and Adulation... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 374 pages
...qualities. " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the fir ; his shield, the rising moon : he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." — Ossian. " A lover may bestride the Gossamer, That idles in the wanton summer air, And yet... | |
 | Isaac Plant Fleming - English language - 1869 - 346 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon ; he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on the hill. — Ossian. ix. Oh sacred Truth ! thy triumph ceased awhile, And Hope, thy sister, ceased with... | |
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I beheld their chief," says Moran, " tall as a glittering rock. His spear is a blasted pine; his shield the rising moon. He sat on the shore! like a cloud of mist on the silent hill! Many, chief of heroes! I said, many are our hands of war. Well art thou... 
