 | Joseph Hervey Hull - English language - 1828 - 84 pages
...natural dimensions ; as, " 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." Antithesis, is the contrast or opposition of two objects in a sentence ; as, " If Cato may be... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 234 pages
...chief," says the scout of Ossian, " tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the hlasted fir ; his shield, .he rising moon : he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." The errors frequent in the use of Hyperholes, arise either from overstraining, or introducing... | |
 | Ossian - 1834 - 218 pages
...streams.' — '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 !...hill ! Many, chief of heroes ! I said , many are our bands of -war. Well art thou named, the mighty man; but many mighty men are seen from Tura's windy... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1834 - 366 pages
...saw their chief," says the scout of Ossian, " 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 errors frequent in the use of Hyperboles, arise either from overstraining, or introducing... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 pages
...I saw their chief,'' says the scout of Ossian, " 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." 10. Irony is expressing ourselves in a manner contrary to our thoughts, not with a view to deceive,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1835 - 238 pages
...saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield, the rising moon i he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hills." 10. VISION is produced, when, in relating something that is past, we use the present tense,... | |
 | Charles Theophilus Ewald Rhenius - Tamil language - 1836 - 320 pages
...told it him a thousand times, piri / *aw iAezr chief, tall as a rock, his spear, the blasted fir ; his shield the rising moon ; he sat on the shore like a cloud of mist on the hill, &&LzfoGuireou QufliLuu®£iu Tamil instances : thou runnest as swift as the wind. Qfsaii»£ppir**,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1836 - 238 pages
...extravagant hyperboles. " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, tl\e blasted fir ; hi* shield, the rising moon ; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on th« hills." 10. VISION is produced, when, in relating something that is past, we use the present tense,... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - English language - 1838 - 338 pages
...of the enemy's chief. " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasted fir ; dis shield, the rising moon ; he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on the hill." Example 2. Admiration of the happiness of successful love exaggerates conceptions of the lover.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - English language - 1839 - 242 pages
...are extravagant hyperboles. " I saw their chief, tall as a rock of ice ; his spear, the blasfod fir ; his shield, the rising moon : he sat on the shore, like a cloud of mist on tho lulls." 10. VISION is produced, when, in relating something that is past, we use the present tense,... | |
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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... 
