 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1885 - 372 pages
...language by metaphors? Does he not attribute, by figurative representations, speech to inanimate gbjects ? Does not his oath by the defenders of his country,...energy the comic writers, even while they ridicule him, com' pare to thunder and lightning from heaven ? So comes out something of that latent heat in Quintilian,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin language - 1889 - 520 pages
...Quintilian. 491 objects? Does not his oath by the defenders of his country, slain at Marathon and Salarais, plainly show that Plato was his master ? and shall...him, compare to thunder and lightning from heaven ? So comes out something of that latent heat in Quintilian, for which, unexpectedly finding it in him,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin literature - 1900 - 332 pages
...by metaphors ? Does he not attribute, by figurative representations, speech to inanimate objects ? Does not his oath by the defenders of his country,...him, compare to thunder and lightning from heaven ? So comes out something of that latent heat in Quintilian, for which, unexpectedly finding it in him,... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...by metaphors ? Does he not attribute, by figurative representations, speech to inanimate objects ? Does not his oath by the defenders of his country,...him, compare to thunder and lightning from heaven? What is the reason, then, that they imagine the Attic taste to be apparent in those only who flow,... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 614 pages
...language by metaphors ? Does he not attribute, by figurative representations, speech to inanimate objects? Does not his oath by the defenders of his country,...him, compare to thunder and lightning from heaven? What is the reason, then, that they imagine the Attic taste to be apparent in those only who flow,... | |
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... speakers, in force, sublimity, animation, polish, and structure of periods? Does he not elevate his style by moral observations ? Does he not delight in figures ? Does he not give splendor to his language by metaphors ? Does he not attribute, by figurative... 