 | Anthony Blackwall - Classical education - 1737 - 298 pages
...Giving an Account of the Nature, Neceflity, and UJ'e of Figures in general. - ; . r §. i. 'ffllSifiSil: FIGURE is a Manner of Speaking different from the ordinary and plain Way, and more emphatical ; exprejfing . a Pajfion, or containing a Beauty. The beft and moft lively Figures... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - Education - 1754 - 590 pages
...Catachrefis. CHAP. CHAP. III. Giving an Account of the Nature, Neceffily, and Ufe of FIGURES in general. Figure is a Manner of Speaking different from the ordinary and plain fray, and more empbatical; txprejfmg a PaJJion, or containing a Beauty. The beft and molt lively Figures... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...to be without figures, when there is nothing but trees, plant, mountains, dec. FIGUR E, in rhetoric, is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, and more emphatical; expressing a pasaon, or containing a beauty. See RHETORIC. FILACER, or flizer,... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 482 pages
...Archipelago have figs in great abundance, but of inferior quality . See C AERIFICATION. FIGURE, in rhetoric, is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, and more emphatical ; expressing a passion, or containing a beauty. Figures' are highly serviceable... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...Archipelago have figs in great abundance, but of inferior quality. See CAPRIFICATION. FIGURE, in rhetoric, is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, and more emphatical ; expressing a passion, or containing a beauty. Figures are highly serviceable... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 408 pages
...to be without figures, when there is nothing but trees, plants, mountains, &c. FIGURE, in rbetoric, is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, and more emphatical ; expressing a passion, or containing a beauty. See UUETORIC. FILACER, or fiitter,... | |
 | Alexander Adam, Allen Fisk - Latin language - 1822 - 202 pages
...utter ; verbum de verbo expressum, to translate, Ter. pedem domo, to go out; corpus amplo funere, & II. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A Figure is a manner of speaking...The figures of Syntax or Construction may be reduced to these three, Ellipsis, Pleonasm, and Hyperbdton. The two first respect the constituent parts of... | |
 | James Macgowan - Latin language - 1825 - 200 pages
...29. 20. First line, Hexameter ; second, Iambic Dimeter ; third, two Dactyls and a Syllable. Epod. 13. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A FIGURE is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary way, and it is used for the sake of beauty or force. 1. ELLIPSIS is when one or more words are wanting... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Latin language - 1827 - 236 pages
...in eum & rejicere, to lay the blame on him. II. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A Figure is a manner of ^peaking different from the ordinary and plain way, used for...The figures of Syntax or Construction may be reduced to these three, Ellipsis, Pkontum, and Hyperbaton. The two first respect the constituent parts of a... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Latin language - 1827 - 216 pages
...linguam, to translate; verba, fo me metaphorically ; culpam in eum &L rejicere, to lay the blame on him. II. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A Figure is a manner of...speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, used lor the sake of beauty or fprce. The figures of Syntax or Construction may be reduced to these three,... | |
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Latinam linguam, to translate ; verba, to use metaphorically ; culpam in eum, & rejicere, to lay the blame or. him. II. FIGURES OF SYNTAX. A Figure is a manner of speaking different from the ordinary and plain way, used for the sake of beauty or force.... 
