 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 ページ
...found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful; Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin. LEE. This is mere bombast. The person herself who was under the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 272 ページ
...found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful ; Pouring forth tears at saeh a lavish rate, That, were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heav'n, and quench'd the mighty ruin. This is mere bombast. The person herself who laboured under the distracting... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 ページ
...found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful ; Pouring forth tears at inch a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench' d the mighty ruin. — Let. With regard to the latter of these instances, the person... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 346 ページ
...magnifying an object beyond its natural bounds. Example: " She poured forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of heav'n, and quench'd the mighty ruin." LEE. Personification, or prosopopeia, is the attributing of life and its... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1822 - 164 ページ
...found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful ; Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, anil quench'd the mighty ruin." some of the properties of living creature? are ascribed to... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 ページ
...her lips, Which late appear'd like buds, were now o'erblown ! Pouring forth tears, at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heav'n, and quench'd the mighty ruin. Ibid. I could perceive with joy, a silent show'r Run down his silver beard.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 ページ
...her on the floor Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful; That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin. LKI. This is mere bombast. The person herself who was under the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1837 - 242 ページ
...heron the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful, Pouring forth tears at such a lavish raie, That were the world on fire, they might have drown,d The wrath of heaven, p.nd quench,d the miijhty ruin. This is mere bombast. The person herself, who laboured under... | |
 | Friedrich Albert Maennel - 1846 - 218 ページ
...found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful ; Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd, The wrath of Heav'n , and quench'd the mighty ruin. Lee. 154 hyperbolize strongly; but the spectator describing her, cannot be... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1854 - 244 ページ
...found heron the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful, Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin. This is mere bombast. The person herself, who laboured under... | |
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... found her on the floor In all the storm of grief, yet beautiful; Pouring forth tears at such a lavish rate, That were the world on fire, they might have drown'd The wrath of Heaven, and quench'd the mighty ruin. 
