Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Vol. 1: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University ... of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Radford, Robert Somerville

9780484487177: Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Vol. 1: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University ... of Doctor of Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Personification and the Use of Abstract Subjects in the Attic Orators and Thukydides, Vol. 1: A Dissertation Presented to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

These last two classes of abstract subjects are closely related to each other and together represent the rhetorical use. They belong properly to imaginative or impassioned language, and from the nature of the case there is little restriction upon the verb employed.

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