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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 48 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: . . . curiosity of Lion-hunters--people who came not out of sympathy but merely to see him--people who sought a little amusement, and who got their amusement while the Heros life went for it J Carlyle suggests a parallel thus: Richter says, in the Island of Sumatra there is a kind of Light-chafers, large Fire-flies, which people stick upon spits, and illuminate the ways with at night. Persons of condition can thus travel with a pleasant radiance, which they much admire. Great honour to the Fire-flies! But--!-- IV. --THE SUPERIORITY OF POETRY TO PROSE EXPLAINED. Before inquiring whether the law of effect, thus far traced, explains the superiority of poetry to prose, it will be needful to notice some supplementary causes of force in expression, that have not yet been mentioned. These are not, properly speaking, additional causes; but rather secondary ones, originating from those already specified--reflex results of them. In the first place, then, we may remark that mental excitement spontaneously prompts the use of those forms of speech which have been pointed out as the most effective. Out with him I Away with him! are the natural utterances of angry citizens at a disturbed meeting. A voyager, describing a terrible storm he had witnessed, would rise to some such climax as-- Crack went the ropes and down came the mast. PECULIARITIES OF PASSIONATE LANGUAGE. 37 Astonishment may be heard expressed in the phrase--U ever was there such a sight I All of which sentences are, it will be observed, constructed after the direct typo, Again, every one knows that excited persons are given to figures of speech. The vituperation of the vulgar abounds with them: often, indeed, consists of little else. Beast, brute, gallows rogue, cut-throat. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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