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. 1914 Excerpt: ...to its native idiom and range. Bacon could not have written "Cymbeline" or "The Winter's Tale," even as Shakespeare could not have written "The Advancement of Learning." Even in the sixteenth century an author three fourths of whose literary product was in Latin was not the author to use the native language as the ...
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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. 1914 Excerpt: ...to its native idiom and range. Bacon could not have written "Cymbeline" or "The Winter's Tale," even as Shakespeare could not have written "The Advancement of Learning." Even in the sixteenth century an author three fourths of whose literary product was in Latin was not the author to use the native language as the great dramatist did. In the use of terse and trenchant words, in the nice adaptation of the word to the idea, and of the word to the specific character at the time uttering it, in the use of what Whipple has called "suggestive terms," in the large' place given to the Old English element, and in the pervading euphony of the language, this order of English was without a parallel in its own clay, and has as yet no superior. The justifiable inference is that, in whatever later period Shakespeare might have lived, he would have been as true an exponent of the best English of the time as he was in the transitional age of the Tudors. 4. Special attention should be called to Shakespeare's use of figure. Figurative language finds its best expression in verse, as the more imaginative form of literature, and in verse itself comes to its best expression in the drama, so that the student of symbolic terms could gather from these thirtyseven plays alone a sufficient number and variety of figures to constitute a manual for educational use. His pages abound in simile and metaphor and allegory; in antithesis and epigram; in irony, hyperbole, personification, and climax; in all the varied forms of metonymy, there being a notable combination of the milder with the more vigorous figures of pictorial literature. Even in the historical plays, so didactic in method and style, there is a rare use of symbolism, as, especially, in th...
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