10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGNILOQUENCE»
Discover the use of
magniloquence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
magniloquence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Using the Brain to Spell: Effective Strategies for All Levels
In later years, I changed the strategy to have students working in groups use the “
Magniloquence” list to describe all the other members in the class except those in
their group. Each member wrote on his or her own sheet of paper the complete ...
Boccaargued, I responded. Wediscussed the communiqués again, and their
language. Bocca wasentranced by them;he liked their magniloquence, their
precise, ferocious sentences. I listenedtohim, thoughtaboutit,andrealized
thatalthough ...
3
The Age of Courtly Writing: Wen xuan Compiler Xiao Tong ...
Magniloquence Xiao Tong 大言詩41 觀修鯤其若轍鮒[When I] look at the huge
kun fish,42 it is merely like a golden carp trapped in a carriage rut;43 視滄海之若
濫觴[When I] see the ocean, there seems to be only 經二儀而跼蹐 enough water
to ...
V From 'wit' to 'astonishment' An important passage in Eliot's essay on Marvell
proceeds through the contrast of 'wit' and 'magniloquence' with a subsequent
sketch of some possibilities of wit which help to delineate the nature of Marvell's
own ...
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The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot: New Essays
9 'Wit' here suggests Dryden, 'magniloquence' Milton —and this is confirmed
eight pages on: 'Dryden was great in wit, as Milton in magniloquence'; but Dryden
by isolating wit and Milton by dispensing with it, 'may perhaps have injured the ...
When the great work of the gifted individual, now so far from his native country,
shall have been read by his countrymen, the charges of self-sufficiency,
arrogance, insolence, and preposterous magniloquence, will most certainty be
adjudged to ...
Francis Preston Blair, 1835
7
Horace for Students of Literature: The "Ars Poetica" and Its ...
... most important, the magniloquence of great poetry. For some reason the
history of tragedy ends here. Sophocles and Euripides are ignored. We turn
directly to the form of comedy called Old Comedy. In the handbooks Old Comedy
is said to ...
O. B. Hardison, Leon Golden, 1995
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Lectures & Essays on Irish & Other Subjects
magniloquence. I. The Irish are said to want thrift. Thrift may be defined as the art
of saving, and in this art the Irish in America, at least, have achieved notable
distinction. How but from thrift are kept in motion these unbroken tides of
remittances ...
9
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
If, however, we reach back to pre-Elizabethan English, of a period when the
writers were still intent on clarity and explicitness, still preferring them to
magniloquence and the thundering phrase, our trial, or mine at least, results in: '
Who is she ...
Ezra Pound, Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1968
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A Few Remarks on a Pamphlet by Mr. Shilleto, Entitled ...
magniloquence, seems to us as good a specimen of Cleonic cou- phology, or
what the laughers at Athens chose to consider so, as we could desire ; except
that, warned by Mr Shilleto, we must not " omit the all-important fact," that while
the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAGNILOQUENCE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
magniloquence is used in the context of the following news items.
Rodgers gets it - Liverpool-Kop.com
... his trademark hyperbole and fawning magniloquence. I've long called for Rodgers to moderate his needless public ego-massage of players, ... «Liverpool-Kop, Jul 15»
“Francis is the Only Convincing Voice That Says Things As They Are …
... is larger: Saint Anne's Door, the Apostolic Palace, the majestic stairway, Saint Damasus Courtyard. Historic magniloquence: some of its parts in fact are o… (0) ... «DFW Catholic, Jul 15»
Bronwyn Bishop and Julie Bishop are demonstrating diametrically …
... carefully observed her subsequent statements and has noted a slow but very distinct shift in her language from magniloquence to quietude. «Brisbane Times, Jul 15»
Brian Kirkpatrick: How #budget2015 will impact British workers
... on to kids – tax free – through inheritance with much magniloquence being exercised to beguile workers into believing that this benefits them, ... «CommonSpace, Jul 15»
Why Bunkonzo Joint Cooperative Society may save Africa's agriculture
At the national level, the political and policy magniloquence declaring agriculture as “the engine of growth” has been consistent in political ... «New Vision, Jun 15»
Nostalgia Bomb: 80's Hardcore Ten Essentials
Whether it's Klaus Flouride's harrowing bassline, East Bay Ray's adroit guitar work or Jello Biafra's magniloquence, “Holiday in Cambodia” is ... «Monsters and Critics.com, Mar 15»
Dat App: The Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus
... encourages locutionary deployment in speech and composition, obsequiousness with one's professor and magniloquence with one's peers. «The Gateway Online, Feb 15»
Sounds of the cosmos, as muse and metronome
But for all of our skyward magniloquence over the years, the universe has rarely answered back. One notable exception however came in 1985 ... «Boston Globe, Jan 15»
Families in literature: the Bagthorpes in The Bagthorpe Saga by …
... tragedy via her use of magniloquence, inflated analogy and classical reference is so adroit that when I read The Rape of the Lock for A-level, ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Concert Review: Memphis Symphony in fine form for Masterworks …
They are not to be trifled with, nor was the MSO's brass section, which loved every minute of ecstatic magniloquence that Wagner served up. «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Nov 14»
