| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 404 páginas
...fourth. maxim too well to be troubled on that head. " In the Attic Commonwealth," he says elsewhere, 1 "it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public, or to expose upon the stage by name any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Cleon,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 páginas
...difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,1 it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,2... | |
| Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 páginas
...upon the difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attick commonwealth, it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in publick, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure,... | |
| Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 páginas
...upon the difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attick commonwealth, it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in publick, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure,... | |
| Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 páginas
...this form of redundancy, the idea is repeated in words of the same or similar meaning. For example: In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege (and...every citizen (and poet) to rail aloud and in public. It is a matter notorious (and of common repute) throughout the length and breadth of the land. One... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 páginas
...difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,1 it was the privilege and birth-right of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,2... | |
| Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 182 páginas
...however ; by simply drawing your pen though the superfluous words. Professor Bain quotes from Swift : " In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege and...every citizen and poet, to rail aloud and in public." The meaning is pretty much the same as " it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public."... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 570 páginas
...this purpose I have sometimes reflected upon the difference between Athens and England with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth...citizen and poet to rail aloud and in public, or to expose upon the stage by name any person they pleased, though of the greatest figure, whether a Creon,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1919 - 740 páginas
...difference between Athens and England, with respect to the point before us. In the Attic commonwealth,2 it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to rail aloud, and in 1 Plutarch. ' Vide Xenophon. public, or to expose upon the stage, by name, any person they pleased,... | |
| Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 páginas
...redundancy, tautology, and circumlocution is mainly one of degree. In the following sentence of Swift, " In the Attic Commonwealth it was the privilege and birthright of every citizen and poet to read aloud and in public," the words privilege and birthright are tautologous, since birthright includes... | |
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