The continual use of periphrases is undoubtedly a grave fault in style, yet who but a pedant would really quarrel with such periphrases as sirena de’ boschi for the nightingale, or il novello Edimione for Galileo?
These sagas are not to be so forgotten or disproved as to take away from poetry old periphrases which great skalds have been pleased with.
The continual use of periphrases is undoubtedly a grave fault in style, yet who but a pedant would really quarrel with such periphrases as sirena de' boschi for the nightingale, or il novella Edimione for Galileo?
He can only be addressed with periphrases and in the third person.
By reading the English, French, and German columns downwards, the reader will see how many different roots and periphrases these languages employ in order to express the same ideas.
The true poet, master of his speech, employs only periphrases at once so new and so clear in their shadowy half-light, that any slightly sensual intelligence prefers them to the too absolute word.
They seem to be little used: in the story of Harata Kunwar it will be seen that clumsy periphrases are employed to designate the second, third, fourth, and fifth brother of the family to which the hero belonged.
Notice how, instead of using the ordinal numbers for second, third, fourth, and fifth brothers, the father employs clumsy periphrasesto indicate the sequence.
In these staves a number of periphrases for men or warriors are used--and the use of these periphrasesconstitute the charm of these verses.
The branching bough of battle is a periphrasis for a man, so also is a blue-blade-breaker; and it is the use of such periphrases that constituted poetry to Icelandic ideas.
The age of Delille wished to see everything described in elegant periphrases, and the periphrases arranged in harmonious verses.
Although the language is in parts ornate to a degree, the old periphrases are wholly excluded; and when simple things have to be said they are said with the utmost simplicity.
Old Testament, though exceedingly common in the superstitiousperiphrases of the later Jewish literature.
Periphrases for God, like "the Ancient of Days," become normal in Talmudic literature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "periphrases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
