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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. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ... CLYMAX, OR THE MARCHING FIGURE. 43 doubly and the verb climb, and speaks of every step being exampled by the first pace; and Rosalind, in ' As You Like It, ' act v. scene 2, after using the clyming figure (see Part I. p. 12), says in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage which they will climb. Moreover Puttenham, in describing this figure, says it 'may be called the marching figure, for after the first step all the rest proceed by double the space, and so in our speech one word proceeds double to the first that was spoken, and goeth, as it were, by strides or paces. It may as well be called the clyming figure, for clymax is as much as to say as a ladder.' Enter Armado and Moth. Arm. Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit grows melancholy? Moth. A great sign, sir, that he will look sad. Arm. Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp. Moth. No, no; O Lord, sir, no. Arm. How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal? Moth. By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior. Arm. Why tough senior? why tough senior? Moth. Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal? Arm. I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender. Moth. And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your old time, which we may name tough. Arm, Pretty and apt. Moth. How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or I apt, and my saying pretty? Arm. Thou pretty, because little. Moth. Little pretty, because little. Wherefore.apt? Arm. And therefore apt, because quick. Love's Labour's Lost, Act i. Sc. 2. When ye will speake giving every person or thing besides his proper name a qualitie by way of addition whether it be of good or of bad, it is a figurative...Book Details
Published
June 14, 2026
Publisher
General Books
Pages
48
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781458973917