An*tith"e*sis (&?;), n.;
pl. Antitheses. (&?;) [L., fr.
Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to set against, to oppose; &?; against + &?; to set. See
Thesis.] 1.
(Rhet.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."
2. The second of two
clauses forming an antithesis. 3.
Opposition; contrast.
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 him a rhopoperperethras-- a loud declaimer about petty matters;
from rhopos, small wares, and perperos, a loud talker; and another
scoffs at him for the use of antithesis : --
And what he took, took back; a phrase to please
The very fancy of Demosthenes.
Unless, indeed, this also is meant by Antiphanes for a jest upon
Thus Walton appears, this is ' the picture of his own
disposition,' in the Lives. He is a kind of antithesis to
John Knox. Men like Walton are not to be approached for new
'ideas.' They will never make a new world at a blow: they
will never enable us to understand, but they can teach us to
endure, and even to enjoy, the world. Their example is
alluring:-
And `allusions are elegant,' but only ` when introduced with ease, and
when they are well understood by those to whom they are addressed.'
` An antithesis renders a passage piquant'; but the dire results of a
too- frequent indulgence in it are relentlessly set forth. Pages and
pages are devoted to a minute survey of the pit-falls of punctuation.
But when the young lady of that period had skirted all these, and had
observed all the manifold rules of caligraphy that were here laid down
for her, she was not, even then, out of the wood. Very special stress
was the basis of a division dealing with the Criticism of Life; while
Section IV., together with what was not already classed, fell
conveniently under five heads: Nature, and in antithesis to it, Art
and Literature; Family Life; and the ethical view of things under the
double aspect of Religion on the one hand, and on the other, the blind
and vast forces of Fate and Change.
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had mistaken his powers. He was a great master of invective and
sarcasm: he could dissect a character in terse and sonorous
couplets, brilliant with antithesis : but of dramatic talent he
was altogether destitute. If he had written a lampoon on Dennis,
such as that on Atticus, or that on Sporus, the old grumbler
would have been crushed. But Pope writing dialogue resembled-- to
borrow Horace' s imagery and his own-- a wolf, which, instead of
biting, should take to kicking, or a monkey which should try to
Member for Dublin ( Mr O'Connell.) recommends redress; and that it
is our duty to try the effect of redress before we have recourse
to coercion. The antithesis is framed with all the ingenuity
which is characteristic of my honourable friend' s style; but I
cannot help thinking that, on this occasion, his ingenuity has
imposed on himself, and that he has not sufficiently considered
the meaning of the pointed phrase which he used with so much
effect. Redress is no doubt a very well sounding word. What can
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