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What matters anything at all ? We have been up to Teddy — and here we are !— J. H. Skrine, A Memory of Edward Thring, ch. 1. One of the richer sources of Figure is the attribution of human qualities to objects which are naturally devoid of them. Sometimes it hardly amounts to what we should call Personi- fication, it is merely a tinge of anthropomorphism. For 1 The Journal of Philology, Vol. xviii. No. 36: 'Literary Criticism in. Latin Antiquity,' p. 237, LEADING CHARACTERISTICS OF PROSE DICTIO...N 247 example, things are sometimes described as ' conspiring ' to produce events, as in the following extract from a review of Mr. Freeman's series of 'Historic Towns.' Of the Cinque Ports (which had found a historian in Professor Montagu Burrows) it is there said : But in the apparent height of their power and prosperity the progress of decay had already begun, and once begun it was rapid. Moods, sieges, and sacks all contributed to it, but it was chiefly due to the course of physical change, conspiring with the increase in the burthen of vessels.
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