All 7 Uses of
perspective
in
David Copperfield
- Here is a long passage — what an enormous perspective I make of it!†
Chpt 1-3 *
- I smell the fog that hung about the place; I see the hoar frost, ghostly, through it; I feel my rimy hair fall clammy on my cheek; I look along the dim perspective of the schoolroom, with a sputtering candle here and there to light up the foggy morning, and the breath of the boys wreathing and smoking in the raw cold as they blow upon their fingers, and tap their feet upon the floor.†
Chpt 7-9
- I thought it all extremely beautiful, and made up my mind to sleep among the hops that night: imagining some cheerful companionship in the long perspectives of poles, with the graceful leaves twining round them.†
Chpt 13-15
- There was a charming lawn, there were clusters of trees, and there were perspective walks that I could just distinguish in the dark, arched over with trellis-work, on which shrubs and flowers grew in the growing season.†
Chpt 25-27
- As I could obtain a perspective view of Mr. Omer inside, smoking his pipe by the parlour door, I entered, and asked him how he was.†
Chpt 28-30
- I saw those two together, in a bright perspective, such well-associated friends, each adorning the other so much!†
Chpt 37-39
- There was a little green perspective of trellis-work and ivy at the side of our cottage, through which I could see, from the garden where I was walking, into the road before the house.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(perspective as in: Look at it from her perspective) a particular way of seeing or thinking about things