Iain  Lennon

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most famously, in Macbeth, where life is a tale ‘Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury’. Whether Shakespeare was thinking of furious sound or sounding fury hardly signifies. The point and beauty of hendiadys is that it sets the words next to each other, that it removes the grammar and relation, that it doubles the words out to give breadth and beauty.
The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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