Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Abraham Mills admit advantage Æneid agreeable ancient appear Aristotle attention beauty character chiefly Cicero circumstances comedy composition connexion considered criticism Dean Swift declension degree Demosthenes discourse distinct distinguished effect elegant eloquence employed English English language epic epic poem epic poetry expression figures French genius give given grace Greek guage hearers Hence Homer ideas Iliad illustrated imagination imitation instance Isocrates ject kind language Latin lecture Lord Bolingbroke manner means metaphor mind modern nations nature never objects observed occasion orator ornament passage passion person perspicuity pleasure poem poet poetical poetry precision principles proper propriety prose public speaking Quintilian racters reason relation remark follows render Roman rule sense sensible sentence sentiments simplicity sort sound speaker species speech style sublime syllables taste tence thing thought Thucydides tion tongue tragedy unity variety verbs verse Virgil whole words writing