Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres / Hugh Blair ; edited with an introduction by Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran.

Originally published: London : W. Strahan, 1783.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-565) and index.

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Machine generated contents note: Lecture I Introduction -- Lecture II Taste -- Lecture III Criticism -- genius -- pleasure of taste -- sublimity in objects -- Lecture IV sublime in writing -- Lecture V Beauty, and other pleasures of taste -- Lecture VI Rise and progress of language -- Lecture VII Rise and progress of language, and of writing -- Lecture VIII Structure of language -- Lecture IX Structure of language -- English tongue -- Lecture X Style -- perspicuity and precision -- Lecture XI Structure of sentences -- Lecture XII Structure of sentences -- Lecture XIII Structure of sentences -- harmony -- Lecture XIV Origin and nature of figurative language -- Lecture XV Metaphor -- Lecture XVI Hyperbole -- personification -- apostrophe -- Lecture XVII Comparison, antithesis, interrogation, exclamation, other figures of speech -- Lecture XVIII Figurative language -- general characters of style -- diffuse, concise -- feeble, nervous -- dry, plain, neat, elegant, flowery -- Lecture XIX General characters of style -- simple, affected, vehement -- directions for forming a proper style -- Lecture XX Critical examination of the style of Mr. Addison, in no. 411 of the Spectator -- Lecture XXI Critical examination of the style in no. 412 of the Spectator -- Lecture XXII Critical examination of the style in no. 413 of the Spectator -- Lecture XXIII Critical examination of the style in no. 414 of the Spectator -- Lecture XXIV Critical examination of the style in a passage of Dean Swift's writings -- Lecture XXV Eloquence, or public speaking -- history of eloquence -- Grecian eloquence -- Demosthenes -- Lecture XXVI History of eloquence continued -- Roman eloquence -- Cicero -- modern eloquence -- Lecture XXVII Diferent kinds of public speaking -- eloquence of popular assemblies -- extracts from Demosthenes.

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