from pleas drawn from my various connexions in life, and, above all, from the great and inceffant demands the discharge of my facred Function makes upon my time and labour; but I fhall decline any further enlargements, and directing myself to Students and young Gentlemen, to whom these papers may be peculiarly ferviceable, conclude with the words of DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENSIS to his friend RUFUS. "You will

« receive my prefent, which will turn to good account, ❝ provided you are willing induftriously to peruse, and "daily exercise yourself in it, as a matter that may "greatly promote your improvement; for the precepts "of art can by no means form eloquent speakers with

out attention and practice; and your future applica«tion and laborious ftudies are abfolutely needful to " crown my directions with fuccefs *."

Τεθ' εξεις δωρον ημετερον, ω Ρεφε, πολλών ανταξιών αλλων, ει βυληθείης εν ταις χερσι τε αυτα συνεχως, ωσπες τι και αλλα των πανυ χρησιμων, εχειν, καὶ συνασκεῖν αυταις καθ' ημερα. γυμνασίαις. Ου γαρ αυίαρχη τα παραγγελματα των τεχνων και δεινους ανταγωνιςας ποιησαι τις βουλομενους διχα μελέτης τε και γυμνασιας' αλλ' επι τοις πονειν και κακοπαθειν κείται η σπο δαια είναι τα παραγγελμαζα και λογο αξία, η φαύλα και αχρητά. DIONYSIUS HALICARNASSENS. de Compofit. Verb, vol. ii. p. 60. edit. HUDSON.

LONDON, 08. 22, 1767.

THE

1

THE

CONTENTS.

With a Mark upon the several Tropes and Figures,
to direct the Reader on what fyllable
the accent should be laid.

PART I.

CHAP. 1. The general Nature of the Tropes,

Page 1--20

Chap.2. The Métaphor,

Chap.3. The Allegory,

Chap.4. The Métonymy,

Chap.5. The Synécdoche,

Chap.6. The I'rony,

Chap.7. The Hyperbole,

Chap.8. The Catachrésis,

VIDA'S Account of the Nature of Tropes,

&c.

The various kinds of Tropes verfified,

with fuitable examples under each

of them,

21---53

54---65

66---70

71---76

77---83

84---97

98---103

104---111

112---115

PART II.

Chap. 1. The general Nature of Figures, 119---127

Chap.2. An Ecphonésis, or Exclamation,

Chap.3. An Aporía, or Doubting,

Chap.4. An Epanorthosis, or Correction,

128---133

134---140

141---148

Chap,

Chap. 5. An Aposiopésis, or

Suppreffion, Page 149---156

Chap. 6. An Apóphasis, or Denial, 157---162

Chap. 7. An Anacoenósis, or Commu-

nication,
163---167

* Chap. 8. An Anástrophe, or Inversion, 168---175

Chap. 9. An Erotésis, or Interrogation, 176---190

Chap. 10. A Prolépsis, or Prevention, 191---200

Chap. 11. A Synchorésis, or Conceffion, 200---207

- Chap.12. An Epanáphora, or Repeti-

224---232

tion,
207---213

Chap. 13. An Apóftrophe, or Address, 213---223

Chap. 14. A Períphrasis, or Circumlo-

cution,

Chap. 15. The Asýndeton and Polysýn-

deton, or the Omiffion, and

the Redundance of Copula-

tives,

233---239

240---247

Chap. 17. An Enantiósis, or Oppofition, 247---264

Chap. 18. A Clímax, or Gradation, 264---275

Chap. 19. An Hypotypósis, or lively

Defcription,

276---328

Chap 20. A Profopopéia, or Fiction

of a perfon,

329---398

Chap.21. A Parábole, or Comparison, 399---462

Chap.22. An Epiphonéma, or inftruc-

tive Remark,

462---467

Chap. 16. An Oxymóron, or feeming

Contradiction,

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The various kinds of Figures verfified,

with fuitable examples under each of

them,

468---478

PART I.

THE

TRO PE S

O F

RHETORIC

CONSIDERED.