The art of rhetoric made easy, or, The elements of oratory : briefly stated, and fitted for the practice of the studious youth of Great Britain and Ireland: in two books. The first comprehending the principles of that excellent art, conformable to, and supported by the authority of the most accurate orators and rhetoricians, both ancient and modern...The second containing the substance of Longinus's celebrated treatise on the sublime... /
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| Format: | Microform Book |
| Language: | English Latin Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
| Series: | British and continental rhetoric and elocution ;
Reel 5, no. 45. |
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| Item Description: | Longinus' On the sublime translated from the Greek. Its Latin title: De sublimitate. Incorrectly attributed to Dionysius Longinus, author unknown. (Cf. ARN: 1209127). Running title: Rhetoric made easy, or Elements of oratory. Book II has own title page and separate paging. Subtitle continued: In both which all technical terms are fully explained, with their derivations, and proper examples applied to demonstrate and illustrate all the tropes, figures, and fine turns, that are to be met with, or imitated, either in the scriptures, classics, or other polite writings as well oratorial as poetical. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 15 unnumbered pages, 96, 71 pages, 3 unnumbered pages |
| Bibliography: | List of other works by John Holmes on last two unnumbered pages. |