The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.
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The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith.
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Smith, John, Gent.
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London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,
1665.
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Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
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"The mysterie of rhetorique unveil'd wherein above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English : together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptural, examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the scripture, (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day). Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and others of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c. / by John Smith." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59234.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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English Examples of Catachresis.
A voice beautiful to his ears.
He threatens me a good turn.
I promised him an executioner.
I gave order to some servants of mine, (whom I thought as apt for such Charities as my self) to lead him out into a forrest, and kill him; where Charity is used, or rather abused for Cruelty.
They build a horse by Pallas are divine: here the Poet traduceth that to a beast, which is pro∣per to the making of a house.
And as he said that mislik'd a picture with a crooked nose: The elbow of his nose is dispro∣portionable.
By the license of this figure we give names to many things which lack names: as when we say,
The water runs, which is improper; for to run, is proper to those creatures which have feet and not unto water.
By this form also we attribute hornes to a snail, and feet to a stool; and so likewise to ma∣ny other things which lack their proper names.
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