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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Title: 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.
Author: Smith, John, Gent.
Publication: London :: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden ...,; 1665.
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Cite this Item: "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 June 7, 2024.

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DIALYTON, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, dissolutum, disjoyn∣ed; derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [dialyo] dissolvo to disjoyn.

It is all one with Asyndeton.

Asyndeton, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, inconjunctum, disjoyned, or without copulative: derived from the priva∣tive a, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, [syndetos] colligatus, bound together; which is derived from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 [deo] ••ig••, to bind.

A figure when in a heap or pile of words, a conjunction copulative it not only fo•• speed and vehemency, but for pathetical Emphasis sake left out.

Dialyton tollit juncturam, ut Asyndeton, id{que}* 1.1 * 1.2 Articulus faciet: Rex, Miles, Plebs negat il∣lud. Frangetoros, pete vina, rosas cape•• tingere nardo,

Tot res repente circumvallant, unde emergi non potest; vis, egestas, injustitia, solitudo, infamia.

Vbi singulae voces asynditae, sunt emphaticae.

Caeteros ruerem, agerem, raperem, tunderem, pro∣ste••nerem.

Veni, vidi, vici.

Here if the words were copulated with con∣junctions, the quick vertue, vehemency and earnest affection of the speech would languish and decay.

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English Examples of Dialyton and Asyndeton.

Her face with beauty, her head with wisedom, her eyes with Majesty, her countenance with gracefulnesse, her lips with lovelinesse; where many [ands] are spared.

The King himself, the souldier, all sorts of people deny this.

By the folly and wickednesse thou hast lost thy substance, thy good name, thy friends, thy parents, and offended thy Creator.

In some places only the Conjunction is put in the last place, in a Compare of three: as,

A fair woman doth not only command with∣out entreaty, but perswade without speaking.

Her wit endeared by youth, her affection by birth, and her sadnesse by her beauty.

Scriptural Examples.

1 Cor. 13, 4, 5, 6, 7. Charity suffereth long, envyeth not, vaunteth not it self, is not puffed up, behaves not it self unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evill, &c.

2 Tim: 3.2, 3. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas∣phemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, un∣holy, &c.

The like also you may find in Rom. 1.29, &c. Psal. 66.1, 2, 3. Rom. 3.11, 12, &c. 1 Thes, 5, 16. &c.

Notes

* 1.1

Farnaby.

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* 1.2

Articu∣lus hath been ac∣counted among the Anci∣ent Rhet. a figure, but now Asyndeton. supplies its place.

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