Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.