Author: Hugh Blair

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9781527693753

Excerpt from Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Vol. 2 of 3 In the fecond place, figures, in order to be beautiful, mul't always rife naturally from the fubjefi. I have ihown that all of them are the language either of imagination, or of pallion; fome of them fuggefied by imagination, when itis awakened and fprightly, fuch as metaphors arid compatirons; others, by paflion or more heated emotion fuch as perl'onifications and ipoftrophes. Of courfe they are beautiful then only, when they are prompted by fancy, or by pallion. They mull rife of their own accord; they mufi flow from a mind warmed by the objefi which it leeks to defcribe; we lhould never interrupt the comic of thought to call. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.