John Barton, The Art of Rhetoric (1634)
Date
1634
Author
J.
B.(alternate name for
John
Barton
)
Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
The Art of Rhetorick Concisely And Compleatly Handled, Exemplified out of holy Writ, and with a compendious and perspicuous Comment, fitted to the capacities of such as have had a smatch of learning, or are otherwise ingenious
Publication place
London
Publisher
Nicolas Alsop
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP transcript
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
rhetoric
Summary
Many logical definitions of rhetorical figures, tropes, etc.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Secondly, I presume, I need not excuse giving of English names, having put the known names in the Margent, and used them in my Comment: as for changing those names, good reason. For Tropes and Figures were distinguished by names that had no difference, as Metonymia and Metaphora are both Translation, which is a name generall enough for all the Tropes: neither can I think it but preposterous, to speak of affections of Tropes before the Tropes themselves; which perhaps they did, that the examples wherein affections were, might be more fully apprehended, though I suppose so much at once would rather puzzle the learner. (a3v-a4r)
sample: Secondly, I presume, I need not excuse giving of English names, having put the known names in the Margent, and used them in my Comment: as for changing those names, good reason. For Tropes and Figures were distinguished by names that had no difference, as Metonymia and Metaphora are both Translation, which is a name generall enough for all the Tropes: neither can I think it but preposterous, to speak of affections of Tropes before the Tropes themselves; which perhaps they did, that the examples wherein affections were, might be more fully apprehended, though I suppose so much at once would rather puzzle the learner. (a3v-a4r)
Alston
VI.60
STC
1540
Criticisms
Howell, Wilbur Samuel. Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1956.
274.
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