Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 edition. Excerpt: ... prlis k suis. It often appears wondersul to me, that every one i so much delighted with foreign and metaphorical terms rather than with such as are natural and proper. This sigure is not peculiar to poetry. Some orators abound in it even to exuberance, siolss fttlaiptais SiaAsyavlai. See v. 103-4. Arist. Rhet. I. 3. c. 2. From 62 to 69, & 110 to H2 are examples of the metaphor. From 77 to 84, and from 121 to 128 are illustrations. It is more than probable, as Vida observes, that the use of metaphor originated in the poverty of language, and was called in to it's aid; and that from having been sirst adopted by necessity, it gradually advanced into a luxury; and being considered as ornamental, became generally admitted by the poets. There 13 much beauty in the above illustration, where the alternation of images produced in the mind by metaphorical allusion, is compared to sigures on the shore reflected in the water below; and the distinction between the original use of it through poverty of language, and it's present use for ornamental purposes, to the difference between the huts of the early inhabitants of the universe, and the stately domes and palaces of more refined ages. 97. See the conclusion of Iliad 1. Thus the blest gods the genial day prolong, In feasts ambrosial and celestial song. Apollo tun'd the lyre; the Muses round With voice alternate aid the silver found. Pope's Homer. 139. It Is a great mistake to suppose, that the libertiei taken by the poets, whose principal object is to delight, and who are frequently obliged by the consinement of numbers to give uncommon turns to their expressions, can be admitted in prose. We are to remember that the orator is not implicitly to follow the poets in boldness of sigure and...
