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| Lecture I | Introduction | 3 |
| Lecture II | Taste | 10 |
| Lecture III | Criticism - genius - pleasure of taste - sublimity in objects | 21 |
| Lecture IV | The sublime in writing | 32 |
| Lecture V | Beauty, and other pleasures of taste | 45 |
| Lecture VI | Rise and progress of language | 54 |
| Lecture VII | Rise and progress of language, and of writing | 65 |
| Lecture VIII | Structure of language | 75 |
| Lecture IX | Structure of language - English tongue | 87 |
| Lecture X | Style - perspicuity and precision | 99 |
| Lecture XI | Structure of sentences | 110 |
| Lecture XII | Structure of sentences | 121 |
| Lecture XIII | Structure of sentences - harmony | 132 |
| Lecture XIV | Origin and nature of figurative language | 145 |
| Lecture XV | Metaphor | 157 |
| Lecture XVI | Hyperbole - personification - apostrophe | 170 |
| Lecture XVII | Comparison, antithesis, interrogation, exclamation, other figures of speech | 184 |
| Lecture XVIII | Figurative language - general characters of style - diffuse, concise - feeble, nervous - dry, plain, neat, elegant, flowery | 195 |
| Lecture XIX | General characters of style - simple, affected, vehement - directions for forming a proper style | 208 |
| Lecture XX | Critical examination of the style of Mr. Addison, in no. 411 of the Spectator | 219 |
| Lecture XXI | Critical examination of the style in no. 412 of the Spectator | 229 |
| Lecture XXII | Critical examination of the style in no. 413 of the Spectator | 238 |
| Lecture XXIII | Critical examination of the style in no. 414 of the Spectator | 246 |
| Lecture XXIV | Critical examination of the style in a passage of Dean Swift's writings | 253 |
| Lecture XXV | Eloquence, or public speaking - history of eloquence - Grecian eloquence - Demosthenes | 264 |
| Lecture XXVI | History of eloquence continued - Roman eloquence - Cicero - modern eloquence | 276 |
| Lecture XXVII | Diferent kinds of public speaking - eloquence of popular assemblies - extracts from Demosthenes | 288 |
| Lecture XXVIII | Eloquence of the bar - analysis of Cicero's Oration for Cluentius | 302 |
| Lecture XXIX | Eloquence of the pulpit | 316 |
| Lecture XXX | Critical examination of a sermon of Bishop Atterbury's | 330 |
| Lecture XXXI | Conduct of a discourse in all its parts - introduction - division - narration and explication | 344 |
| Lecture XXXII | Conduct of a discourse - the argumentative part - the pathetic part - the peroration | 356 |
| Lecture XXXIII | Pronunciation, or delivery | 368 |
| Lecture XXXIV | Means of improving in eloquence | 380 |
| Lecture XXXV | Comparative merit of the Antients and the moderns - historical writing | 390 |
| Lecture XXXVI | Historical writing | 402 |
| Lecture XXXVII | Philosophical writing - dialogue - epistolary writing - fictitious history | 414 |
| Lecture XXXVIII | Nature of poetry - its origin and progress - versification | 425 |
| Lecture XXXIX | Pastoral poetry - lyric poetry | 438 |
| Lecture XL | Didactic poetry - descriptive poetry | 453 |
| Lecture XLI | The poetry of the Hebrews | 467 |
| Lecture XLII | Epic poetry | 478 |
| Lecture XLIII | Homer's Iliad and Odyssey - Virgil's Aeneid | 489 |
| Lecture XLIV | Lucan's Pharsalia - Tasso's Jerusalem - Camoen's Lusiad - Fenelon's Telemachus - Voltaire's Henriade - Milton's Paradise lost | 501 |
| Lecture XLV | Dramatic poetry - tragedy | 515 |
| Lecture XLVI | Tragedy - Greek - French - English tragedy | 528 |
| Lecture XLVII | Comedy - Greek and Roman - French - English comedy | 542 |
| Appendix of contemporary versions of Blair's Greek | 557 | |
| Bibliography of works by and about Hugh Blair | 561 |
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Mark Harper
reviewed Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres on October 07, 2014 Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
I picked up this book after reading the introduction and the first chapter.
It sounded more like an essay than a book, but I was really interested in what I thought she was getting at with her thesis. I think the idea was that studies of how language is parsed by children and adults has only been in right-branching languages like English. The problem for me as a student of Japanese is that it's a left-branching language. For example in English: "He went to the store"; Japanese: "He Store to Went". It's not so bad for simple sentences, and those are natural to me now, but for complex sentences, I often have to stop and think. If it's spoken, I don't really have time to stop and think. So that the author was going to take a look at how left-branching languages are processed by the brain was very interesting to me.
My hope was to understand how native speakers parse sentences, so I could actively try to copy them until it became more natural. Unfortunately, the book quickly became inaccessible to me as the terms and diagrams require a background in linguistics.
Google and linguistics.stackexchange.com, are big helps for anyone who has the motivation to learn some topics in linguistics, but I didn't.
Going to have to put this essay down.
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