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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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