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city_n	person_n	young_a	youth_n	25	3	7.5588	4	false

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A28452	The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent.	Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679.	1654 (1654)	Wing B3321; ESTC R15301	117,120	245

making The thing containing for the thing or person contained As the the City met the Generall for the Citizens The adjunct property or quality for the subject of it As deserts are preferred for men deserving Take heed young idleness for idle youth Give room to the quoif for the Serjeant with the like SYNECDOCHE is an exchange of the name of the part for the whole or of the name of the whole for the part There are two kinds of totall comprehensions An entire body or a generall name As my name is tossed and censured by many tōgues for many men where the part of an intire body goes for the whole Contrariwise he carries a Goldsmiths shop on his fingers for Rings He fell into the water and swallowed the Thames for the water So the generall name for the speciall Put up your weapon for your Dagger And the speciall for the particular As the Admirall is gone to sea for Admirall Blake The particular for the speciall As I would willingly make you a Sir Philip Sidney for an eloquent learned valiant Gentleman or for many as the Hollander they say comes against us for the Hollanders and such like which because they are easie I have exemplified familiarly Both these figures serve well when you have mentioned somthing before that may require Variety in repetition CATACHRESIS in English Abuse is now grown in fashion as most abuses are It is somewhat more desperate then a Metaphor And is the expressing of one matter by the name of another which is incompatible with and sometimes clean contrary to it As I gave order to some servants of mine whom I thought as apt for such charities as my self to lead him out into a Forrest and there kill him where Charity is used for Cruelty But this may also be by the Figure IRONIA The abuse of a word drawn from things far differing As a voyce beautiful to his ears Accusing in himself no great trouble in mind by his behaviour or action Do you grudge me part of your sorrow being sister in Nature I would I were not so far off a Kin in fortune This is a usuall figure with the fine conversants of our time when they strain for extraordinary expressions As I am in danger of preferment I am not guilty of those praises I have hardly escaped good fortune He threatens me a good turn All by the contrary And as he said that misliked a picture with a crooked Nose The elbow of his Nose is disproportionable The ear is not onely pleased with store and variety of words but takes great delight in the repetition of the same words which because they may be at the beginning at the middle in the end and in sundry correspondencies of each of these places one to another it happens that it has purchased severall names of Figures As Repetition of the same word or sound immediatly without interposition of any other is called EPIZEUXIS O let not let not from you be powred upon me destruction Tormented tormented torment of my soul Philoclea tormented This figure is not to be used but in passion ANADIPLOSIS is a repetition in the end of a former sentence and beginning of the next As you fear lest you should offend offend O how know you that you should offend Because she doth deny deny now in earnest I could laugh c. Why loved I alas alas why loved I to die wretched and to be the example of the heavens hate and hate spare not for ●our worst blow is given From whom they have commonly such respect and respect soon opens the door to perswasion c. This figure is often and handsomly used by Sir William Davenant in his Preface to Gondibert And as no man strikes in thought upon any thing but for some vehemency or distrust so in speech there is no repetition without importance CLIMAX is a kinde of ANADIPLOSIS by degrees making the last word a step to a further meaning If it be turned to an argument it is a SORITES A young man of great beauty beautified with great honor honored with great valor You could not enjoy your goods without government no Government without a Magistrate no Magistrate without obedience and no obedience where every one upon his private passion doth interpret the Rulers actions Now to make it a SORITES or climing argument joyn the first and the last with an ERGO As ERGO you cannot enjoy your own goods where every man upon his own private passions doth c This in a penned speech is too Academicall but in discourse more passable and plausible Seeing to like liking to love loving to c. Deceived me after deceit abused me after abuse forsaken me What doth better become wisdom then to discern what is worthy loving What more agreeable to goodness then to love it so discerned and what to greatness of heart then to be constant in it once loved Where the last word or some one word in the last sentence begets the next clause This Figure hath his time when you are well entred into discourse have procured attention mean to rise and amplifie ANAPHORA is when many clauses have the like beginning You whom vertue hath made the Princess of Felicity be not the minister of ruine You whom my choyce hath made the Goddess of my safety You whom Nature hath made the Load-starr of comfort be not the rock of shipwrack This figure beats upon one thing to cause the quicker apprehension of it in the audience and to awake a sleepy or dull passion EPISTROPHE is contrary to the former when many clauses end with the same words Where the richness did invite the eyes the fashion did en●ertain the eyes and the device did teach the eyes And all the night did nothing but weep Philoclea sigh Philoclea and cry out Philoclea c. Either arm their lives or take away their lives This is rather a Figure of Narration or Instruction then of motion SIMPLOCE or COMPLEXIO is when severall sentences have the same beginning and the same ending The most covetous man longs not to get riches out of that ground which can bear nothing Why Because it is impossible The most ambitious person vexes not his wits to climb to heaven Why because it is impossible This is the wantonest of Repetitions and is not to be used in serious matters EPANALEPSIS is the same in one sentence which SIMPLOCE or COMPLEXIO is in severall As Severe to his servants to his children severe Or the same sound reiterated first or last in a sentence As His superior in means in place his superior In sorrow was I born and must die in sorrow Vnkindness moved me and what can so trouble my courses or wrack my thoughts as unkindness This is a mild and sweet Figure and of much use though single and by it self not usuall in the Arcadia unless thus Overthrow of my desires recompence of my overthrow EPANADOS is when the midst and the end or

THE Academy of Eloquence By Tho Blount Gent Demosthenes Cicero Fr Lo Bacon Sr Ph Sidney W Faithorne Fe THE ACADEMIE OF ELOQUENCE Containing a Compleat ENGLISH RHETORIQUE Exemplified With Common-Places and Formes digested into an easie and Methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times Together with LETTERS both AMOROVS and MORAL Upon emergent occasions By THO. BLOUNT Gent ' CICERO Vt Hominis decus est ingenium Sic ingenij lumen est Eloquentia LONDON Printed by T. N. for Humphrey Moseley at the Princes-Arm's in S. Paul's Church yard 1654. TO ALL NOBLE GENTLEMEN AND LADIES OF ENGLAND WEre it absolutely necessary for him that should write of Eloquence to be perfectly Eloquent I would easily confess my self too rash in this enterprise But having seen often those treat knowingly of Painting that never held Pencill and Cicero remarking that Aratus by the comon consent of learned men wrote excellently of the Heavens Stars though he was no celebrated Astronomer I 'm encourag'd to say Why then may not I too discourse of Eloquence without being a Orator Galen that great Master of Physick who wrote so learnedly of every part of that Science was little seen in the Practick Nor are those that discourse best of the embattailing Armys and differencing military functions alwaies the best Warriers or the most daring The like may happen in this subject that he who is able to set down the Rules and Laws which ought to be observ'd in Speech or stile may notwithstanding find himself defective in the application and so may be said to give that to others which he has not himself The conceits of the mind are Pictures whose Interpreter is the tongue and the order of Gods Creatures in themselves is not only admirable and glorious but Eloquent he then that could apprehend the consequence of things in their truths and deliver his apprehensions as truely were a perfect Orator Thus Cicero Dicere recte nemo potest nisi qui prudenter intelligit Eloquence is equally fortunate in taming Passions and in charming senses she imitates Musick and makes use of the voice of Orators to enchant the Eares with the cadence of Periods and the harmony of Accents whilst the gestures apt motions Natural Aire and all those graces which accompany exact Recitation steal away the Heart by the eyes and work wonders upon the will But Eloquence is chiefly grounded upon Wisdom Wisdom arises principally from a due pre-consideration of all our actions Hence that excellent saying of a modern French Author Il est impossible de bien dire sans avoir bien pensé 't is impossible to speak well without having first well considered what to speak And Plotinus says 't is wisdom to think upon any thing before we execute it Now as 't is certain that No harmony can appear in his thoughts nor soundness in his reason whose speech is faltering and preposterous So likewise no clearness nor perfection in that Fancy which delivers it self by a confus'd abortion Great is the disparagment which flows from the defailance of the Tongue it not only dishonours the person of the Speaker but even sullys the opinion of his reason and judgement with a disrepute and oft-times renders the very truth suspected If then it so befall our verball expressions which are transient and less lyable to censure and where one hansome expression may excuse a number of solaecismes how shall that person be esteem'd prudent whose pen layes him wide open in a fungous and sordid stile how shall we expect ingenuity from him whose leisure and Genius assisted with the examen of his eyes yeild us no spirit in his writing He that has worth in him and cannot express it is a Cabinet keeping a rich Jewell and the key lost sayes a modern Author whereas a good stile with choise matter and embroidery of well chosen words is like a beautifull Woman with a virtuous Soul who attracts the eyes and charmes the hearts of all beholders This excellent faculty of speech ha's bin in high esteem even from the very infancy will be to the end of the World For in sacred Story we read the wise in Heart shall be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increaseth understanding Pleasant words are as an honycomb sweet to the soul and health to the bones Hence 't was an ancient Author maintained that Pericles the Orator was no less Tyrant in Athens then Pysistratus without acknowledging other difference then that this exercis'd his Empire armed the other without armes by the sole terror of his speech which Aristophanes compar'd to a thunder bolt as Homer did that of Vlisses to a Torrent that beares down all with its violence And 't was said of old that the tongue of Cyneas the fam'd Scholler of Demosthenes conquer'd more Citties then the sword of Pyrrhus the valiant King of Epire. To have said thus much of the much more might be added in behalf of this charming Faculty and of the disadvantage commonly attending those who are unskill'd in it may serve as an inducement to the youth of both Sexes for whose benefit this little Work is chiefly intended and to their acceptance consecrated to make the perusall of it their subservient Recreation for vacant houres this w th little study will not only facilitate your discourse into the moding language of these times but adapt your pens too with a quaint fluent stile then which no qualities with confidence I speak it can render you more accomplish'd Here shall you be furnisht with all necessary materialls and helps in order to the acquiring so great a treasure such helps as have bin advised and often wisht for but never before published I. The first part containes a more exact English Rhetorique then has been hitherto extant comprehending all the most usefull Figures exemplifi'd out of the Arcadia and other our choisest Authors II. In the second part you have formulae majores or Common-places upon the most usual subjects for stile and speech The use and advantage whereof is asserted by my Lord Bacon who in his Advancement of learning sayes thus I hold the diligence and pain in collecting Common-places to be of great use and certainty in studying as that which aids the memory subministers copy to invention and contracts the sight of judgement to a strength III. In the third place you shall find Formulae minores as my Lord calls them lesser formes which he then reckon'd among the defects in our Language and sayes they are as it were the Portals and postern dores of stile and speech and of no smal use IV. Lastly you have a Collection of Letters and addresses written to for and by severall persons upon emergent occasions with some particular Instructions and Rules premised for the better attaining to a Pen-perfection The Formula's are but Analects which like the Humble-bec I gather'd in Spring time out of the choisest Flowers of our English