 The remote uses to which rhetorical methods of analysis and description have been put, in the absence of a more appropriate method, are well illustrated by the following passage from Sir John Hawkins' History of Music, first published in the late eighteenth...  The History of the Works of the Learned ... - Page 3841739Full view - About this book
 | Henry Pemberton - 1738 - 192 pages
...remarking fuch confequences from the conditions of the problem, as may be conducive towards the folution of it; and an orator's invention confifts in finding...invention is made one of the heads among the precepts of rhetoric ; and confifts in enumerating the common places, which are to be revolved over in the fearch... | |
 | 1767 - 572 pages
...we enquire a little into thofe powers which are chiefly exercifed in practical compofition : The an of invention is made one of the heads among the precepts of rhetoric, to which mufic in this and fundry inftances bears a near refemblance ; the end of perfuafion,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 510 pages
...difcerned if we enquire a little into thofe powers which are chiefly exetcifed in practical compofition -. the art of invention is made one of the heads among the precepts of rhetoric, to which mufic in this and fundry ii.itances bears a near refemblance ; the end of perfuafion,... | |
 | John Hawkins - 1875 - 532 pages
...discerned if we inquire a little into those powers which are chiefly exercised in practical composition. The art of invention is made one of the heads among the precepts of rhetoric, to which music in this and sundry instances bears a near this answer : ' Quod mihi comilium... | |
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