Thomas Blount, The Academy of Eloquence (1654)
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Date
1654
Author
Thomas Blount Note: 30/09/2005
Book title
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
Publication place
London
Printer
N., T.
Publisher
Humphrey Moseley
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
rhetoric
Summary
Explanations for rhetorical figures begin with ones for metaphor and allegory (pp. 1-3), and the rhetoric (pp. 1-46) is based on John Hoskins' Directions
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: 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.. (pp. 5-6)
sample: 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.. (pp. 5-6)
Alston
VI.74
Wing
B 3321
Other editions
1656: Wing B3324;
1663: Wing B3323;
1670: Wing B3325;
1683: Wing B3326
1663: Wing B3323;
1670: Wing B3325;
1683: Wing B3326
Facsimiles
Blount, Thomas. The Academy of Eloquence, 1654. English linguistics, 1500-1800, no. 296. Menston: Scolar Press, 1971. view record
Criticisms
Bongaerts, Theo, ed. The Correspondence of Thomas Blount (1618-1679), A Recusant Antiquary. Amsterdam: n.p., 1978. view record
Bath, Michael. "`Emblem' as a Rhetorical Figure: John Hoskins and Thomas Blount." Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory 1500-1700. Eds. Peter M. Daly and John Manning. New York: AMS Press, 1999. 51-61. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
Bath, Michael. "`Emblem' as a Rhetorical Figure: John Hoskins and Thomas Blount." Aspects of Renaissance and Baroque Symbol Theory 1500-1700. Eds. Peter M. Daly and John Manning. New York: AMS Press, 1999. 51-61. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount, Author of `Fragmenta Antiquitatis,' etc.." Notes and Queries 8 (1853): 286. view record
Whitborne, J. B. "Thomas Blount." Notes and Queries 8.216 (1853 December 17): 603. view record
