The rhetorics of Cox (1524) and Wilson (1553) were rhetorics and made no pretence of treating poetry.

Rhetoric and Philosophy The Romans of this epoch still remained strangers to rhetoric and philosophy.

" Rhetoric to Puttenham is beauty of speech: and because poetry is more beautiful than prose, as being in this sense more rhetorical, it is better able to persuade.

Rhetoric was the organon of Roman education, and declamation was the aim of rhetoric.

Rhetoric is an adjunct of the poet.

But a heady rhetoric is not inconsistent with sobriety of thought, as many a Victorian page we have read together testifies.

"Rhetoric, or oratory, is the art of speaking justly, methodically, floridly, and copiously, upon any subject, in order to touch the passions, and to persuade.

She pretends to understand him, but when he asks her what rhetoric is, Rethoryke, she sayde, was founde by reason Man for to governe wel and prudently; His wordes to ordre his speche to purify.

Lydgate's rhetoric is thus a development of only one element of classical rhetoricstyle.