He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.

Indeed, the young men trained at Cremona and Milan between the days of Sulla and Caesar were those who in due time passed on the torch of literary art at Rome, while the Roman youths were being enticed away into rhetoric.

The brief biography of Vergil contained in the Berne MS.a document of doubtful valuementions Epidius as Vergil's teacher in rhetoric, and adds that Octavius, the future emperor, was a fellow pupil.

Vergil coming from the provinces entered rhetoric rather late in years, whereas Octavius must have required the aid of a master of declamation early, since at the age of twelve he prepared to deliver the laudatio funebris at the grave of his grandmother.

When Virgil, therefore, turned to rhetoric, probably under Epidius, he received the training which was still considered orthodox.

The analytical rules of rhetoric were growing ever more intricate and time-wasting, and how pedantic they were even before Vergil's childhood may be seen by a glance into the anonymous Auctor ad Herennium.

His farewell to Rome and rhetoric has been quoted in part above.

The second point seems to be that Cimber, though a teacher of rhetoric, was so ignorant of Greek, that while proclaiming himself an Atticist, he used non-Attic forms and vaunted Thucydides instead of Lysias as the model of the simple style.

Then, like Vergil, he seems to have turned from rhetoric to philosophy, from philosophy to poetry, and to poetry of the Catullan romances, as a matter of course.

In this passage Horace employs the categories of the standard text-books of rhetoric of that day which were accustomed to classify styles into four types: (1) Grand and ornate, (2) grand but austere, (3) plain and austere, (4) plain but graceful.

The present comprehensive use of the term is but an extension of the Middle-Age division of the liberal arts into the Trivium,Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectics,and the Quadrivium,Arithmetic, Music, Geometry, and Astronomy,as expressed in the verse, "Lingus, tropus, ratio, numerus, tenor, angulus, astra.

There are some people whose rhetoric consists of a slight habitual understatement.

By Henry N. Day, Author of "Elements of the Art of Rhetoric."

Chip recognized the salutation with a superb nod, but without the accompaniment of any verbal rhetoric which was audible above the buzz of the pavement; and the retired millionnaire passed on about his business.

He read with marvellous rapidity, skipping as if by instinct everything that was unimportant; avoiding the rhetoric, the commonplaces, the falsities; glancing only at what was new, what was true, what was suggestive, he had a distinct object in view; but it was not to amuse himself, nor to compare author with author; it was simply to increase the sum of his own knowledge.

1. Is there not a goodly part of the wool-stapler's craft, as well as of the art of rhetoric, compressed into that one sentence by the hydraulic power of Shakespeare's genius?

The reasonings of Messrs. Pinckney, Wise, and Leigh, are now found to be wholly at fault, and the chanticleer rhetoric of Messrs. Glascock and Garland stalks featherless and crest-fallen.

Of course similes and figures of rhetoric were lugged in by the heels in every sentence, as is the all but universal practice on such occasions in every part of the world.

There are, to be sure, some flowers of rhetoric in the way.

"Philosophy of Rhetoric, p. 188.

Grammar of Rhetoric, p. 42.

It may here be added, that, according to their definitions of personification, our grammarians and the teachers of rhetoric have hitherto formed no very accurate idea of what constitutes the figure.

"Blair's Rhetoric, p. 157: see also Murray's Gram., i, 347.

"Jamieson's Rhetoric, p. 48.

"Adams's Rhetoric, Vol.