Longinus on the sublime by Longinus

Author:Longinus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shrimpton

• Speech on the Crown, p. 231, ed. Reiske.

'Book vi. ch. 21.

plurals into some fine-sounding designation in the singular, through the astonishment and surprise excited at the unforeseen transition, are presumed to spring from vehement emotion.*

* Thus in Macaulay we read that, after the acquittal of the Seven Bishops," as the news spread, streets and squares, market-places and coffee-houses, broke forth into acclamations.'' So again, when the report of William's wound at the battle of the Boyne reached Fiance, that "Paris was loused at dead of night by the arrival of a couiier who brought the joyful intelligence that the heretic, the parricide, the mortal enemy of the greatness of Fiance, had been struck dead by a cannonball in the sight of the two armies."

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