"These topics will, for the most part, be very extraordinary, and altogether unexpected; but they will constantly produce the intended effect. They will operate upon the mind by surprise; they will strike like lightening, and penetrate the heart at once."
— Duff, William (1732-1815)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly
Date
1767
Metaphor
"These topics will, for the most part, be very extraordinary, and altogether unexpected; but they will constantly produce the intended effect. They will operate upon the mind by surprise; they will strike like lightening, and penetrate the heart at once."
Metaphor in Context
We may farther observe, that a person endued with an ORIGINAL Genius for Eloquence, will at one glance, by a kind of intuition, distinguish and select the most proper, as well as most powerful topics of persuasion on every subject, and will urge them with irresistible energy. These topics will, for the most part, be very extraordinary, and altogether unexpected; but they will constantly produce the intended effect. They will operate upon the mind by surprise; they will strike like lightening, and penetrate the heart at once.
(p. 206)
(p. 206)
Categories
Provenance
C-H Lion
Citation
2 entries in ESTC (1767).
Text from William Duff, An Essay on Original Genius; and its Various Modes of Exertion in Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Particularly in Poetry (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1767). <Link to ESTC>
Text from William Duff, An Essay on Original Genius; and its Various Modes of Exertion in Philosophy and the Fine Arts, Particularly in Poetry (London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1767). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
07/01/2013
