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"Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres"
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Date: 1783
"Secondly, The pleasure of Comparison arises from the illustration which the simile employed gives to the principal object; from the clearer view of it which it presents; or the more strong impression of it which it stamps upon the mind: and, thirdly, It arises from the introduction of a new, and...
preview | full record— Blair, Hugh (1718-1800)