Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Longinian tradition
- Part II Rhapsody to rhetoric
- 11 The spectator, (1712-1714)
- 12 A discourse on ancient and modern learning (1734)
- 13 Characteristicks (1714)
- 14 The works (1724)
- 15 To David Fordyce, 18th June 1742
- 16 The pleasures of imagination (1744)
- 17 An essay on the sublime (1747)
- 18 Observations on man (1749)
- 19 Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews (1753/1787)
- 20 A dictionary of the English language (1755)
- 21 Conjectures on original composition (1759)
- 22 The art of speaking (1761)
- 23 A course of lectures on oratory and criticism (1777)
- 24 An enquiry concerning the principles of taste (1785)
- Part III Irish Perspectives
- Part IV The Aberdonian Enlightenment
- Part V Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Part VI From the Picturesque to the Political
- Sources and further reading
20 - A dictionary of the English language (1755)
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Longinian tradition
- Part II Rhapsody to rhetoric
- 11 The spectator, (1712-1714)
- 12 A discourse on ancient and modern learning (1734)
- 13 Characteristicks (1714)
- 14 The works (1724)
- 15 To David Fordyce, 18th June 1742
- 16 The pleasures of imagination (1744)
- 17 An essay on the sublime (1747)
- 18 Observations on man (1749)
- 19 Lectures on the sacred poetry of the Hebrews (1753/1787)
- 20 A dictionary of the English language (1755)
- 21 Conjectures on original composition (1759)
- 22 The art of speaking (1761)
- 23 A course of lectures on oratory and criticism (1777)
- 24 An enquiry concerning the principles of taste (1785)
- Part III Irish Perspectives
- Part IV The Aberdonian Enlightenment
- Part V Edinburgh and Glasgow
- Part VI From the Picturesque to the Political
- Sources and further reading
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- The SublimeA Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory, pp. 111 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996
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