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and <lt.iu us examples both froiu the Bit:
tu MI tone, with frequent refcrem c to the fathers of the Hum ! \nselm, G Hook I
di ,'iii -:t o at cjufi finis
& de partihus CJUS & ora In the third Book style and die-
tion, including trojtt* andjigures, are > work, how-
ever, notwithstanding certain signs of the approaching dawning of
the new If. i! mil. >till in the atm<. :lc Age*.
With Co\ i; latrr, in spite of the rudeness of the new
nacular in whu h he is working and thr elementary nature of his design, we feel ourselves in a new age.
lit-tucc-n 1: and Co\ there are two passages in I
lish literature relating to the art of rhet h arc M..
Other Passages '*' ne f rmt ' r f these, which is p I first printed
on Rhetoric account of rheton- passage
precedingCox. on the subject in Caxtn- - <>ur y dyscryficyo* of
Caxton. t f lf - soft/it. ft As
Grumaytf, Ktth / thfatteofmtn^ . 1481, which is of
sufficient < urinus interest to reproduce here in its entirety.'
1 UK red for publication in England, the Stationer's Kegtstc ) -ed.
Arhcr. 11. Khetorica cst doctrina bcne dicendi .... Parte cjo* do* Mint.
Elocutio \ I'roiuiir tie author claims that " invcntio rerum et dispo*
are ]>r<>pcrlv a part of Dialectics. Treats on i and Elocution: ch:<
Tropes an
Other treatises of a miscellaneous character relating to rhetoric are :
(///) Ars scribn is Jacobi I'ublu ffmori* J. i
With his Oral
(//) Albertanu .'us tit arte /<y*<Wi sSr tatrmJi, 1485. A
manual of the art ..( conversation. Mora
(o) Rhetorica Poncii. O.lophon : i : oocii
1486. Mainly an art o! writini; " Kpist..!.. s dictamtnU een-
tiales: Salutatio. Kx..nliuin, Narr.r . \ ("onclusio."
(/) I t rborttm. Bask <!edicatory (to l
dated "London 1512." Of vocabulary and diction. What authors help to "Copia." Vice.s of exr -vnonym*.
etc. Of Kahlc. Apologue, Description. Imanci
(<j) A<|uiU Komani ./< Fignris sfntfHtiamm tt tt*cmti**is liter. Venice 1 52 3. A list of the tiis'ure.s <>f rhetoric with dchnitionS.
(r) Jacobus Omphalius 7V /.!^ntionis /imitation* at Affirm!*. Pans 1537- Treats of Imitation as a means of a> . Ic.
'The \\otk is a translation by Caxton of the French version of the Sfecmlmm MunJL Hlades' Caxton^ II, 82-3. I quote from the reprint of circa
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