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and  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

(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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