The mystery of rhetorick unveil'd : Wherein above 130 of the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English; together with lively definitions, and a variety of Latin, English, scriptural examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and other of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c
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Type of record: Book
Title: The mystery of rhetorick unveil'd : Wherein above 130 of the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English; together with lively definitions, and a variety of Latin, English, scriptural examples, pertinent to each of them apart. Eminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and other of all sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, &c
Other titles: Mysterie of rhetorick unvail'd
Classmark: BC Lt d/SER
Creator(s): Smith, John (fl. 1657)
Additional creator(s): Sergeant, John (1622-1707) (Other)
Related people: Sergeant, John
Publisher: printed for George Eversden
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1683
Language: English
Size and medium: [32], 244(i.e. 234), [6] p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/272119
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991018155119705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Half-title facing title page reads: A companion for the ingenious.
Paging irregular: p. 97-106 omitted.
Wing (1st ed.) attributes the work to John Sergeant but 2nd ed. gives author as John Smith of Montague Close.
Wing S4116D.
Additional description
With signatures on title page of J. Birkbeck jun. and others. Quarto leaf inserted loose contains 23 Latin examples in ms signed J. Jatham, 1809
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