Works of Dionysius Longinus on the Sublime or a Treatise Concerning the Sovereign Perfection of Writing
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780766169609
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; Ancient, Classical & Medieval
First sentence: YOu may remember, Terentianus, that upon our reading over together Cecilius's little Treatife concerning the Sublime, we agreed, That the Stile did not anfwer the Dignity of the Subject; That the priricipal Points in that Argument were not touched upon; and, in fhort, That fuch a Work could not be of any great advantage to the Reader, which is yet the main thing every Writer ought to have in view: Befides that, in the treating of any Art, there are two things always to be confider'd; the firft is, to make one's Subject rightly underftood; the fecond, which tho' not in order, yet in effect is firft, confifts in pointing out the methods by which the thing we fpeak of may be attain'd.