The mysterie of rhetorique unvail'd...
By: by John Smith.
Series: British and continental rhetoric and elocution -- Reel 7, no. 72.
Publisher: Printed by E. Cotes for George Eversden at the Mayden-head in Pauls-Church-yard
Published: 1657
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Figures of speech; Expression
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Subtitle: Where in above 130 the tropes and figures are severally derived from the Greek into English, together with lively definitions and variety of Latin, English, scriptual examples pertinent to each of them apart. Conducing very much to the right understanding of the sense of the letter of the Scripture (the want whereof occasions many dangerous errors this day); emminently delightful and profitable for young scholars, and all other sorts, enabling them to discern and imitate the elegancy in any author they read, & c.

Authorship uncertain. "Wing attributes the work to John Sergeant [Wing S2582]. Halkett and Laing suggest him as possibly the author... Wrongly attributed to John Sergeant by Wing and others." -- NUC pre-1956 imprints, vol. 551, NS 0640557, NS 0640558, NS 0640560.

Pagination unreadable toward end.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1953. On reel 7 of 16 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (British and continental rhetoric and elocution ; Reel 7, no. 72).

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