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56. 57. 58. T. Fuga atat : ata fragia, qoy : 67, (197.) faceti See Hobbes' Digest of Aristotle Rhetorics, p. 80 "That a certain force and elegance resulted from the use of figurative expression - whether of thought and speech." -De-oratore (III, 202-5) Literary Criticism in Antiquity Atkins, Quoted from page 34. Demetrius : On Style, Translated by T. A. Moxon, p. 258-259. 50. "That figures of speech were invented, not for ornament, but as an aid to expression, and for uttering obliquely, that which would offend if plainly expressed.” (Controversive)-Literary Criticism in Antiquity, by Atkins, page 152 Befas 1 62. “Figures, judiciously employed, play an important part in producing sublimity.”—Longinus - 'On the Sublime.' Translated by H. L. Havelie, Everyman's Library, page 289. "A figure (as is indicated by its very name) is a form of speech differing from the common and ordinary mode of expression.'-Institutes of Oratory or the Training of an Orator' by Quintlian : translated by J. S Watson, page 145. “They (Figures) were departures from the normal way of saying things, fertilizers of language, which relieved the tedium of every day speech and transformed it into a vechicle for the highest and loftiest truth, stealing their way secretly into the minds of readers. They excited emotions, made for clearness and elegance, gavo to expression variety and beauty, which adding to style generally an element of novelty and fine surprise." Literary Criticism in Antiquity-Atkins, page 272. “A Figure is certain kind, either of sentence, oration ? 64. 56
