单词 | the colours of rhetoric |
释义 | > as lemmasthe colours of rhetoric 15. In plural. Rhetorical figures or devices; ornaments or embellishments of style and diction intended to persuade the reader or listener. Frequently in the colours of rhetoric. Now chiefly historical.In later use not discussing Renaissance rhetoric, e.g. quots. 1876 and 1987, increasingly merging into extended metaphors of sense 1a (cf. sense 1c). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > embellishment > an) ornament(s) coloursc1405 rhetoricc1425 gaudc1430 flower1508 flourish1603 embellishment1632 flosculation1651 floscule1669 gayness1670 floresa1734 taga1734 c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Squire's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 31 It moste been a Rethor excellent That koude his colours longyng for that Art If he sholde hir descryuen euery part. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 15 I lerned neuere Rethorik..Colours ne knowe I none. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 256 Colouris and figuris of spechis. a1500 tr. La Belle Dame sans Mercy (Cambr.) l. 844 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 111 Full destytute Of eloquence, of metre, and colours. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. x. sig. Eiiiiv The maister in redynge them, muste well obserue and expresse the partis and colours of rhetorike in them contayned, accordynge to the preceptes of that arte before lerned. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M3, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) A Scheme..for the excellencie thereof is called the ornament, light and colours of Rhetoricall speech. 1655 in J. Mennes & J. Smith Musarum Deliciæ 72 He us'd no colour, nor no Rhetorick. 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More xx. 172 What is here produced is mere Rhetorical colour, no solid or substantial Argument. 1779 S. Johnson Milton in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets II. 162 The colours of the diction seem not sufficiently discriminated. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 32 The glowing colours of the historian in describing it. 1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay I. i. 16 Novelists who have more colours in their vocabulary than Turner had on his palette. 1922 Yale Rev. 11 36 With such postures of the cult of courtliness or religion nothing is possible but eloquence and the colors of rhetoric. 1987 P. Parker Lit. Fat Ladies vii. 139 The evocative ‘colors’ of rhetoric transform words into a picture which powerfully presents a scene to the receiver's gaze or view. 2008 J. Steen Verse & Virtuosity iii. 37 Elsewhere, in a punning reference to the colours of rhetoric, he explicitly characterizes poetic allegory—figura—as that which covers spiritual meaning. < as lemmas |
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