THE MIGHT AND MIRTH OF LITERATURE. A TREATISE ON FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. IN WHICH UPWARDS OF SIX HUNDRED WRITERS ARE TWENTY FIGURES ILLUSTRATED. EMBRACING A COMPLETE SURVEY, ON AN ENTIRELY NEW PLAN, OF ENGLISH AND WEAPONS OF ORATORY. BY JOHN WALKER VILANT MACBETH, professor of RHETORIC, HISTORY, AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1876. |