"There is a certain string, which, being properly struck, the human heart is so made as to answer to it."
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
29 entries in ESTC (1783, 1784, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1793, 1796, 1798). See also <u>Heads of the Lectures on Rhetorick, and Belles Lettres</u> (1767, 1771, 1777) and abridgments of the lectures as <u>Essays on Rhetoric</u> (1784, 1785, 1787, 1789, 1793, 1797, 1798).<br>
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See <u>Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. By Hugh Blair</u> (London: Printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell; and W. Creech, in Edinburgh, 1783): &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/N5887">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;. See also Dublin edition of same year in ECCO-TCP: &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004786433.0001.001">Link to Vol. I</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004786433.0001.002">Vol. II</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004786433.0001.003">Vol. III</a>&gt;. Revised and corrected for second edition of 1785.<br>
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Reading <u>Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres</u>, eds. Linda Ferreira-Buckley and S. Michael Halloran (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2005). Text based on second edition of 1785.