"Secondly, The pleasure of Comparison arises from the illustration which the simile employed gives to the principal object; from the clearer view of it which it presents; or the more strong impression of it which it stamps upon the mind: and, thirdly, It arises from the introduction of a new, and commonly a splendid object, associated to the principal one of which we treat; and from the agreeable picture which that object presents to the fancy; new scenes being thereby brought into view, which, without the assistance of this figure, we could not have enjoyed."
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.