"The use of these kind of Figures in Tragedy should be as free and bold as possible, and with Respect to Expression, no other Regard is to be paid to it, than to chuse such Words as may be most significantly picturesque, in order to have the more lively Effect on the Imagination, the Passions being then in a stronger Ferment when lively Images are presented to the Fancy."
Gray's-Inn Journal, No. 94
4 entries in ESTC (1756).<br>
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Text from <u>The Gray's-Inn Journal: In Two Volumes.</u> (London: Printed by W. Faden, for P. Vaillant, 1756. &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873546.0001.001">Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004873546.0001.002">Link to Vol. II</a>&gt;