"But it is evident, that this creative faculty, the fancy, frequently lends her aid in promoting still nobler ends. From her exuberant stores most of those tropes and figures are extracted, which, when properly employed, have such a marvellous efficacy in rousing the passions, and by some secret, sudden, and inexplicable association, awakening all the tenderest emotions of the heart."
The Philosophy of Rhetoric
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1776).<br>
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<u>The Philosophy of Rhetoric. By George Campbell</u>, 2 vols. (London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T145750">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;