"When I mention Figures, I must observe, that Men of critical Knowledge have justly distinguished between Figures of Speech, and Figures of the Sentiment; the former including Metaphor and all Translations of Phrases, and the latter consisting of such Breaks and Transitions in Discourse, as the Mind is known to make when under the Compunction of warring Passions."
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;