"Rhetorically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the full meaning of that much abused word. They lowered its value aesthetically, ethically (at least in Pigault's case, while Ducray's morality does not go much above the "Be amiable and honest" standard), logically, rhetorically, and in a good many other ways. But they did not merely increase the number of its readers; in so doing they multiplied correspondingly the number of its practitioners, and so they helped to make novel-writing a business and—through ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
