“Forthwith each hero tiptoe stood erect.1Other details follow which give us such a picture of the two boxers confronting each other for the fight, that it could not have been clearer had we been actual spectators.
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But since different
views have been held with regard to this art of
representation, I shall not attempt to divide it into
[p. 247]
all its different departments, whose number is
ostentatiously multiplied by certain writers, but
shall content myself with touching on those which
appear to me to be absolutely necessary. There is,
then, to begin with, one form of vividness which consists in giving an actual word-picture of a scene, as
in the passage beginning,
1 Aen. v. 426.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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