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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1760 edition. Excerpt:..., mances, I blamed what is wrong, and pointed out the rules of the right, but I executed no great work like. your heroic poem. VIRGIL. Indeed my Horace, we have dwelt too long for ho» nest men, upon each other's praise, I grow ashamed of, it. let us cease the theme, THE END. ) INDEX O F PRINCIPAL MATTERS. A. ACADEMY (Trench) its rise and nature, Page 18j, 18S an English one proposed 191, 19 ABion, of what use in speaking 79, 8», 84, 8j--: it ought to be easy and natural 8. 8j not uniform 83.84 See hands, eyes, voice. Address os an orator, what kind most proper 9a Am Bros E's stile 1S9 Antients, their excellence 13S, 137. their way os expressing the passions 8j, 139. 30 their simplicity 117, 118, 13j, »3S, X37. 9 their desects »S8, 189, 190 Antitheses, fore'd ones childish "nil when proper ii. Afojlles unacquainted with the true Greek i»S, 15 their manner of preaching 133, 134 their irregular stile whence I4S beautiful than the evocation of spirits in the Odyssey, VIRGIL. My last books were neglected. I did not intend to have left them so impersect, you know I wanted to burn them. / HORACE. What pity it had been! that was an excess of delicacy, any one may see, that the author of the Geor gics could have finished the Eneid with the fame care, I do not so much mind that extreme exactness, as the elevation of genius, the oeconomy of the whole work, the strength and boldness of the painting, to deal ingenuously, if any thing hinders you from equalling Homer, it is your being more polished, more correct, more finished; but Jess simple, less strong, less sublime, for with a single touch he sets nature unveiled before our eyes, VIRGIL. I own I did some violence to simple nature, in ori der to adapt myself to the taste of a...