Sect.
Authors. Pag. | Sect.
Authors. Pag.
40 Of Livius, Nævius, and Ennius Spence. 345 100 On Allegories
Felton, 379
41 Plautus
346 | 101 the Sublime
379
42 Terence
346 | 102 Rules of Order and Proportion
380
43 Afranius
347 | 103 A Recapitulation
381
44 Pacuvius and Actius
347 104 How to forin a right Taste
381
45 the Rise of Satire; of Lucilius,
105 Taste to be improved by Imi-
&c.
348
tation
382
46 the Criticisms of Cicero, &c. 348 106 On the Historical Style
383
47 the flourishing State of Poetry
107 Of Herodotus and Thucydides
383
among the Romans
349108 - Sallust and Livy
383
48 Observations on the Æneid
350 | 109 Their Use in Style
49 Of Horace
-- 351
110 On Spenser and Shakespeare
385
50
Tibullus, Propertius, and Orid 351 11 Milton and Philips
385
51 · Phædrus
352 112 Great Men usually cotemporary Blair. 386
52 Mapilius
352113 Four Ages marked out by the
53 the Poets whose Works have
Learned
386
not come down to us
353 | 114 Reputation of the Ancients
386
54 Fall of Poetry among the Ro-
115 not owing to Pedantry
387
353116 Moderns excel the Ancients
387
55 Lucan
353 117 Excellencies of the Ancients and
56 His Description of a Sea-fight
354
Moderns
389
57 Of Persius
355 118 Assiduous Sturly of the Greek and
56 --- Silius, Statius, and Val. Flaccus-
355
Roman Classics recommended
388
59 Martial
356 119 Excellencies of the aucient His-
60 Juvenal
357
torians
359
61 The Introduction, &c. of Arts at
120 Livy
353
Rome
357 121 Tacitus
389
62 The Condition of the Romans in
122 On the Beauty of Epistolary
the second Punic War
-358
Writing
390
63 Marcellus's Attack on Syracuse
358 123 Carelessness in it to be avoided
390
64 Conquests of the Roman Generals 359 124 On Pliny's Letters
390
65 Introduction into Italy of the Works
125 Cicero's
390
of the ancient Artists
360 126 Pope's and Swift's
391
66 Decline of the Arts, Eloquence,
127 On the Letters of Balzac, Voiture, &c. 391
and Poetry, on Augustus's Death- 361 128 Pindar the Father of Lyric Poetry- 392
67 On Demosthenes
Blair. 362 129 On Horace as a Lyric Poet
392
68 Demosthenes imitated Pericles
362 130 - Casimir, and other modern
69 contrasted with Æschines
363
Lyric Poets
392
70 On the Style of Demosthenes
363 131 the different Kinds of Poetical
71 Cicero, his Eloquence
363
Composition in the Sacred
72 his Defects
364
Books; 1st. of the Didactic 392
73 and Demosthenes compared 365 132 Of the Elegiac aud Pastoral
993
74 Means of improving in Eloquence 366 133 On the Lyric
393
75 Industry recommended to a Speaker 367 134 A Diversity of Style and Manner
76 Attention to the best Models
367
in the different Composers of
77 Caution in chusing Models
367
the sacred Books.
78 Style of Bolingbroke and Swift
368 On Job, David, and Isaiah
393
79 Eloquence requires frequent Ex-
135 Jeremiah
394
ercise
568 136 --- the Book of Job
394
80 Use of Critical and Rhetorical
137 the Iliad of Homer
395
Writers
368 138 - Odyssey of Homer
305
81 Use of the original ancient Writers- 369 139 Beauties of Virgil
396
82 Necessity of a Classical Education Felton. 369 140 Homer and Virgil compared
396
83 On the Entrance to Knowledge
370
141 On the ancient Writers Blackwall, 397
84 The Classics recommended
370 142 Homer
398
85 Greek and Roman Writers compared 371 143 Theocritus
398
86 Commendation of the Latin Tongue 373 14.1 Herodotus
399
87 Directions in reading the Classics 373 | 145 Livy
399
88 The Method of Schools vindicated 374 146 Beauties of Herodotus and Livy
89 Commcndation of Schools
374 147 Perspicuity a principal Beauty of
90 On forming a Style
875
the Classics
400
91 Expression suited to the Thought 375 | 148 On Cicero
400
92 On Embellishinents of Style
375 | 149 On the Obscurities in the Classics 400
93 Mastery of Language
376 150 Advantages enjoined by them
401
94 the Purity and Idiom of Lan-
151 Ancients Care in selecting Num-
guage
376
bers
403
95 Plainness and Perspicuity
377 152 On their making Sound an Echo
96 the Decoration, &c. of Style 377
to the Sense
403
97 Metaphors and Similitude
378 153 Translations from them imperfect- 404
98 Metaphors
378 154 Peculiar Excellence of the Specches
99 - Epithets
379
of the Grecks and Romans
405