Since He fustains, and animates the Whole;
In all apparent, wife, and good in all;
From seeming Evil ftill educes Good,
And better thence again, and better ftill,
In infinite Progression. - But I lose
Myfelf in Him, in Light ineffable !
Come then, expressive Silence, muse his Praise.

Hymn on the Seasons, ver. 107.

BUT 'tis Time to return to our Critic, who is come now to SECTION XLIV. and the last. In which, as a Conclufion to this Treatife, LONGINUS inquires - Whence it came to pass that in his Day there was fuch a Scarcity of truly excellent and fublime Writers? - And concludes it owing to their not having the fame Liberty and Encouragements to excell, as the Ancients had; and to the different Views of that Age, who strove rather to vye with each other in Riches and Luxury than Learning and Virtue.

BUT how much more laudably partial is our Sublime THOMSON towards some of his Contemporaries and Country-men!

HAPPY BRITANNIA! High is thy Renown
In Sages too, far as the facred Light
Of Science Spreads, and wakes the Muje's Sang.
Thine is a BACON form'd of happy Mold,
When Nature smil'd, deep, comprehensive, clear,
Exact, and elegant; in one rich Soul,
PLATO, the STAGYRITE, and TULLY

join'd.

What need I name thy BOYLE, whose pious Search Still

Still fought the great Creator in his Works,
By fure Experience led? And why thy LOCKE,
Who made the whole internal World his own?
Let comprehensive NEW ΤΟΝ speak thy Fame,
In all Philofophy. For folemn Song

Is not wild SHAKESPEAR Nature's Boast and

thine?

And every greatly amiable Muse

Of elder Ages in thy MILTON met?

His was the Treasure of two thousand Years

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Seldom indulg'd to Man'; a God-like Mind,

Unlimited, and various, as his Theme;

Astonishing as Chaos; as the Bloom

Of blowing Eden fair; soft as the Talk

Of our Grand Parents, and as Heaven SUBLIME.

Summer, ver. 604.

With This, SIR, I return you your Trea tife, and am,

Your most humble Servant,

J. H.

QUES

QUESTIONS to be answer'd by the Text of the First Book, being that Part which is to be committed to Memory.

WHAT is Rhetoric?

What is it's Principal End?

What is it's chief Office?
What is the Subject it treats on?
How many Parts hath Rhetoric?
2. WHAT is Invention?

On what are all Arguments grounded, and
from whence are they to be fought?

What are Reasons to do?
What are Morals to do?

What are Affections to do?

2. WHAT is Difpofition?

How many Parts are there in an Oration, and in what Order should they stand, and how may they easily be remember'd? How many, and what are the Parts of a Theme, and how may they easily be remember'd?

2. In what doth Elocution confift? and,
What are it's Parts?

What doth Composition regard?
What doth Elegance confift in?

What mean you by Dignity of Language?..

2. What is the Difference between Tropes and

Figures?

What is a Trope?

How many, and what are the Chief Tropes

in Language?

What

QUESTIONS to be answer'd, &c.

What is a Metaphor? an Allegory? a Metonymy? Synecdoche? an Irony? an Hyperbole? a Catachrefis ?

How many, and what are the Faults of Tropes?

2. WHAT is a Figure?

How many, and what are the Principal Figures in Speech ?

What is an Ecphonefis? an Aporia? Epanorthosis? Apofiopefis? Apophafis? Apoftrophe? Anastrophe? an Erotefis? Prolepfis? a Synchoresis? Metabasis? Periphrafis? a Climax? Afyndeton? an Oxymoron? Enantiofis? Parabole? Hypotypofis? Profopopæia? Epiphonema?

How many, and what are the Faults of Figures?

2. WHAT are Repetitions or Turns?

How many, and what are the Principal
Repetitions?

What is Anaphora? Epistrophe? Symploce?
an Epizeuxis? Anadiplofis? Epanalepfis?
Epanados? Ploce? a Polyptoton? Antana-
clafis? Paranomafia? Paregmenon? Ho-
moioteleuton? Synonymia?

What is to be observ'd in the Use of Repetitions?

2. WHAT is Pronunciation?

What are the Parts of Pronunciation?

In the Delivery of an Oration, what is to be observ'd as to Voice?

What is to be observ'd as to Action?

Upon the Whole, What must be done to make

ourselves acceptable Orators?

AN

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

OF THЕ

TROPES, FIGURES, and TURNS, in

both Books; directing to the Place where they're
explain'd with Examples.

Note, The Numbers I, II, shew the Books; and 1, 2, 3, &c.

Anthropopathía I. 42.