ISBN: 9780217023122

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1742. Not illustrated. … Meer...

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1742. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The fecond is the Rule of Contrariei: It is certain the lefs a Man is endu''d with any Virtue, the more need he has to have it plentifully beftow''d, efpecially thofe good qualities of which the world generally believes he hath none at all: For who will thank a Man for giving him that which he has? The Reverfe of thefe Precepts w.ill ferve for Satire, wherein we are ever to remark, that whofo lofeth his place, or becomes out of favour with the Government, hath forfeited his mare in publick Praife and Honour. Therefore the truly-publick-fpirited writer ought in duty to ftrip him whom the Government hath ftripped: which is the real poetical Juflice of this age. For a full collection of Topicks and Epithets to be ufed in the Praife and Difpraife of Minifterial and Unminifterial Perfons, I refer to our Rhetorical Cahinet; concluding with an earneft exhortation to all my brethren, to obferve the Precepts here laid down, the neglect of which hath, coft fome of them their Ears in a Pillory. CHAP. XV. . A Receipt to make an Epic Poem. A N Epic Poem, the Critics agree, is the greateft work human nature is capable of. They have already already hid down many mechanical rules for competitions of this fort, but at the fame time they cut off almoft all undertakers from the poffibility of ever performing them; for the firft qualification they unanimoufly require in a Poet, is a Genius. fhall here endeavour (for the benefit of my Countrymen) to make it manifeft, that Epiq Poems may be made without a Genius, nay without Learning or much Reading. This muft neceflarily be of great ufe to all thofe who confefs they never read, and of whom the world is convinced they never learn. Moliere obferves of making a dinner, that any man can do it toith Money, and if a profefs''d Cook cannot... John Arbuthnot, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Miscellanies (volume 2) Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217023122

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