culation will, we believe, agree, that out of those Profits, the said Perfons might be fubfifted in a fober and decent manner. We will venture to affirm further, that not only the proper magazines of Thunder and Lightning, but Paint, Diet-drinks, Spitting-pots, and all other Neceffaries of Life, may in like manner fairly be vided for. pro 12. If fome of the Articles may at first view seem liable to Objections, particularly those that give fo vaft a power to the Council of Six (which is indeed larger than any entrusted to the great Officers of state) this may be obviated, by fwearing those Six Persons of his Majesty's Privy Council, and obliging them to pass every thing of moment previously at that most honourable Board. CONTENTS TO THE ART of SINKING in POETRY. CHAP. I. II. IN NTRODUCTION Page. 197 That the Bathos, or Profund, is the natural Taste of Man, and in particular, of the prefent Age 200 III. The Neceffity of the Bathos, phyfically confi dered 202 IV. That there is an Art of the Bathos or Pro 204. 206 fund V. Of the true Genius for the Profund, and by what it is conftituted VI. Of the feveral Kinds of Genius's in the Profund, and the Marks and Characters of each 212 215 VII. Of the Profund, when it confifts in the Thought VIII. Of the Profund, confifting in the Circumftances, and of Amplification and Periphrase in general IX. Of Imitation, and the Manner of Imitating 218 222 X. Of Tropes and Figures; and firft of the Va- riegating, confounding, and reverfing Fi- XI. The Figures continued: Of the magnifying Virgilius Restauratus: SE U MARTINI SCRIBLERI, Summi Critici, Caftigationum in Aeneidem SPECIMEN. AENEIDEM totam, Amice Lector, innumerabilibus poene mendis fcaturientem, ad priftinum fenfum revocabimus. In fingulis fere verfibus fpuriae occurrunt lectiones, in omnibus quos unquam vidi codicibus, aut vulgatis aut ineditis, ad opprobrium ufque Criticorum, in hunc diem exiftentes. Interea adverte oculos, et his paucis fruere. At fi quae fint in hifce caftigationibus, de quibus non fatis liquet, fyllabarum quantitates, προλεγόμενα noftra Libro ipfi praefigenda, ut confulas, moneo. |