mutton, roafting of pullets, geefe, turkeys, &c. are the feveral modes of meat-roafting. And as the general Quality of meat-roasting, with its feveral modifications, as to beef, mutton, pullets, &c. does not inhere in any one part of the Jack; fo neither does Confcioufnefs, with its feveral Modes of fenfation, intellection, volition, &c. inhere in any one, but is the refult from the mechanical compofition of the whole Animal.

IBID. p. 123.

DIVERSITY OF GENIUSES.

I SHALL range thefe confined and lefs copious Geniufes under proper claffes, and (the better to give their pictures to the reader) under the names of Animals of fome fort or other; whereby he will be enabled, at the first fight of fuch as fhall daily come forth, to know to what kind to refer, and with what authors to compare them.

1. The Flying Fishes: Thefe are writers who now and then rise upon their fins, and fly out of the Profund; but their wings are foon dry, and they drop down to the bottom. C. G.

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2. The Swallows are authors that are eternally skimming and fluttering upand down; but all their agility is employed to catch flies. L. T. W. P. Lord H.

3. The Offriches are fuch, whofe heaviness rarely permits them to raife themfelves from the ground; their wings are of no ufe to lift them up, and their motion is between. flying and walking; but then they run very fafl. D. F. L. E. The Hon. E. H.

4. The Parrots are they that repeat another's words, in fuch a hoarse odd voice, as makes them feem their own. W. B. W. H. C. C.

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5. The Didappers are authors that keep themfelves long out of fight, under water, and come up now and then where you least expected them. L. W. G. D. Efq. The Hon. Sir W. r.

6. The Porpoifes are unwieldy and big; they put all their numbers into a great turmoil and tempeft; but whenever they appear in plain light (which is feldom) they are only fhapeless and ugly monfters. I. D. C. G. I. O.

7. The Frogs are fuch as can neither walk nor fly, but can leap and bound to admiration: They live generally in the bottom of a ditch, and make a great noife whenever they thrust their heads above E.W. L.M. Esq. T. D. Gent.

water.

8. The Eels are obfcure authors, that wrap themselves up in their own mud, but are mighty nimble

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nimble and pert. L. W. L.T. P.M. General C.

9. The Torteifes are flow and chill, and, like paftoral writers, delight much in gardens: they have for the most part a fine embroidered shell, and underneath it, a heavy lump. A. P. W. B. L.E. The Right Hon. E. of S,

These are the chief Characteristics of the Bathos: and in each of these kinds we have the comfort to be blessed with fundry and manifold choice Spirits in this our island.

THE ART OF SINKING IN POETRY,

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BATHOS.

THUS have I (my dear Countrymen), with incredible pains and diligence, discovered the hidden fources of the Bathos, or, as I may fay, broke open the Abyffes of this Great Deep. And having now established good and wholesome Laws, what remains but that all true moderns, with their utmoft might, do proceed to put the fame in execution? In order whereto, I think I fhall, in the fecond place, highly deferve of my Country, by propofing fuch a Scheme, as may facilitate this great end.

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As our number is confeffedly far fuperior to that of the enemy, there feems nothing wanting but Unanimity among ourfelves. It is therefore humbly offered, that all and every individual of the Bathos do enter into a firm affociation, and incorporate into One regular Body; whereof every member, even the meanest, will fome-way contribute to the fupport of the whole; in like manner as the weakest reeds, when joined in one bundle, become infrangible. To which end our Art ought to be put upon the fame foot with other Arts of this Age. The vast improvement of modern manufactures arifeth from their being divided into feveral branches, and parcelled out to feveral trades: For inftance, in Clockmaking, one artist makes the balance, another the fpring, another the crown-wheels, a fourth the cafe, and the principal workman puts all together: To this œconomy we owe the perfection of our modern watches; and doubtless we also might that of our modern Poetry and Rhetorick, were the feveral parts branched out in the like manner.

Nothing is more evident than that divers perfons, no other way remarkable, have each a strong difpofition to the formation of fome particular Trope or Figure. Ariftotle faith, that the Hyberbole is an ornament fit for young Men of Quality; accordingly we find in those Gentlemen a wonderful propensity towards it, which is marvellously improved by Travelling: Soldiers alfo and Seamen are very happy in the fame Figure. The Periphrafis

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or Circumlocution is the peculiar talent of Country Farmers; the Proverb and Apologue of old men at clubs; the Ellipfis, or Speech by half words, of Minifters and Politicians; the Apofiopefis, of Courtiers; the Litotes, and Diminution, of Ladies, Whifperers, and Backbiters; and the Anadiplofis, of common Criers and Hawkers; who, by redoubling the fame words, perfuade people to buy their oysters, green haftings, or new ballads. Epithets may be found in great plenty at Billingsgate, Sarcasm and Irony learned upon the Water, and the Epiphonema or Exclamation frequently from the Bear-garden, and as frequently from the Hear him of the House of Commons.

Now each man applying his whole time and genius upon his particular Figure, would doubtless attain to perfection: and when each became incorporated and fworn into the Society (as hath been" proposed) a Poet or Orator would have no more to do but to fend to the particular Traders in each Kind; to the Metaphorift for his Allegories, to the Simile-maker for his Comparisons, to the Ironift for his Sarcafms, to the Apophthegmatift for his Sentences, &c; whereby a Dedication or Speech would be compofed in a moment, the fuperior artist having nothing to do but to put together all the Materials.

I therefore propofe that there be contrived, with all convenient dispatch, at the public expence, a Rhetorical Cheft of Drawers, confifting of three Stories; the highest for the Deliberative, the middle for the

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