DIONYSIUS LONGINUS

ON THE

SUBLIME:

TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK.

WITH

NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS,

AND SOME

ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRITINGS, AND CHARACTER

OF

THE AUTHOR.

BY WILLIAM SMITH, D.D.

DEAN OF CHESTER.

Thee, great Longinus! all the Nine inspire,
And fill their critic with a poet's fire;
An ardent judge, who, zealous in his trust,
With warmth gives sentence, and is always just;
Whose own example strengthens all his laws,
And is himself the great Sublime he draws.

M. POPE

THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED AND IMPROVED

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