DIALOGUES

Concerning

ELOQUENCE

IN GENERAL;

And particularly, that Kind which is
fit for the PULPIT:

By the late

Archbishop of CAMBRAY.

Falfe Eloquence, like the Prismatick Glass,
Its gaudy Colours Spreads on ev'ry Place:
The Face of NATURE, we no more furvey
All glares alike, without Diftinction, gay.
But true Expreffion like th' unchanging Sun,
Clear's and improve's whate'er it shines upon :
It gilds all Objects, but it alters none.

Mr. POPE's Effay on Criticism.

Fendon, François, de Lalignac

La mothe

DIALOGUES

Concerning

ELOQUENCE

IN GENERAL;

And particularly, that Kind which is
fit for the PULPIT:

By the late

Archbishop of CAMBRAY.

WITH HIS

LETTER

TO THE

FRENCH ACADEMY,

Concerning
RHETORIC,POETRY,HISTORY,

AND

A Comparison betwixt the ANTIENTS
and MODERNS.

Tranflated from the FRENCH, and illuftrated
with NOTES and QUOTATIONS;
WILLIAM STEVENSON, M. A.
Rector of Morningthorp in Norfolk.

By

LONDON:

Printed by T. Wood, for J. WALTHOE, Jun. over-against
the Royal Exchange in Cornhill. MDCC XXII.

de

848 F332 ts848

are the late Archbishop of CAM BRAY's. Some Apology however may be expected for my Undertaking a Tranflation that deferv'd the finest Pen. All I can say, without the Appearance of Vanity, is, that I was afraid it fhou'd fall into worfe Hands. I have more reason to make fome Excufe for the unufual Liberty I have taken in tranflating the DIALOGUES. 'Tis what I cou'd not avoid. Their Stile is extremely concife; fometimes

A 3