warned against the Delufion of a falfe XI. Nothing corrupts a good Tafte more than frequently reading the Italian Poets. A Criticism on the Amintà XII. Concerning the Ruins of PALMYRA. The great Affiduity of Mr. DAWKINS Tafte an Honour to our Country. A Conjecture that the Temple of the Sun was built by LONGINUS, from a fimi- larity of Tafte in other Arts. A Cri- ticifm upon the Ufe of the CORIN- THIAN Order only in that City. A Reafon why that Order was fo much admir'd there. A Paffage in Lon- to to Luxury, and of Luxury to a Cor- ruption of Tafte in Morals. A na- tional Corruption of Tafte in Morals XIII. Congratulations on her Marriage with XIV. Tafte for conjugal Joys express'd in XV. A Cenfure on that common, false, taste- lefs Remark, that we have now no Poets. An Eulogium on Dr. AKIN- Tafte and Genius in their respective To Letter To PHILE THES. P. 106 XVI. The wretched Taste of playing Tragedy till GARRICK reftored Nature to her lawful Empire on the Stage. A Criticifm on a line in Horace, mifunderstood by the generality of Commentators. A Comparison of GARRICK with the Roman Roscius. The Effect a well regulated Theatre has upon the Tafte of a whole Nation. To EUGENIO. p. 113 XVII. EUPHEMIUS's happy Tafte in Converfation. This Talent defcribed by Shakefpear in the Character of Biron. HOMER and DRYDEN ufe the fame Expreffion in defcribing the Grace of Speaking. Arefin'd Tafte herein acquired by Converfation with Women, inftanced in a Comparison betwixt VOITURE and BALSAC, whofe Writings are here contrafted. To ARISTUS. P. 119 XVIII. The graceful Manner of conferring Benefit as much admired in the Character of AGATHOCLES as the Deed of Charity itself. An emblematical Prelude of the beneficent Reign of OMAR, OMAR, an Emperor of the Saracens. That without a tasteful and tender Addrefs in relieving the Diftreffed, Munificence may encreafe their Mifery: inftanc'd in the remarkable Fate of PANDOLFO MALATESTA Sovereign of REMINI. That Nature herself will fuggeft this lenient Art to those who have Souls truly benevolent. P. 126 Letter TO CRITOPHILUS. XIX. What Addrefs and Taste of Compofition is required in Works of Criticifm. Able Scholars have mifcarried for want of this proper Delicacy: inftanc'd in Mr. ANTHONY BLACKWALL'S Introduction to the Claffics. A Cri ticifm on Paffages extracted from that Work, as Specimens of false Tafe and aukward Compofition.—The revival of true Criticism in the Writings of those three celebrated Geniules, the Author of Reflexions Critiques fur la Peinture et la Poefie; the Author of the Enquiry into the Life and Writings of HOMER; and the Author of the Notes and Commentary on HORACE's two critical Epiftles. What their Excellence confifts in. To |