Pomp, and the Sublime from Fuftian and Bom Of Puerilities. SECT. III. Of the Parenthyrfe, or ill-timed Emotion. Of the Frigid. SECT. IV. SECT. V. SECT. VI Whence thefe Imperfections take their Rise. Page t 4 6 8 ibid. 9 12 That a Knowledge of the true Sublime is attainable. 13 SECT. VII. Of Amplification. SECT. XI. SECT. XII. 31 That the Definition, which the Writers of Rhetoric give of Amplification, is improper. 32 That the best Authors ought to be our Models in Writing. 38 That Figures and Sublimity mutually affift one another. 50 That the Sublime with fome Faults, is better than what is correct and faultless without being Sublime. SECT. XXXIV. 78 By the preceding Rule Demofthenes and Hyperides are compared, and the Preference given to the former. 81 SECT. XXXV. That Plato is in all respects fuperior to Lyfias; and in general, that whatever is great and uncommon, fooneft raifes Admiration. SECT. XXXVI. 84 SECT. XXXIX. Of Compofition or Structure of Words. SECT. XL. 92 Of apt Connexion of the conftituent Parts of Difcourfe. 95 SECT. XLI. That broken and precipitate Measures debafe the Sublime. 97 That Words of Short Syllables are prejudicial to the SECT. XLII. That Contraction of Stile diminishes the Sublime. SECT. XLIII. That low Terms blemish the Sublime. SECT. XLIV. The Scarcity of fublime Writers accounted for. ibid. 98 ibid. 102 |