Reflections Upon Accuracy of Style

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REFLECTIONS

UPON

Accuracy of Style.

CONTAINING

The Chief Rules to be obferv'd] Of the Ufe of Obfolete Words.
for obtaining an Accurate Rapin's Rules of Style.

Style.

Of the too frequent Use of
tithefes.

Of the Ufe of Metaphors.
Of Affectation in Style.
Of Flashy Styles.

Of Obfcurity in Writing.
An-On Harmony of Sound.

Of the Ufe of Foreign Words.
Of the Laconick Style.
Of the Long Style.

Of Novelty of Style.

Of Poetical Expreffions used in
Profe.

French Writers not a Rule in
other Languages.

Vogue not always a fure Proof
of a good Writer.

Of the Beauties and Blemishes in
the Style of the late famous
Mr. COLLIER.

Of that Gentleman's Oddness of
Expreffion, Metaphors, &c.

With Brief OBSERVATIONS interfpers'd thro' the Whole, on

And many other Curious Particulars referr'd to in the INDEX.

By Mr. JOHN CONSTABLE.

Pars hominum vitiis gaudet conftanter, & urget
Propofitum: pars multa notat, modò recta capessens,
Interdum pravis obnoxia.

HOR. Sat. L.ii. Sat. 7.

LONDON:

Printed for J. OSBORN, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-
Nofter Row. M. Dcc. XXXIV.

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