p. 80

Longinus. What he fays of Ballaft in Ships, ap-
plied to Rules of writing.
Lucan. In what particularly different from
Virgil.

M.

P.74

MACHIAVEL Redivivus. Inftances of the frange
Style of that Book.

P.86

Magical Phantoms. Some Styles refemble them.

P. 129

Magnefians. Involved in a long war by a difpute
of Orthography.
p.167
Manzini. What he fays of fententious Styles.

P. 127

Marcus Aurelius Severus. His horror of unjust

p. 18

Judges.
Marius. What Balfac fays of him confidered.

P. 144

Martial. His verfes on Scavola applied to fome
deviations from Rules.
p. 78
Metaphors. To be moderately used. 99, & feq.

p. 99

The right ufe of them farther confidered roz.
Ridiculous when too frequent. 106. Seldom
to be drawn from things not commonly known.
107. Frequent changes of them compared
to changing scenes on the Theatre.
Milton. Verfes of his applied to obfcure writers.
16, 126. Other verfes applied to over-firy
Authors. 14, 15. An inftance from him of a
p. 142
pleafing irregularity.
Mythology. Some Inftances of it applied to Rules
of Style.

N.

P. 45, 46.

NATURE. Not contrary to Rules. P. 44, 79, 80
Novelty of Style feldom commendable.

R 2

P.7.

O.

OBSCURITY of expreffions carefully to be avoided.

Old words to be rarely used.

p. 119, & feq.

p. 87
Osborn. Of his comparifons and metaphors.

p. 109

Otho. His dying advice to his Nephew, recom-
mended to writers.

P.

P.77

PASCAL. What he fays of ftudied Antithefes.
P. 170
Pliny the Hiftorian. Whether rightly criticized
by Bouhours. 147. What he fays of great
painters applied to writers. 122. His account
of a very ftrange Rock applied to fome wri-

ters.

P. 125
Pliny the younger. A faying of his applied against
judging of writers by their firft vogue. P. 4
Poetical expreffions very faulty in Profe. p. 38,
39. Inftances of fuch.
Ibid. & feq.

Pompey. A faying of his defended.
Port-Royal. The Style of those men.

Q

QUEVEDO. His verfes on Orpheus.

P. 143 ·
p.6

p. 155

Quintilian. His opinion of Metaphors. 98, 101,
102,214. Of Sentences. 32, 127, 212. Of
old or new words. 82, 191, 194. His cha-
racter of Seneca's Style,

R.

P.232

RAPIN. A large quotation from him, containing
all the chief Rules of Style.

p. 60

Rules,

Rules. Are particularly neceffary to great wits. 8.
They become eafy by ufe.

S.

1.81

SENTENTIOUS Styles fubject to great defects. 21,
127, &feq. In what fenfe fuch short Styles
may be called the longest.

P. 132, 133

P. 131

Solinus. His account of the Sideritis applied to
fome writers.
Sprat. His character of Cowley's Style. p. 50, 88
Stratonicus. His faying of Ships applied to Styles.

p. 134
Strength of Style not to be mistaken for Rage and
Extravagance.

Swimmers. Compared to bold writers.

T.

P. 14

p.20

TACITUS. His faying of Laws under Tiberius
applied to Rules of Style. 77.

Aftrologers applied to Critics.

His faying of

P.36
Taffo. His verfes of Dorinda applied. 46. Item
thofe of an army in array. 93. And of So-
phronia at the stake.
P: 175
Tefauro. The Rule he prescribes for Metaphors.
160, 161. Inftances of his metaphorical flights.
161. And of his jingling expreffions. p. 167
Torrents of Eloquence, compared with other
Torrents.
p. 134, & feq.

V.

VELLEIUS Paterculus. What he fays of the
Gracchi applied to fome writers.

p. 19

Vogue. Not always a fure proof of a good
writer.

3

P. 4, 5

Voiture.

246

Voiture. His art in fophiftical compliments. 146.
In what different from Balzac.

p.116
Vulteius. An Epigram of his how far excufa-

ble.

p. 158

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