UPON

Accuracy of Style.

In FIVE DIALOGUES.

CONTAINING

The Chief Rules to be obferved

for obtaining an Accurate

Style.

Of the too frequent Ufe of An-

tithefes.

Of the Ufe of Metaphors.

Of Affectation in Style.

Of Flashy Styles.

Of the Ufe of Foreign Words.

Of the Laconick Style.

Of the Long Style.

Of Novelty of Style.

Of Poetical Expreffions used in

Profe.

With Brief OBSERVATIONS interspersed thro' the Whole, on

MILTON,

COWLEY,

SPRAT,

DENHAM,
DRYDEN, &C.

many other Curious Particulars referred to in the INDEX..

ARISTOTLE,

LONGINUS,

QUINTILIAN,
CICERO,

TACITUS,

And

Of the Ufe of Obfolete Words.

Rapin's Rules of Style.

Of Obfcurity in Writing.

On Harmony of Sound.

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 Oddnefs of

Expreffion, Metaphors,

c.

TASSO,
BOILEAU,

BOUHOURS,

RAPIN,

VOITURE,

By Mr. JOHN CONSTABLE,
Author of the Converfation of Gentlemen, &c.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for JOHN HAWKINS, at the Falcon in St. Paul's
Church-yard. M. DCC. XXXVIII.

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THE

PREFACE

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Long and uniform discourse, with a series of abftract Rules, foon tires and fatigues the Reader. Efpecially if you add the frequent Definitions, Divifions, and Terms of Art, which have naturally place in fuch a difcourfe; and above all, the tedious Accuracy of Analytical Tables, and the like Schemes. A meer diftinction of Chapters ferves but little in fo dry a method of reafoning, and does not fufficiently unbend the application. The Reader is apt to be diffatisfied with hearing the

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