ON

POSSIT.

THE SUBLIME

IN WRITING ;

TRANSLATED:

WITH NOTES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED,

AND

THREE DISSERTATIONS.

54

MG Aurdeni

INTERIORA VELUT HUJUS SACRI ADEUNTIBUS APPAREBIT MULTA
RERUM SUBLIMITAS, QUÆ NON MODO ACUERE INGENIA PUERILIA,
SED EXERCERE ALTISSIMAM QUOQUE ERUDITIONEM ET SCIENTIAM

Quintil.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN.

NORWICH :

BACON, KINNEBROOK, AND BACON.

1836.

Gel 21.71

COLLEC

PRAVITRE

DEC 27 1907

LIKDARY

Constanteres fund

BACON, KINNEBROOK, AND BACON, NORWICH.

M23. 2

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

AUGUSTUS FREDERICK,

DUKE OF SUSSEX, K. G.

PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY;

THE PATRON OF LITERATURE AND SCIENCE,
THIS TRANSLATION

From the Author.

IS, WITH PERMISSION, HUMBLY INSCRIBED,

AS

A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE

FOR THE BENEFITS CONFERRED ON

LEARNING

AND ITS CULTIVATORS,

THROUGH HIS ILLUSTRIOUS PATRONAGE:

BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS'S

DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANT,

WILLIAM TYLNEY SPURDENS.