We are sorry for the satire interspersed in some of these pieces upon a few people, from whom the highest provocations have been received, and who, by their conduct since, have shown, that they have not yet forgiven. us the wrong they did. It is a very uvlücky circumstance to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of such authors, whose works are so soon forgotten, that we are in danger already of appearing the first aggressors. “It is to be lamented, that Virgil lei pass a fine, which told posterity he had two enemies called Bavius and Mæviits. The wisest way is not once to name them, but (as the madman advised the gentleman, who told him he vrore. a sword to kill his enemies) to let them alone and they will die of themselves. And according to this rule we have acted throughout all those writings, which we de.. signed for the press: but in these, the publication whereof was not owing to our folly, but that of others, the omission of the names was not in our power. At the worst, we can only give them that liberty now for: something, which they have so many years exercised for nothing, of railing and scribbling against us. And it is some commendation, that we have not done it all this while, but avoided publicly to characterise any person without long experience. Nonum prematur in annum is a good rule for all writers of characters; because it may happen to those, who vent praise or censure too precipitately, as it did to an eminent English poet, who celebrated a young nobleman for erecting Dryden's monument upon a promise, which his lordship forgot, till it was done by apother.

In regard to two persons only, we wish our raillery, though ever so tender, or resentment, though ever so just, had not been indulged. We speak of Sir John Van

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DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

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A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES.

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VOLUME XXIII.

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Preface to the Miscellanies, by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope,
*Advertisement to a Fourth Volume,
*Advertisement to the Fifth and Sixth Volumes,
Martinus Scriblerus Περι Βαθους : or the Art of Sinking in Poe-

try,
*Advertisement,
*Introduction to the Memoirs of Scriblerus,
Gontents of the Memoirs,
*Memoirs of Scriblerus,

MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS Ilegi Balous.
CHAP. I. Introduction,
Il. That the Bathos, or Profound; is the natural Taste of

Man, and in particular of the present age,
III. The Necessity of the Bathos physically considered,
IV. That there is an art of the Bathos or Profound,
V. Of the true Genius for the Profound, and by what it is

constituted,
VI. Of the several kinds of Genius in the Profound, and

the Marks and Characters of each,
VII. Of the Profound, when it consits in the Thought,
VIII. Of the Profound, consisting in the Circumstances; and

of Amplification and Per phrase in general,
IX. Of Imitrion, and the Mann:r of Imitating,
X. Of Tropes and Figures: and first, of the variegating,

confounding, and reversing Figures,
XI. The Figures continued : of the magnifying and dimi-

nisbiog Figures,

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