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Kal. Febr. 1702.

Vale.

INDE X.

A

A.

CCURACY, Why more requifite in writing than in fpeaking. Pag. 62. The care of it not to be carried too far. 11,13, 57. The chief Rules of it fummed up. 58, 059, 60, 185, 200, 204.

Affectation. Difagreeable in Style as in Behaviour.

Antients. The best Masters of Style.

pag. 76

p. 81 Antithefis. Frequent ufe of it apt to lead into great faults of Style. P. 131 Arefius. An Emblem of his applied to Style.

P.79 Ariftotle. The moderation he requires in Metaphors. p. 51, 52. His reafon why they please. 98. What he fays farther of them. 108. His. comparing falfe reafonings to fophifticated wines. R. 171 Auguftus. A noted faying of his examined.

P. 152, 153

Authors. Why men are more apt to cenfure than to praise them.

P.34, 35

B.

BALZAC. How he differs from Voiture. p. 116.
His notion of a natural Style. 49. His com-
parifon of joining old words with new ones. 185
Inftances of his punning. 145. He makes a
fault greater by offering to correct it. p. 183
Baffianus. His ridiculous affectation of courage
compared to fome Writers.
Beauty of Style, in what it confifts.

p. 47

P. 173

Bellegarde. A criticifm of his examined. p. 165
Boileau. His directions for Rhyme, applied to
harmony in profe. p. 91, 97. His verfes on
extravagant flights. 114, 119. A Flight of
his compared with one in Almanzor. 149. What
he fays of Balzac.

P.73
Bouhours. Some of his criticisms to be read with

caution.

p. 148

C.

CALLICRATES. Inftances of the oddnefs of his

expreffions. p. 22, 23, 70.

His

ftrange mix-

Oddnefs of
P. 24, 25

ture of metaphors. 104, 110.
his feeming arguments
Cafa. What Balfac fays of his Style. P.49
Chryfippus. What Seneca fays of him, applied to
Seneca himself.

p. 130
Cicero. His comparing metaphors to clothes. p. 99
What he fays of Socrates, applied to fome
writers. 63. A faying of his wrongly criti-
cized by fome Antients.

Clafbing terms to be avoided. 164,
Cowley. His faying of Virgil. 41.

p.163
176, & feq.
Of Ovid. 150

D.

D:

p. 137

DELECTUS Epigrammatum. The preliminary dif-
course of it recommended.
P. 156
Denham's verfes of the Thames, a juft image of
a good Style.
Dodwel. His odd expreffions. 87. Of his long
periods.
Dryden. An inftance from him of a metaphor
finely carried on.

P. 135

P. 104

E.

ETYMOLOGIES. Inftances of ftrange ones. p. 192,

193

Evremont, (St.) whether rightly criticized by
Bellegar de.

p. 165

GALGACUS. His faying of the Romans applied
to excefs of Nicety in Rules.

P. 172

Germanicus. His Genius nicely commended by

Quintilian.

R

p.227

Gondomar.

Gondomar. His humourous excufe for his bad

Latin,

Grammar Rules to be exactly obferved.

H.

p.182

P. 180

HARMONY of Sound generally a great requifite
to a good Style. p. 89. When it may be lefs
exactly minded. 93, 94, 96. How to be at-
tained.

p. 90,92
Heliogabalus. His whim of gathering Cobwebs
compared with that of fome Criticks.
Hypocritical. What expreffions may be fo called.

1.

P. 180

P. 139

INDIES. Our Importations thence compared to
bringing foreign words into our language.

p. 83, 84
Jingling of words a great fault in Styles. p. 167
Irregular writers how they fometimes gain an
undeferved vogue.
p. 169, 202
Jupiter. Some Medals of him compared to fome

writers.

P. 44

P. 44

Juvenal. His verfes on Fountains applied to
natural fimplicity of Style.

L.

p. 9

LACONIC Styles fubject to great faults. p. 10, 21
Languages however different, muft in the main,
be under the fame Rules of Style.
Licentiousness of Style not to be mistaken for a
reafonable freedom.
Lipfius. His Style compared, with Callicrates's.

Long Styles often faulty..

p. 12

P.9
P. 132
Longinus.