. The arts of logick and rhetorick : illustrated by examples taken out of the best authors, antient and modern, in all the polite languages. THE. PREFACE. Have [aid, in the Epifile Dedicatory^that Sir Samuel Garth pu 7ne uponthis delicate and difficult Work j andhis Name only is fufficient to excufe mefor the Boldnefs of the Attempt, everyBody knowing that Gentleman was asgood a Critick as he was a Poet; and that what hethought necejfary for the Improvement of Letters mufineeds be fo. I am not fo vain as to think it was for my Abilitiesthat he gave me this Hint; but he knew very well twould fp
. The arts of logick and rhetorick : illustrated by examples taken out of the best authors, antient and modern, in all the polite languages. THE. PREFACE. Have [aid, in the Epifile Dedicatory^that Sir Samuel Garth pu 7ne uponthis delicate and difficult Work j andhis Name only is fufficient to excufe mefor the Boldnefs of the Attempt, everyBody knowing that Gentleman was asgood a Critick as he was a Poet; and that what hethought necejfary for the Improvement of Letters mufineeds be fo. I am not fo vain as to think it was for my Abilitiesthat he gave me this Hint; but he knew very well twould fpare no Fains to collet Materials, and had fucka Colkufion by me. 1 T was his Opinion, that both Authors and Readershad but a confus d Notion of the Variety and Juflnefs ofThought, and that this Confufton was a great Impedi-ment to the Pleafure and Profit we meet with in theWorks of the Ingenious. THE Defign of Pere Bouhours is to form the Judg*ment, not by dry and rigid Rules only, but by the Beau^ties and Blemifhes of the inofi celebrated Writers, ancientand modern. Corneille complains, that Ariftodctreated of Poetry too much like a Philo
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