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SUBLIME:

Translated from the GREEK, with

NOTES and OBSERVATIONS,

AND

Some Account of the LIFE, WRITINGS, and CHARACTER of the AUTHOR.

By WILLIAM SMITH, A. M. Rector of TRINITY in Chefter.

Thee, great Longinus! all the Nine inspire,
And fill their Critic with a Poet's Fire;
An ardent Judge, who, zealous in his Truft,
With Warmth gives Sentence, and is always juft;
Whofe own Example strengthens all his Laws,
And is himself the great Sublime he draws.

Mr. POPE.

The SECOND EDITION, Corrected and Improved.

LONDON:

Printed for B. DoD, at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary Lane near Stationers-Hall. MDCC XLIII.

1743

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE

EARL of MACCLESFIELD,

Viscount PARKER of EWEL ME, and Baron PARKER of MACCLESFIELD.

under the Patronage of the late Lord MACCLESFIELD. A Writer of fo much Spirit and Judgment, had a just Claim to the Protection of so elevated a Genius, and fo judicious an Encourager of polite Learning. Longinus is now going to appear in an English Drefs, and begs the Support of Your LORDSHIP's Name. He has undergone no farther Alteration, than what was abfolutely neceffary to make him English. His Senfe is faithfully reprefented, but whether this Tranflation has any of the original