Illustrated with a great Variety of

EXAMPLES from the best ENGLISH POETS;

AND OF

TRANSLATIONS from the ANCIENTS:

Together with such

REFLECTIONS and critical REMARKS as may tend to
form in our Youth an elegant TASTE, and render
the Study of this Part of the BELLES LETTRES
more rational and pleasing.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the Bible and Suu
in St. Paul's Church-yard.

M DCC LXII.

Republished in 1969 by Gregg International Publishers Limited

Westmead, Farnborough, Hants., England

Printed in offset by Franz Wolf, Heppenheim/Bergstrasse
Western Germany