On the HARMONY, VARIETY, and Power of The SECOND, On the NUMBERS of PARADISE LOST: By Mr. SAMUEL SAY. LONDON: Printed by JOHN HUGHS, near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. MDCCXLV. 1745 Englis 4.2 [iii] THE PREFACE. T may be proper to acquaint the Reader, that most of the following Poems were written in the Author's younger Years, chiefly as an Amusement from graver Studies, and never intended for the Press; But, after his Death, a Friend being desired to look over his Papers, and examine if there was any thing of the Poëtical kind, that might be acceptable to the Public, it was thought, on such Review, that this little Collection would be well received. ( 4 : If the Reader will turn to what the Author has faid in his Second Essay, p. 154, concerning the Idea he supposes HORACE to have pursued in his Satires and Epiftles with regard to the Numbers, he will know what to expect in the following Translations of some of the Epistles, viz. the pure and genuine Sense, without much Glofs or Ornament, yet the Accents still resting naturally on Those Words which are defign'd to be Emphatical. But where HORACE is Harmonious, the Tranfla |