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DISQUISITIONS on several subjects, by Mr. Jenyns,
EVESQUE, M. l'. History of Ruffia,

Continued,

Continued,

EURIPIDES, Tranflation of,

FILANGIERI Gaetano La Scienzia della Legislatione,
GENLIS. Adela & Theodore, or letters on education,

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ΓΕΩΠΟΝΙΚΑ Geoponicorum five de re rustica Libri XX.

illust. ab Jo. Nic. Niclas,

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GLASSE, Mr. Translation of Caractacus into Greek,

150

GRAHAM, Mrs. Macauley, History of England, Vol. V. VI.

account of,

38

HORNE, Mr. Letter to Lord Ashburton,

284

HUBER, M. his tranflation of the Abbe Winckelman's hif

tory of the polite arts of sculpture, painting, &c.

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Continued,

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HUNTER, Dr. Notice of publishing his book of coins, 148 HUTTON, Mr. History of the town of Birmingham,

390

JASSEUS, Nicander, Collection of Italian sonnets, translated

into Latin,

297

Continued,

379

INSCRIPTIONS. Account of the 41st volume of the History of

the Academy of,

41

JONES, William. The Moallakat, or seven Arabian poems, which were suspended in the Temple of Mecca,

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ISOCRATES, all his works translated into French, by L'Abbé

Augier,

45

LAVATER, M. Effay on Phifiognomy,

305

LISLE L'Abbé. Les Jardins, ou l'art d'embellir le paysages,

Poeme.

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• MACAULEY, vide GRAHAM.

MULLER'S History of Swisserland continued,

153

MILLES, Jeremiah, an Archæological Epiftle to him,

133

MILMAN, Francis, on the Scurvy and Putrid Fevers,

285

MULLER, John. Die Geschichte der Schweitzer, i. e. the

Hiftory of the Swifs,

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NARBONNE, the Count of, a Tragedy,

231

NARES, R. Essay on the Dæmon of Socrates,

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POTTER, Translation of Euripides,

401

PROOFS that Great Britain was successful against each of her

numerous enemies before the late victory of Sir George

Bridges Rodney,

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ROMAN Catholics. An Answer to a pamphlet, entitled " the

" present state of the Roman Catholics of England."

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Rossi, J. B. proposes publishing various readings of the Old

Testainent,

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ROUSSEAU, J. J. the Confeffions of, with the Reveries of the

Solitary Walker,

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ROWLEY, vide ChattertON.

RUSSIA, History of, by M. l'Evesque,

114

SERMON,

151

SERMON at Gloucester,

389

SIGNORELLI Pietro la Storia critica de Teatri Antiqui e

Moderni,

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SINCLAIR, John, Thoughts on the Nawal Strength of the

British Empire,

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SINCLAIR. Lucubrations during a short recess,

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SPAIN. Travels through, in 1777 and 1778.

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STAIR, John Earl of. Facts, and their consequences fubmit

ted to the confideration of the public at large,

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TUCKER Jofiah. Reflections on the present low price of

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VILLOISON, J. B. Caspar, d'Anse Anecdota Græca, 179 WALPOLE, Horace, Anecdotes of Painting in England, 355

WARTON, Dr. Essay on the genius and writings of Pope,

by Dr. Warton,

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WILLIAMS, Joseph, Confiderations on the American War, 48

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JUDGMENTS, EXTRACTS, &c.

For FEBRUARY, 1782.

ART. I. An Effay on the Genius and Writings of Pope,
Volume the Second.

T may be asked by those who have forgotten the works of the ancients upon crticism, or who have not happened to meet with the admirable third volume of Lord Monboddo's Origin of Language, what poffible purpose two volumes of comment upon Pope can serve? Has not every body read him? has not every body got him by heart ?

In the first place I answer, that if a good taste be nothing more than that which Voltaire has well defined it to be, the perfection of good fenfe, and the habit of quick decifion, in a mind well formed, a habit which, exercised in objects of literature, may afterwards be applied to other and higher purposes, it is of fome consequence that we should know why we like Pope, as well as that we do like him.

But there is something more: those admirers of Pope who admire him (as Dr. Warton I think says) just as they do Young, and for just the fame things, have produced, and are producing, so many bad imitations of him, we have so many illegitimate compositions of every kind, fuch numbers of people are every day quitting their cal

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works to tell us what a perfect poem is, and what it is

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Dr. Warton's book does this; and they who read it attentively, and confider why he praises and what he praises, will reap much instruction. They will be taught, amongst other things, that eternal but forgotten truth, that there are no fifth or fixth places in the arts, no diftinctions between the tolerable and the deteftable; but that which is not very good in poetry is unavoidably and from the nature of it very bad, not to be read through, not if poffible to be begun.

Having faid thus much in commendation of the utility of Dr. Warton's design, I shall now proceed to observe that no man ever sat down to examine the works of an other with the requifites which, to judge of him by the specimen which he has given of them in the work before us, he seems to possess. To a strong and unaffected attachment to the interests of virtue and religion, a mind naturally elegant and humane, a fine tafte, a confirmed judgment, and exquifite modesty, he seems to have united extensive, universal, and accurate classical learning in all its branches, an intimate acquaintance with the beauties or defects of the principal French and Italian writers, great love for the fine arts, grounded upon great knowledge of them, and what may perhaps appear more trifling, but is of real confequence, especially to a commentator on Pope, the habits and conversation of good company. It is not to be wondered at if the poffeffion of fuch materials should have tempted the Doctor to bestow more ornaments on his work than the title of it feems to promife. Accordingly, tho' it is calledonly a Review of the Life and Writings of Pope, it is in fact little less than a review of all our English and many of the ancient poets, interspersed with digressions upon many other subjects, and adorned with great variety of entertaining anecdote. Still, however, as most of these topics arife from and illuftrate the main subject, as there are none of them but what are important to taste, and many of them to morals, and as they are all treated in a moft masterly manner, I do not imagine that this will be looked upon as a defect, or that any body will quarrel

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