ON

RHETORIC

AND

BELLES LETTRES.

BY HUGH BLAIR, D.D. & F.R.S.E.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC
AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARDSON & Co.; SHARPE & SON; BALDWYN & CO. ;
W. BAYNES & SON; G. OFFER: W. ROBINSON & SONS, LIVERPOOL:
BARCLAY; LAWSON; AND BURDEKIN, YORK: WHYTE & CO. AND
1. BROWN, EDINBURGH ALSO GRIFFIN & CO. AND WYLIE, GLASGOW.

1823.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

Page

LECT.

XXXV. Comparative Merit of the Ancients and

the Moderns-Historical Writing

XXXVI. Historical Writing

XXXVII. Philosophical Writing-Dialogue-

Epistolary Writing-Fictitious His-

tory

XXXVIII. Nature of Poetry-Its Origin and Pro-

gress-Versification

XXXIX. Pastoral Poetry-Lyric Poetry

XL. Didactic Poetry-Descriptive Poetry

XLI. The Poetry of the Hebrews

XLII. Epic Poetry

XLIII. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey— Virgil's

Eneid

XLIV. Lucan's Pharsalia-Tasso's Jerusalem

-Camoens'Lusiad-Fenelon's Tele-

machus-Voltaire's Henriade-Mil-

ton's Paradise Lost

XLV. Dramatic Poetry-Tragedy

XLVI. Tragedy- Greek-French-English

Tragedy

XLVII. Comedy-Greek and Roman-French

-English Comedy

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