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ON

RHETORIC

AND

BELLES LETTRES.

By HUGH BLAIR, D.D. & F.R S. Ed.

ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

THE ELEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND;
AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH.

1809.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

LECT.

XXXV. COMPARATIVE Merit of the

Antients and the Moderns-

Hiftorical Writing

XXXVI. Hiftorical Writing

XXXVII. Philofophical Writing-Dialogue-

Epiftolary Writing-Fictitious

Hiftory

XXXVIII. Nature of Poetry-its Origin and

Progrefs-Verfification

XXXIX. Paftoral Poetry-Lyric Poetry

XL. Didactic Poetry-Defcriptive Po-

etry

XLI. The Poetry of the Hebrews

XLII. Epic Poetry

XLIII. Homer's Iliad and Odyfey-Virgil's

Eneid

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XLIV.

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