Printed for W. Cavil, T. Martin, T. FRENCH,

and J. WREN

MDCCXCV.

CON TEN T S.

MEMOIRS of the Life, Works, and Discoveries of

MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS.

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NTODUCTION to the Reader, Pag. I

Chap. I. Of the parentage and family of

Scriblerus, how he was begot, what care was

taken of him before he was born, and what

prodigies attended bis birth,

6

Chap. II. The speech of Cornelius over his son at

the hour of bis birth,

13

Chap. III. Shewing what befel the doctor's son

and his field, on the day of the christening,

CHAP. IV. Of the suction and nutrition of the

great Scriblerus in his infancy, and of the first

rudiments of his learning,

20

Chap. V. A dissertation upon playthings,

26

Chap. VI. Of the Gymnastics, in what exercises

Martinus was educated; something concerning

Music, and what sort of a man his uncle was, 29

CHAP, VỊI. Rhetoric, Logic, and Metaphysics, 37

CHAP. VIII. Anatomy,

47

CHAP. IX. How Martinus became a great Critic, 53

Chap. X. Of Martinus's uncommon practise of

physic, and how he applied himself to the diseases

of the mind,

54

Chap. XI. The case of a young nobleman at court,

with the Doctor's prescription for the same,

58

CHAP. XII. How Martinus endeavoured to find

out the seat of the Soul, and of bis correspon-

dence with the Free-tbinkers,

84

Chap. XIII. Of the fecefson of Martinus, and
Some hints of his travels,

70

Chap. XIV. Of the discoveries and works of the

great Scriblerus, made and to be made, writ-

ten and to be written, known and unknown, 71

MARTINUS SCRIbLERUS, EPI BADOYŁ: or, Of

the Art of Sinking in Poetry,

78

CHAP. I.

ib.

Chap. II. That the Bathos, or Profund, is the

natural taste of man, and in particular of the

present age,

Chap. III.

The necessity of the Bathos, pbyfically

confidered,

83

CHAP. IV. That there is an Art of the Bathos,

or Profund,

CHAP. V. Of the true Genius of the Profund,

and by what it is constituted,

86

Chap. VI. Of the several kinds of Geniuses in

the Profund, and the marks and characters of

each,

91

Chap. VII. Of the Profund, when it confifts in

the thought,

94

Chap. VIII. Of the Profund, consisting in the

circumstances, and of amplification and peri-

phrase in general,

97

Chap. IX. Of Imitation, and the manner of imi-

Chap. X. Of Tropes and Figures: And first of

the variegating, confounding, and reverhing

Figures,

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Chap. XI. The Figures continued : of the mag-

nifying and diminishing Figures,

CHAP. XII.

tating,

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CHAP. XII. Of expreffon, and the several forts

of Style of the present age,

117

CHAP. XIII. A project for the advancement of

tbe Batbos,

125

CHAP. XIV. How to make Dedications, Panegy-

rics, or Satires, and of the colours of Honour-

ab and Dishonourable,

128

Chap. XV. Å receipt to make an Epic Poem, 131

Chap. XVI. A project for the advancement of

the Stage,

135

VIRGILIUS RESTAURATUS ; feu MARTINI SCRIB-

LERI fummi critici castigationum in Æneidem

fpecimen.

Specimen libri primi,

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Liber secundus,

144

A specimen of SCRIBLER US's Reports.

Stradling versus Stiles,

MEMOIRS of P. P. Clerk of this Parish,

Of the Poet Laureate, Nov. 19, 1729.

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