Printed for W. CAVIL, T. MARTIN, T. FRENCH,
and J. WREN.

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CONTENTS.

MEMOIRS of the Life, Works, and Discoveries of

MARTINUS SCriblerus.

NTODUCTION to the Reader,

Pag. I

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 his birth,

CHAP. II. The fpeech of Cornelius over his fon at

the hour of his birth,

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13

CHAP. III. Shewing what befel the doctor's fon
and his field, on the day of the christening,

CHAP. IV. Of the fuction and nutrition of the

great Scriblerus in his infancy, and of the first

rudiments of his learning,

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26

CHAP. V. A differtation upon playthings,

CHAP. VI. Of the Gymnastics, in what exercifes

Martinus was educated; fomething concerning

Mufic, and what fort of a man his uncle was, 29

CHAP, VII. Rhetoric, Logic, and Metaphyfics,

CHAP. VIII. Anatomy,

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47

54

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

CHAP. X. Of Martinus's uncommon practise of

phyfic, and how he applied himself to the difeafes

of the mind,

CHAP. XI. The cafe of a young nobleman at court,

with the Doctor's prefcription for the fame, 58

CHAP. XII. How Martinus endeavoured to find

out the feat of the Soul, and of his correfpon-

dence with the Free-thinkers,

CHAP. XIII.

63

CHAP. XIII. Of the feceffion of Martinus, and~

70

fome hints of his travels,

CHAP. XIV. Of the difcoveries and works of the

great Scriblerus, made and to be made, writ-

ten and to be written, known and unknown, 71

MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS, NEPI BA@OYZ: or, Of

the Art of Sinking in Poetry,

СНАР. І.

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

natural taste of man, and in particular of the

prefent age,

CHAP. III. The neceffity of the Bathos, phyfically

confidered,

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,

CHAP. VI. Of the feveral kinds of Geniufes in

the Profund, and the marks and characters of

each,

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

the thought,

CHAP. VIII. Of the Profund, confifting in the

circumftances, and of amplification and peri-

phrafe in general,

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

tating,

78

ib.

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

the variegating, confounding, and reverfing

Figures,

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

nifying and diminishing Figures,

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97

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CHAP. XII.

CHAP. XII. Of expreffion, and the feveral forts

· of Style of the prefent age,

CHAP. XIII. A project for the advancement of

the Bathos,

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125

128

CHAP. XIV. How to make Dedications, Panegy-

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

able and Difhonourable,

CHAP. XV. A 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 caftigationum in Æneidem
fpecimen.

MEMOIRS Of P. P. Clerk of this Parish,

Of the Poet Laureate, Nov. 19, 1729.

GUARDIANS.