which yet are only convenient, not necessary. And besides, he says, p.
100, and in other Places_, Une Episode est une partie necessaire de
l'Action: _And yet, p. 102_, Le premier plan de l'Action contient
_seulement ce qui est propre & necessaire_ à la Fable; _& n'a aucune
Episode. By which he_ seems at least _to allow that an Episode may not
be necessary._
[9] Τὸ μεν οὖν ἰδιον τοὖτο, τὰ δ' ἄλλα ἐπεισόδια. Poetic. Cap XVII.
[10] _The one is ἴδιον, the other is οἰκεῖον. The former is of a more_
close, restrained, _and_ peculiar _Signification, than the latter: The
former relating_ most properly _to a Man_'s Person; _the latter to his_
Possessions.
[11] _Preface to_ Homer.
[12] _Dedication of the Æneis._
[13] _See_ Bossu, _Chap. IX._
[14] _Upon the Article of_ Virgil's _Invention, see M._ Segrais _at
large in his admirable Preface to his Translation of the_ Æneis; _and
from him Mr_. Dryden _in his Dedication of the_ Æneis, _p. 226_, &c. _of
the Folio Edition._
[15] _Preface_ to Juvenal.
[16] Paradise lost, _Book VII._
[17] _Preface to Mr._ Pope's Homer.
[18] P. 142. _Second Edition._
[19] _P. 158._
[20] _Præl. Poet._ Vol. I. Præl. 2.
[21] _Verses before L._ Roscommon's _Essay. And Preface to his_ Virgil.
[22] _Preface to it._
[23] _Dr._ Swift _in his Letter to the Earl of_ Oxford.
[24] _Preface to his_ Virgil.
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Transcriber's Notes
Spelling: English spelling in the 18th century had many differences from
present-day spelling, and most of the spelling has therefore been
retained without alteration.
The following may also be correct, and have been retained:
"Excrescencies" (Preface p. xiii), "it self" (Preface p. xvii), "w'on't"
(Preface p. xxvii), "encountring" (Preface p. xliv, a quotation from
Milton PL Book 6), "forreign" (Preface p. xlviii), "litteral" (Preface
p. xv), "Scotish" (Preface p. xlviii), "grosly" (Preface p. xlix).
The spelling "Aeneid" is standard in the Introduction, and the spelling
"Æneid" is standard in the Preface.
The following more obvious typos have been amended: "parishoners" to
"parishioners" (Introduction p. iv) "mnch" to "much" (Preface p. xlv
line 14) "Transprosers" to "Transposers" (Preface p. xlviii line 23)
Missing period has been inserted on the following pages in the Preface:
p. xv (after "rest are Episodes"), p. xlii (after "Vertue to break it"),
and p. l (after "Erroneous").
Footnotes 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 and 15 in the Preface have been
particularly difficult to decipher.
Missing period has been added at the end of footnotes 5, 11, 15 and 19.
Incorrectly placed breathings and diacritics on diphthongs in the Greek
text have been correctly placed.
Inconsistent positioning of footnote numbers has been retained.