An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams

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1. 1An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which From Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams
2. 2Publication Number 24 (Series IV, No. 5) Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1950
3. 3INTRODUCTION
4. 4AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED PRINCIPLES IS RENDERED THE GROUNDS FOR CHOOSING AND REJECTING EPIGRAMS.
5. 5Why men's judgments on beauty differ so much.
6. 6How seldom it charms in echoing the sense, how commonly by sweetness. Its natural measure in the ear.
7. 7Pleasantness of sound is justly exacted of poets. The harshness of many poets, particularly the German. Some are too melodious.
8. 8How diction should be suited to subject-matter.
9. 9In what way diction should answer to man's inner nature. First, the grounds of the natural disaffection with unusual diction: how far this should be observed.
10. 10The inner and more intimate agreement of words and nature.
11. 11On a too metaphorical style. Certain epigrams rejected for this reason.
12. 12Truth, the primary virtue of ideas. How great a fault there is in untruth. Thence, of false epigrams.
13. 13On Joan of Arc, who is called "La pucelle d'Orleans"
14. 14On mythological epigrams.
15. 15On puns.
16. 16On hyperbolical ideas.
17. 17On debatable and controvertible ideas.
18. 18The second virtue of ideas, that they should agree with the inner nature of the subject; and thence on ideas foreign and accidental to the subject.

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