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THAT MR. ADDISON defigned to write particularly upon the Subject of the following Effay, we learn from his 321ft SPECTATOR. And what Pity was it that he only defigned it!

An ESSAY upon

MILTON'S IMITATIONS

OF THE

ANCIENTS,

IN HIS

PARADISE LOST.

With fome Obfervations on the

Paradife Regain'd.

Quando ex Poematibus Gracis vertenda imitandaque funt infignet fententia, non femper, aiunt, enitendum ut omnia omnino ver ba in eum, in quem diéta funt, modum vertamus.

Scite ergo confiderate Virgilius, quum aut Homeri, aut Hefiodi, aut Apollonii, aut Parthenii, aut Callimachi, aut Theocriti, aut quorumdam aliorum locos effingeret, partim reli quit, alia expreffit.

Aul. Gellius.

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Printed in the Year MDCCXLI.

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16

A N

ESSAY

UPON

MILTON'S IMITATIONS

OF THE

ANCIENTS, &c.

RISTOTLE afcribes the Origin of POETRY to the Pleasure Mankind takes in IMITATIONS, which diftinguishes us from all other Creatures, and makes us Lovers not only of this ART, but PAINTING and SCULPTURE. This Pleasure arifes from the Comparison the Mind makes betwixt the Imitation and the Thing imitated: For Example, in a Pic

ture