ON THE 33893

SUBLIME:

Tranflated from the GREEK, with

NOTES and OBSERVATIONS,

AND

Some Account of the LIFE, WRITINGS,
and CHARACTER of the AUTHOR.

By WILLIAM SMITH, A M.
Rector of TRINITY in Chester.

Thee, great Longinus! all the Nine infpire,
And fill their Critic with a Poet's Fire;
An ardent Judge, who, zealous in his Trust,
With Warmth gives Sentence, and is always juft;
Whofe own Example strengthens all his Laws,
And is himself the great Sublime he draws.

Mr. POPE.

The SECOND EDITION, Corrected and Improved.

LONDON:

Printed for B. DoD, at the Bible and Key in Ave-Mary Lane
near Stationers-Hall. MDCC XLIII.

1743

To the Right Honourable

GEORGE

EARL of MACCLESFIELD,

Viscount PARKER of EWEL ME, and Baron PARKER of MACCLESFIELD.

MY LORD,

T

HE greatest Degree of Purity and Splendor united, that LONGINUS has for

fome Ages appeared in, was