ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES. BY HUGH BLAIR, D.D. AND F.R.S. Edin. ONE OF THE MINISTERS OF THE HIGH CHURCH, AND PROFESSOB OF RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. A NEW EDITION. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR BELL AND BRADFUTE, AND MUNDELL, DOIE, AND STEVENSON, EDINBURGH 1811. CONTENTS XXXV. Comparative merit of the Ancients and the Moderns-Historical Writing....I XXXVI. Historical Writing ---------------- 27 XXXVII. Philosopbical Writing-Dialogue Epistolary Writing-Fictitious His- XXXVIII. Nature of Poetry-Its Origin and Pro- gress-Versification . ...... 97 XXXIX. Pastoral Poetry–Lyric Poetry .... 107 XL. Didactic Poetry—Descriptive Poetry 137 XLI. The Poetry of the Hebrews ........ 165 XLIII. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey-Virgil's I XLIV. Lucan's Pharsalia—Tasso's Jerusalem |