POLITE LITERATURE. 



CONTENTS. 



I. Some Hints concerning the State of Science at the Revival 

 of Letters, grounded on a Pajage of Dante in his Inferno, 

 Canto IV. V. 130. By the Right Honourable the Earl of 

 Charlemont, Prefident of the Royal Irijh Academy, andF. R. S. Page 3 



II. Refedions on the Choice of Subjeds for Tragedy among the 



Greek Writers. By William Prejlon, Efq; M. R. I. A. - 13 



III. An Effay on the Variations of Englijh Profe, from the Revolu- 

 tion to the prefent Time. By Thomas Wallace, A. B. and 

 M. R. I. A. ; to which was adjudged the Gold Prize Medal 

 propofed by the Royal IriJh Academy for the beji Effay on 



that Subjea - - " ' ' "*' 



IV. On the Poetical Charader of DoBor Goldfmith, By the 

 Rev. Archdeacon Burrowes, late Fellow of Trinity College, 



Dublin, and M. R. I. A. - - * . 7« 



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