490 Eminence and Wit. [Book X, 



In fcvtral agreeable ideas, which muft be of courie 

 recalled*. 



* " Tte Tame kind of contra.ls and coincidences which in 

 low and corr.'c things would be wit and humour, become the bril . 

 liant pr.fiages that affefl and flrike us moil in grave poetry." 

 Hartley. 



Cmnia roflra, dum nafcuntur, placent." Quint. 1. x. c. 3, 

 The ailion of the mind in forming any work is pjeafing ; and even 

 'if it is fnch as carried with it a good deal of labour and confe- 

 ouer.'.Iy tome pain, we feel joy on perfecting it. 



