Publication Number 24 (Series IV, No. 5)

Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California 1950

Why men's judgments on beauty differ so much.

How seldom it charms in echoing the sense, how commonly by sweetness. Its natural measure in the ear.

Pleasantness of sound is justly exacted of poets. The harshness of many poets, particularly the German. Some are too melodious.

How diction should be suited to subject-matter.

In what way diction should answer to man's inner nature. First, the grounds of the natural disaffection with unusual diction: how far this should be observed.

The inner and more intimate agreement of words and nature.

On a too metaphorical style. Certain epigrams rejected for this reason.

Truth, the primary virtue of ideas. How great a fault there is in untruth. Thence, of false epigrams.

On Joan of Arc, who is called "La pucelle d'Orleans"

On mythological epigrams.

On puns.

On hyperbolical ideas.

On debatable and controvertible ideas.

The second virtue of ideas, that they should agree with the inner nature of the subject; and thence on ideas foreign and accidental to the subject.

In what way ideas are to be made agreeable to men's character. On avoiding offense; and, first, on obscenity.

On the cheap subject-matter of some epigrams.

On spiteful epigrams.

On wordy epigrams.

On trifling wit, and plays on words.

In what way natural inclinations are to be gratified.

The origin of the name epigram. Its definition, form, and laws.

The material of epigrams; thence the division into different kinds. The first kind and the second.

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