On the nature and immutability of TRUTH,
in oppofition to Sophistry and Scepticism.

On POETRY and MUSIC, as they affect the
Mind.

On LAUGHTER, and LUDICROUS COMPO❤

SITION.

On the Utility of CLASSICAL LEARNING.

BY JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D.
Profeffor of MORAL PHILOSOPHY and LOGIC in the
Marischal College and University of ABERDEEN.

Printed for WILLIAM CREECH, Edinburgh; and fos
E. & C. DILLY,

MDCCLXXVI.

London.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

AN ESSAY ON POETRY AND MUSIC,

AS THEY AFFECT THE MIND.

Poetry exhibits a fyftem of nature fome-

what different from the reality of

things,

CHAP. IV.

The fubject continued. Of Poetical cha-

racters,

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