CONTENTS
TO THE
ART OF SINKING IN POETRY.
| Chap. I. INTRODUCTION | Page 3 |
| II. That the bathos, or profund, is the natural taste of man, and in particular of the present age | 6 |
| III. The necessity of the bathos physically considered | 7 |
| IV. That there is an art of the bathos or profund | 9 |
| V . Of the true genius for the profund, and by what it is constituted | 11 |
| VI. Of the several kinds of genius in the profund, and the marks and characters of each | 16 |
| VII. Of the profund, when it consists in the thought | 19 |
| VIII. Of the profund, consisting in the circumstances; and of amplification and periphrase in general | 22 |
| IX. Of imitation, and the manner of imitating | 25 |
| X. Of tropes and figures: and first of the variegating, confounding, and reversing figures | 29 |
| XI. The figures continued: of the magnifying and diminishing figures | 34 |
| XII. Of expression, and the several sorts of style of the present age | 41 |
| XIII. A project for the advancement of the bathos | 49 |
| XIV. How to make dedications, panegyrics, or satires, and of the colours of honourable and dishonourable | 52 |
| XV. A receipt to make an epick poem | 54 |
| XVI. A project for the advancement of the stage | 58 |
