[3] Contrary to this rule, the introduction to the third volume of the Characteristics, is a continued chain of metaphors. These in such profusion are too florid for the subject; and have beside the bad effect of removing our attention from the principal subject, to fix it upon splendid trifles.
[4] See act 1. sc. 2.
[5] See chap. 7.
[6] See chap. 3.
[7] See the Introduction.
[8] Part I. essay 2. chap. 4.
[9] Poet. cap. 5.
[10] L. 2. De oratore.
[11] Ideoque anceps ejus rei ratio est, quod a derisu non procul abest risus. Lib. 6. cap. 3. § 1.
[12] See chap. 7.