[12] Chap. 2. part 5.
[13] Philoctetes of Sophocles, act 4. sc. 2.
[14] Alcestes of Euripides, act 2. sc. 1.
[15] See this principle accounted for, chap. 25.
[16] Philoctetes of Sophocles, at the close.
[17] The chastity of the English language, which in common usage distinguishes by genders no words but what signify beings male and female, gives thus a fine opportunity for the prosopopœia; a beauty unknown in other languages, where every word is masculine or feminine.
[18] See appendix, containing definitions and explanation of terms.
[19] Æneid. iv. 173.
[20] Chap. 19.
[21] Dec. 1. l. 1.