The improvement of the mind : containing a variety of remarks and rules for the attainment and communication of useful knowledge in religion, in the sciences, and in common life / by I. Watts.

Date:
MDCCLXXXV [1785]
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    with a ready wit, fo neither mud: you ima- gine that large and laborious reading and a drong memory can denominate you truly wife. What that excellent critic has deter- mined when he decided the queftion, whether wit or dudy makes the bed: poet, may well be applied to every fort of learn- ing : ]?g0 nec Jludium fine divite vend, Nec rude quid profit, video, ingenium: alterius fic Altera pofcit opem res, cf? conjurat amice. Hor. de Art. Poet. Thus made Englfij: Concerning poets there has been conteft. Whether they’re made by art, or nature bed:: But if I may prefume in this affair. Among the red my judgment to declare. No art without a genius will avail, And parts without the help of art will fail : But both ingredients jointly mud unite, Or verfe will never fhine with a tranfcendent light. Oldiiam. It