Deformity: an essay / By William Hay.

  • William Hay
Date:
1754
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Credit: Deformity: an essay / By William Hay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mental as well as perfonal Imperfections s and expofe them naked to the World. And when I have thus anatomized my felf, I hope my Heart will be found found and untainted, and my Intentions honefi: and iincere. * 3 Longinus fays, that Cecilius wrote of the Sublime in a low Way: on the con¬ trary, Mr. 4 Pope call Longinus c The * great Sublime he draws.* Let it be my Ambition to imitate Longinus in Style and Sentiment: and like Cecilius, to make thefe appear a Contrail to my SubjeCt: to write of Deformity with Beauty : and by a finifhed Piece to atone for an ill- turned Perfon. B a If s In the Beginning of his Treatife on the Sublime.' 4 In his Effay on Criticifm,
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