ELEMENTS OF CRITICISM. BY HENRY HOME, LORD KAMES, JUDGE OF THE COURT OF SESSIONS IN SCOTLAND, &c. &c. WITH ANALYSES. AND TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT AND FOREIGN ILLUSTRATIONS. EDITED BY ABRAHAM MILLS, A. M. AUTHOR OF AN IMPROVED EDITION OF ALISON ON TASTE, ETC. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK: MASON BROTHERS, 6 & 7 MERCER STREET. 1860. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by JAMES CONNER and WILLIAM R. COOKE in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Diatrict of New York 801 412e 1860. cop: 2 EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE present edition of Lord Kames' Criticisms was prepared, and is now offered to the public, with a view to facilitate the use of the work, and to render it more acceptable to general readers. To effect the former object, an analysis has been placed at the head of each chapter; and to effect the latter, translations, either original or selected, have been affixed to the numerous passages introduced as illustrations, from the Latin and Italian languages. The editor deems it unnecessary to enter into any process of argument, by which to justify the course he has pursued in the preparation of the present work; as in all matters of practical utility, the only just judgment that can possibly be formed must necessarily rest on practical effects: and though he would be sorry to arrogate any superiority to himself, or to his own obser vation, yet there may, perhaps, be no impropriety in saying, that the result of the experience of many years arduously devoted to the business of instruction is, a thorough conviction that only by presenting a subject to the mind in its leading features, and as one whole, can students obtain a clear and comprehensive view of it. Too much dependence however, in the use of the work, must not be placed upon the analyses; for it is by no means intended that because of them is less of the work to be learned: 1* 1036605 リ |