Excerpt from A Commentary Illustrating the Poetic of Aristotle: By Examples Taken Chiefly From the Modern Poets, to Which Is Prefixed, a New and Corrected, Edition of the Translation of the PoeticBut if this was the cafe. When I ventured on the taik, it did' not long continue fo. My publication was foon followed by a tran¿ation of the Poetic from the pen of Mr. Twining: a work of diftinguiihed excellence, and which, had it appeared earlier, would probably have precluded any attempt of mine on the fame fubjeé't. For though Mr. Twining, with a modefty and candour ever attending on real merit, obferves of my tran¿ation, that in many places where we differ if I am right, he mufi be wrong, I am perfectly convinced, that in molt places where we differ, the contrary to what he puts hypothetically is in fact true. Yet, though I generally agree with his fentiments, as I do not always, I thought it neceffary to prefix an amended.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.