I have made an oopsy.
And therfore, my Lord, it ſeems very much to the purpoſe, ſince you govern and preſide in all ſignal Actions, that you never content your ſelf with a Mediocrity in things which are good and laudable; and ſince you have nothing of mean and vulgar, that you ſhould alſo cheriſh, above all others, the honour and reputation of poſſeſſing a Bibliotheque, the moſt perfect, the beſt furniſh’d and maintain’d of your time.[…]But you, my Lord, who have the reputation of knowing more then can be taught you, and who deprive your ſelf of all ſort of contentments, to enjoy, and plunge your ſelf, as it were, in the pleaſure which you take in courting good Authors; to you it is that it properly attains, to poſſeſs a Bibliotheque, the moſt auguſt, and ample, that hath ever been erected: to the end it may never be ſaid hereafter, that it was only for want of a little care which you might have had, that you did not beſtow this Piece upon the Publique; and of your ſelf, that all the actions of your life had not ſurpaſſed the moſt heroick exploits of the moſt illuſtrious perſons.
I want to swim the 200-yard breaststroke in the finals.
In a word, the Epiſodes of Homer are complete Epiſodes; they are proper to the ſubject, because they are drawn from the ground of the fable; they are ſo joined to the principal action, that one is the neceſſary conſequence of the other, either truly or probably: and laſtly, they are imperfect members which do not make a complete and finiſhed body; for an Epiſode that makes a complete action, cannot be part of a principal action; as is eſſential to all Epiſodes.
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