Page:A Dissertation on Reading the Classics and Forming a Just Style.djvu/178

134 our Thoughts or Eyes; Nothing is wanting, every Thing is complete, and we are satisfied in Beholding.

But, my Lord, when I speak of Order and Proportion, I do not intend any stiff and formal Method, but only a proper Distribution of the Parts in general, where they follow in a natural Course, and are not confounded with one another. Laying down a Scheme, and marking out the Divisions and Subdivisions of a Discourse are only necessary in Systems, and some Pieces of Controversy and Argumentation; Your Lordship sees, however, that I have ventured to Write without any Rh