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Rh be dispersed and shine in all the Parts thro' the whole Performance, but there is no Necessity of Writing in Trammels, when we can move more at ease without them; neither is the Proportion of Writing to be measured out like the Proportions of a Horse, where every Part must be drawn in the minutest Respect to the Size and Bigness of the rest, but it is to be taken by the Mind, and formed upon a general View and Consideration of the Whole. The Statuary that carveth Hercules in Stone, or casts him in Brass may be obliged to take his Dimensions from his Foot, but the Poet that describeth him is not Rh