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Rh Expression: His Diction is not in the naked Terms of the Things he speaks of, but rather metaphorical, yet so easily are his Metaphors transferred, that You would not say they intrude into anothers Place, but that they step into their own.

The Bishop of Rochester is the correctest Writer of the Age, and comes nearest to the great Originals of Greece and Rome, by a studious Imitation of the Ancients: His Plainness and Accuracy, his Sublime and Oratory are equally laboured: His Life of Cowley, and his excellent Discourse to his Clergy, are admirable for the Modesty and Plainness, and inimitable Rh