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Ritical Reflections on Poetry, Painting, and Musick. With an Enquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients. Written in French by the Abbé Du Bos, Member and perpetual Secretary of the French Academy. Translated into English by Thomas Nugent, Gent. from the Fifth Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged by the Author, 3 Vols. Octavo. 1748.  N. B. In this Work the Rise, Progress, and Perfection of these several Arts are fully discussed; An historical Account is given of the most eminent Artists in the several Kinds; the peculiar Excellencies, in which each excelled, are explained; and the Criterions are laid down, by which the Readers is instructed how to judge of the Works of the greatest Masters, both ancient and modern, in Poetry, Painting, Music, Sculpture, and of the other Parts of polite Literature.

2. A Complete History of the several Translations of the Holy Bible and New Testament, into English, both in MS. and Print; and of the most remarkable Editions of them since the invention of Printing. By, A. M. Chaplain to the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Malton, and Minister of Margate in Kent. The Second Edition, with large Additions. Octavo.

3. Instructive and entertaining Novels; designed to promote Virtue, good Sense, and universal Benevolence: Enriched with great Variety of curious and uncommon Incidents and Events, exceeding pleasant and profitable. Translated from the original Spanish of the inimitable, Author of Den Quixote, by Thomas Shelton; with an Account of the Work; by a Gentleman of the Middle-Temple, in Duodecimo.

4. A short Treatise upon Arts and Sciences. French and English, by Question and Answer. The third Edition; enlarged with an infinite Number of Things, both curious and instructive; A Work very useful to those who desire to improve themselves in the French Tongue, containing a great Variety of Subjects. By, French-master to their Royal Highnesses the Duke, the Princess Mary, and the Princess Louisa. Octavo.

5. Three Treatises. The first concerning Art; the second concerning Music, Painting, and Poetry; the third concerning Happiness; by, 1744.