Pierre Nicole

INTRODUCTION

AN ESSAY ON TRUE AND APPARENT BEAUTY IN WHICH FROM SETTLED

PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

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The Augustan Reprint Society

An Essay on True and Apparent
Beauty in Which From Settled Principles
is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing
and Rejecting Epigrams

by Pierre Nicole

Translated by J. V. Cunningham

Publication Number 24
(Series IV, No. 5)

Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1950

GENERAL EDITORS

H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles

ASSISTANT EDITORS

W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
John Loftis, University of California, Los Angeles

ADVISORY EDITORS

Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
Benjamin Boyce, University of Nebraska
Louis I. Bredvold, University of Michigan
Cleanth Brooks, Yale University
James L. Clifford, Columbia University
Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
Ernest Mossner, University of Texas
James Sutherland, Queen Mary College, London