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and Strength, shedding a Lustre and Beauty on the Work. For it ought never to be used, but when it giveth greater Force to the Sentence, an Illustration to the Thought, and insinuateth a silent Argument in the Allusion. The Use of Metaphors is not only to convey the Thought in a more pleasing Manner, but to give it a stronger lmpression, and enforce it on the Mind. Where this is not regarded, they are vain, and trifling Trash; and in a due Observance of this, in a pure, chaste, natural Expression, consist the Justness, Beauty, and Delicacy of Style.