Item of the Day: The Art of Sinking in Poetry (1751)

Full Title: Miscellanies.  The Second Volume. By D. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Pope.  London, Printed for Charles Bathurst, and sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R. Dosley, and W. Bowyer.  MDCCLI.
Martinus Scriblerus,
П Е Р І   В А Θ О Υ Σ:
or, Of the Art of Sinking in Poetry.
[by Alexander Pope] 
CHAP. V.
Of the true Genius [...]