Aray

LETTERS

ON

LITERATURE,

TASTE,

AND

COMPOSITION,

ADDRESSED TO HIS SON,

BY GEORGE GREGORY, D.D.

LATE VICAR OF WEST-HAM, DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO

THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF, &c. &c. &c.,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,

BRIDGE-STREET, BLACK FRIARS.

1808.

T. Gillet, Crown-court,

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

LETTER XX.

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Narration.-Description

LETTER XXI.

History. - Antient Historians. - Scripture His-

tory-Herodotus.-Thucidydes.--Xenophon.

-Polybius.-Sallust.-Livy-Tacitus. -Com-

nena.-De Thou.-Davila.--Modern History.
-Buchanan. -Clarendon. --- Rapin.-Lyttle-
ton.-Hume.-Robertson.---Gibbon,

LETTER XXII.

Annals. - Chronicles. — Memoirs. -- Biography,

&c.-Froissart.-Holingshead. --Stow.-Cæ-
sar.-- Princess Anna Comnena.--Alberquer-

que.-Ludlow.-Whitlock. – Burnet. — Dal-

rymple.--Nepos.- Plutarch.-Diogenes Laer-

tius. Suetonius. - Bayle. — Dr. Johnson. -

Biographic Britannica

LETTER XXIII.

Voyages and Travels.—Anson.--Hawkesworth.

-Addison. — Burnet.--Lady M. W. Monta:

gue. --Johnson. — Fictitious Narrative. - The

Xenophons.-Cervantes. -Le Sage.-Field-

ing. --Smollett. -Sterne: -D'Arblois. ---Rad-

cliffe.-Swift.--De Foe.--Mrs. Hamilton.-

Epistolary Writing. — Cicero. — Pliny. — Se-

neca. --Balzac. — Voiture.- Pope, &c.—Dia-

logue. --- Plato. Cicero. --Lucian. - Horne

Tooke,

LETTER XXIV.

Description and Origin of Poetry.—Metre.-..

Rhyme.--English Metres

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