LETTERS

May 25. 10

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, BLACKFRIARS,

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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