PARTI. PROS E.

SECTION I

GOOD-NATURED

dulity,

Percival,

Gold mith,

2 Alexander and Septimius,

3 The true enjoyments of life, Percival,

4 Laertes and Irus,

5 True and false happiness,

6 Remarks on converfation,

7 Importance of punctuality,

8 A noble inftance of gene-

rofity,

cre-

9 On difcretion,

10 A character,

11 Defcription of gentleness,

12 Conjugal affection exem-

plified,

13 On difputation,

14 Extremes in behaviour ri-

diculous,

15 Pity, an allegory,

16 Study of Aftronomy re-

commended,

20 Art of happiness,
21 Real greatness,
22 Pleasure and pain,
23 On drunkenness,
24 Truth and integrity,
25 Abfurd or unfeasonable be-

haviour,

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Spectator,
Spectator,
Guardian,
Rambler,

26 Honour compared with re-

ligion,

27 A winter-evening's con-
verfation,

Refnal,

Spectator,
Goldfmith,
Blair's Sermons,

Xenophon,
Spectator,

17 Temperance,

Spectator,

Spectator,

18 Methods of employing time, Spectator,

19 Impertinence in difcourfe, Theophraftus,

World,

Spe&ator,

Spectator,

Spectator,

Tillotson,

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6 Character of Q. Elizabeth,

7 Flattery,

8 Pyrrhus and Fabritius,

9 On demonftration,

10 Menalcas and Alexis,

11 Defcription of the amphi-

theatre of Titus,

12 Mr. Pultney's speech, on

the motion for reducing

the army,

13 Socrates and Glauco,

14 Providence vindicated,

15 Address to art,

16 Sir John St. Aubin's fpeech,

for repealing the prefent act,

17 Sir Robert Walpole's reply,

18 Receipt to make an epic

-poem,

19 Firmness of the emperor

Alexander Severus,

20 Reflections in Weftminster

Abbey,

21 Family pride ridiculed,

22 Eaft-India Company's ad-

drefs, on the junction of

Spain with France,

23 Damon and Pythias,

24 Califthenes's reproof of Cle-

Spectator,

Price,

Livy,

Robertfon,

Gibbon,

Hume,
Theophraftus,
Hooke,
Gravefende,
Geffner,

Gibbon,

Xenophon,
Adventurer,
Harris,

Swift,

Gibbon,

Spectator,

Guardian,

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on's flattery to Alexander, Q. Curtius,

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Fool of Quality, 123

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25 Obfervations on story-tel-
ling,
26 Successful intrepidity of
Admiral Blake, with his
death and Character,

27 Of religion,

DESCRIPTION of an

SECTION III.

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nian army,

9 Anecdote of Alonzo IV.

king of Portugal,

10 Liberty and flavery,

II Speech of Brutus, on the

death of Cæfar,

oration,

2 Caius Marius to the Ro-

mans,

3 The pulpit orator,

4 Duties of the young.-

Part of a fermon,

5 Adams prayer after the in-

terment of Abel,

6 Aukwardness in company,

7 Scipio to the Roman army, Hooke,

8 Hannibal to the Carthagi-

Hooke,

12 Charles V.'s refignation of

his dominions,

Guardian

13 The abfent man,

14 Adherbal to the Roman

fenate,

15 Man's interest social,

16 Corporal Trim's eloquence,

17 Speech of Canuleius against

the Roman law, which

prohibited the Patricians

and Plebians from inter-

marrying,

Hume,

133

Oecon. of H. Life, 135

Baillie,

Salluft,
Tatler,

Blair,

Geffner,
Chesterfield,

Sterne,

Sheakspeare,

Robertfon,
Spectator,

Salluft,
Harris,

Sterne,

Hooke,

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18 Confequences of fatirical wit, Sterne,

19 Advantages of commerce,

20 A fragment,

21 Galgacus to the Caledoni-

an Army,

22 The cant of criticism,

23 Various characters,

24 Story of Le Fever,

25 Hotspur reading a letter,

26 On the being of a God,

27 Demofthenes to the Athe-

nians,

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I THE fhepherd and the

philofopher,

2 The fan,

3

7 The hermit

8 Character of Belinda,

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Ode to Leven water

Invitation to the feathered

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28 The perfect speaker,

Sheridan,

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PART II.—VERSE. SECTION I.

Spectator,

Sterne,

race,

5 Rural charms,

Graves,
Goldsmith,

6 On the death of Mrs.Mafon, Mafon,

Parnell,

his present state

12 The univerfal prayer

13 Description of a cataract,

14 The country clergyman,

15 Whatever is, is right,
16 Epitaph on Gay,
17 Baucis and Philemon,
18 Knowell's advice to Mafter

Stephen,
19 Morning prayer,

Tacitus,

Sterne,

Spectator,
Sterne,
Shakespeare,
Cicero,

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Gay,

Gay,

Smollet,

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Pope,

Pope
Thomson,
Goldsmith

Pope,

9 Character of Lady Lyttleton, Lord Lyttleton
10 Bleffings of industry,
11 Man's perfection fuited to

Thomfon

Pope

Pope

Swift,

Ben Johnson

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20 Pleasures of the rural life, Thomson

21 Character of man,

22 Content a pastoral

23 Nature's children all divide

Pope,

Cunningham,

her care,

24 Beauty,

25 Advice to the fair fex,

26 On happiness,

a

27 Elegy on the death of

young lady,

28 On procrastination,

29 Invitation to

walk,

30 Winter,

31 Ode to fpring,

32 the temple of fame,

a morning-

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ODE

DE on the birth-day of

Lord Hay, now Earl of
Erroll,

8 A night-piece on death,

9 Battle of angels,

10 On verfification

11 Douglass to Randolph,

12 Eloifa to Abelard,

Pope,
Thomson,

Thomson,

Pope,

SECTION II.

Beattie,

Young,

13 Combat of the angel Mi-
chael and Satan,

Barclay,
Thomfon,

Beattie,

2 Advice to a young nobleman, Gay,
3 Continence of Scipio, Thomson,
4. Lady Randolph's foliloquy, Home,
5 The countryman & Jupiter, Gay,
6 Invocation to Paradife loft, Milton,
7 On retirement,

Goldfmith,
Parnell,

Milton,

Pope,

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279

Mrs. Barbauld, 280

Pope,

281

Home,

Pope,

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Home,

Milton,

14 Story of Lavinia,

Thomson,

15 Jupiter to the inferior deities, Pope's Homer,

16 Douglas's account of the

manner in which he

learned the art of war,

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