ON

LITERATURE,

TASTE,

AND

COMPOSITION,

ADDRESSED TO HIS SON,

BY GEORGE GREGORY, D.D.

LATE VICAR OP 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.

VOL. II.

LETTER XX.

Page

1

13

sar.

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-

-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-Hawkes vorth.

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

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

Xenophons. — Cervantes. --Le Sage. -Pield-

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

cliffe.Swift: ---De Foe.--Mrs. Handilter.

Epistolary Writing. -- Cicero. -- Plińy. “ Se.

-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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