LETTER I.

Introduction.....Principle of Association......Pleasures from

the Fine Arts

Style

The Sublime

CONTENTS.

The Pathetic

Sources of Fine Composition

The Ludicrous

LETTER II.

LETTER III.

LETTER IV.

LETTER V.

LETTER VI.

LETTER VII.

Metaphors

LETTER XI.

LETTER XII.

Allegory....Allusion.....Catachresis....Antithesis

LETTER XIII.

Metonymy....Synecdoche....Periphrasis.....

Apostrophe.....Hyperbole.....Irony

LETTER XIV.

General Observations on Composition

LETTER XV.

Didactic Composition....Analysis and Synthesis

LETTER XVI.

Oratory.....Parts of an Oration

LETTER XVII.

Different kinds of Oratory.....Eloquence of the Senate......

Of the Bar

LETTER XVIII.

Rise and Progress of Eloquence

LETTER XIX.

Eloquence of the Pulpit

Personification....

LETTER XX.

Narration.....Description

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LETTER XXI.

History.....Ancient Historians.....Scripture History.....Hero-

dotus....Thucidydes....Xenophon.....Polybius.....Sallust.....

History....Buchanan.....Clarendon.....Rapin.....Lyttleton.....

Livy....Tacitus....Comnena....De Thou....Davilla.... Modern

Hume....Robertson.....Gibbon

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LETTER XXII.

Annals....Chronicles....Memoirs....Biography, &c...Froissart

.....Holingshead....Stow....Cæsar.... Princess Anna Comnena

....Alberquerque... Ludlow... Whitlock....Burnet....Dalrym-

ple.....Nepos.... Plutarch....Diogenes Laertius....Suetonius...

Bayle....Dr. Johnson....Biographic Britannica

LETTER XXIII.

Voyages and Travels....Anson....Hawkesworth....Addison....

Burnet.....Lady M. W. Montague.....Johnson....Fictitious

Narrative.....The Xenophon......Cervantes.......Le Sage.....

Fielding.....Smollett......Sterne.....D'Arblois.....Radcliffe.....

Swift....De Foe....Mrs. Hamilton....Epistolary Writing.....

Cicero....Pliny....Seneca....Balzac....Voiture....Pope, &c....

Dialogue....Plato....Cicero....Lucian....Horne Tooke

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LETTER XXIV.

Description and Origin of Poetry.....Metre....Rhyme....Eng-

lish Metres

Thoughts and Language of Poetry

LETTER XXVII.

Didactic, Satiric, and Descriptive Poetry...Hesiod...Lucre-

tius.... Virgil....Horace....Boileau...Pope...Rapin....Mason...

Akenside.....Armstrong....Juvenal....Butler.... Young...Dry-

den.....Prior......Denham.....Jago.....Goldsmith.....Roscoe.....

Pleasures of Memory

LETTER XXVIII.

Elegy....Lyric Poetry....Epistles...Tales and Fables....Ovid...

Tibullus.... Propertius....Pope....Collins....Gray....Pindar.....

Horace....Milton.....Dryden....Anacreon.....Cowley....Songs

and Ballads

LETTER XXIX.

Dramatic Poetry....Tragedy.....Eschylus...Sophocles....Euri-

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LETTER XXVI.

The Epigram and Epitaph... The Sonnet...Pastoral Poetry...

Theocritus...Virgil....Spencer...Phillips....Gay...Shenstone 246

pides....Corneille....Racine.... Voltaire.....Shakspeare.....Ot-

way....Dryden....Rowe.... Young

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Comedy......Aristophanes..... Plautus.....Terence.....Moliere.....

Shakspeare....Jonson....Beaumont and Fletcher....Dryden

....Congreve.... Farquhar.... Vanburgh....Steele....Addison...

Centlivre....Sheridan

LETTER XXXI.

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Epic Poetry....Homer.....Apollonius Rhodius.....Virgil....Lu-

can....Tasso....Camoens....Erecilla.... Voltaire....Milton

LETTER XXXII.

On the Uses of Classical Learning

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