BODLEIST

27 SEP 1973

LIBRARY

Printed by T. C. Hansard, Peterbro' Court, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS

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VOLUME II.

ESSAY

Page

1

50. On Posthumous Publications-Cow-

ley's Miscellaneous Writings.

51. A Word to Modern Critics-Dryden's

Preface to the State of Innocence

52. On the Use of Letters-Lord Lyttle-

ton's Dialogues of the Dead,

Cadmus and Hercules

53. On the Character of Poets-Gold-

smith's Citizen of the World

54. Confidence-Collier's Essays

8

11

17

21

25

55. Ideal Beauty-Dryden's Parallel of
Poetry and Painting

56. Advantage of Restraint, a Tale-

Museum for 1747, p. 128 .

33

57. Polite Philosophy- Polite Philoso-

pher, Dodsley's Fugitive Pieces. 39

58. Egotism-The same

59. The Society of Women the best

School of Politeness-The same 53

61. Delicacy of Taste and Passion

Hume's Essays

62. Food for a Country Life-Dryden's

Dedication of the Georgics.

63. On the Immortality of the Soul-

Blackmore's Essays.

Page

61

65

71

73

76

78

81

64. Frailty of Human Life - Pope's

Letters.

65. On the Advantages of Sickness-

The same

66. Predominance of Good over Evil-

Melmoth's Cato

67. Miscellaneous Writings--Lord Shaftes-

bury's Miscellaneous Reflections,

ch. 3.

68. Alcander and Septimius-Goldsmith's

Bee, Essay 3.

69. On Grace in Writing-Melmoth, Fitz-

osborne's Letters, Letter 29.

89

70. On Nothing-Fielding's Miscellanies,
vol. 1. Essay on Nothing

71. Fashionable Diseases and Remedies-

Sir W. Temple's Essay on Health

and Long Life

72. Obscurity a cause of the Sublime-

Burke on the Sublime and Beau-

96

99

106

ESSAY

Page

73. Comparative Merit of the Two Sexes

-Melmoth, Fitzosborne's Letters,

Letter 41.

74. Colour and Form constituent parts of

Beauty-Spence. Dodsley's Fu-

gitive Pieces.

77. Character of a Republican-Butler's

Remains

78. Evils of a Republic-Dryden's Dedi-

cation of All for Love

79. Sentimental Comedy-Goldsmith.

80. Laziness-Lord Shaftesbury's Mis-

cellanies

114

119

145

151

153

165

81. Affected or formal Man-Butler's

Remains

82. Socrates-Melmoth's Cato Remarks,
p. 280.

83. Firmness in Adversity-Bolingbroke

on Exile

84. Weariness of Life-Melmoth, Fitzos-

borne's Letters

-

85. Conversation Fielding's Miscella-

neous Works

. 179

86. Errors in Conversation-The same 191

87. The Whistle-Benj. Franklin's Mis-

cellaneous Works

88. Gentleman and the Basket Maker-

Universal Spectator .

201

204

ESSAY

89. Delicacy in relieving the distressed-

Melmoth, Fitzosborne's Letters

90. Benevolence-Hume's Essays .

91. The Busy Body-Benj. Franklin's

Miscellaneous Works.

Page

212

214

219

92. The Curious Man-Butler's Remains 223

93. On Luxury-Benj. Franklin's Mis-
cellaneous Works

94. On Women-Lady M.W. Montagu's

Works

95. Soliloquy of an Ephemera-Benjamin

Franklin

96. Prejudice-Female Spectator

97. Effects of Prejudice-The same

225

228

234

238

242

261

269

98. On the Arts and Sciences-Goldsmith's

Citizen of the World

99. On Style Melmoth, Fitzosborne's

100. On Contentment-Museum

101. On Gaming-The same.

102. Stolen Marriages -Goldsmith's Bee. 287

103. Philosophical Watch-German Spy. 293

104. Intellectual Thermometer-The same 299