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2. Impertinence in discourse,
4. Pleasure and pain,
5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,
1. The honor and advantage of a con-
3. Character of Addison as a writer, Johnson,
6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, Aitkin,
Percival's Tales, 107
Theophrastus,
107
108
Spectator,
109
ib.
111
113
7. Description of the vale of Keswick
in Cumberland,
8. Pity, an allegory,
9. Advantages of commerce,
10. On public speaking,
121
11. Advantages of history,
Curiatii,
12. On the immortality of the soul,
13. The combat of the Horatii and the
14. On the power of custom,
15. On pedantry,
Spectator, 129
Mirror,
131
16. The journey of a day; a picture of
human life,
SECTION IV.
1. Description of the amphitheatre of
Titus,
Gibbon, 187
2. Reflections in Westminster abbey, Spectator, 138
3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson, 140
4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume, 142
5. Charles V's resignation of his domin-
ions.
Robertson,
Price,
147
Harris,
148
150
151
Sterne,
152
154
157
159
SECTION Y.
4. On grace in writing,
Fitzborne's Letters, 164
Spectator, 165
2. On the structure of animals,
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian, 168
4. The folly and madness of ambition il-
SECTION VI.
1. The shepherd and the philosopher,
2. Ode to Leven Water,
3. Ode from the 19th psalm,
4. Rural charms,
5. The painter who pleased nobody and
every body,
6. Diversity in the human character,
7. The toilet,
8. The hermit,
9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,
10. Extract from the temple of fame,
11. A panegyric on Great Britain,
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of
the year,
Mason,
210
Thompson,
212
1. The camelion,
2. On the order of nature,
3. Description of a country alehouse,
4. Character of a country schoolmaster,
5 Story of Palemon and Lavinia,
6. Celadon and Amelia,
7. Description of Mab, queen of the
fairies,
8. On the existence of a deity,
9. Evening in Paradise described,
Goldsmith,
221
10. Elegy written in a country churchyard, Gray,
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to
225
her lover,
233
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot
of the impertinence of seribblers,
5. Parting of Hector and Andromacke,
6. Facetious history of John Gilpin,
7. The creation of the world,
8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,
9. Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden, 258
2. On doing as we would be done unto, Atterbury, 264
1. On truth and integrity,
3. On benevolence and charity,
Seed,
266
1. Pleadings of Cicero against Verres,
2. Cicero for Milo,
SPEECHES ON VAROUS SUBJECTS.
1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after
building the city,
27+
279
283
286
2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus,
3. Scipio's reply,
4. Calisthenes' reproof of Cleon's flat-
tery to Alexander,
Q. Curtius,
Hooke,
295
Lansdown,
309
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5. Caius Marius to the Romans,
6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,
7. Hannibal to the Carthagenian army,
8. Adherbal to the Roman senators,
9. Canuleius to the Roman consuls,
10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of
Lucretia,
11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,
12. Jupiter to the inferior deities,
13. Æneas to queen Dido,
44. Moloch to the infernal powers,
15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,
SECTION V,
DRAMATIC PIECES.-I. DIALOGUES.
1. Belcour and Stockwell,
2. Lady Townly and Lady Grace, Provoked Husband, 322
West-Indian, 320
6. Cardinal Wolsey and Cromwell, Henry VIII. 334
7. Sir Charles and Lady
Racket,
337
Three weeks after marriage,
8. Brutus and Cassius, Shakespeare's Julius Cesar, 340
II. SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES,
6. Lucius' speech for peace,
6. Hotspur's account of the fop, 4 Henry IV.
7. -soliloquy on the contents of a letter, ib.
6. Othello's apology for his mar-
345
346,
346
317
348.
riage,
Tragedy of Othello, 349