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22. Address to a young student,
Knox,
81
23. Advantages of, and motives to cheerfulness, Spectator, 84
SECTION II.
Page.
1. The bad reader,
2. Respect due to old age,
3. Piety to God recommended to the young,
4. Modesty and docility,
5. Sincerity,
6. Benevolence and humanity,
7. Industry and application,
Percival's Tales,
89
Spectator,
90
Blair,
ib.
8. Proper employment of time,
9. The true patriot,
10. On contentment,
97
11. Needle-work recommended to
the ladies, ib.
100
12. On pride
Guardian,
102
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus,
Gibbon,
104
14. Character of Julius Cesar,
Middleton,
105
15. On mis-spent time,
106
16. Character of Francis I.
Robertson,
110
17. The supper and grace,
Sterne,
113
18. Rustic felicity,
115
19. House of mourning,
3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth,
5. Charles V's. resignation of his dominions,
6. Importance of virtue,
7. Address to art,
8. Flattery,
9. The absent man,
10. The Monk,
11. On the head dress of the ladies,
12. On the present and a future state,
13. Uncle Toby's benevolence,
14. Story of the siege of Calais,
1. On grace in writing,
2. On the structure of animals,
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures,
4. The folly and madness of ambition
Theophrastus,
167
168
170
172
175
SECTION V.
Fitzborne's Letters,
184
185
189
illustrated,
5. Battle of Pharsalia, and the death of
Pompey,
6. Character of king Alfred,
Hume,
7. Awkwardness in company,
Chesterfield,
203
8. Virtue man's highest interest,
Harris,
204
9 On the pleasure arising from objects
of sight,
10. Liberty and slavery,
208
11. The cant of criticism,
209
13. Story of le Fevre,
12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, Johnson,
1. The shepherd and the philosopher,
211
212
SECTION VI.
2. Ode to Leaven Water,
Smollet,
222
3. Ode from the 19th psalm,
223
4. Rural charms,
Goldsmith,
5. The painter who pleased nobody and
every body,
6. Diversity in the human character,
9. On the death of Mrs. Mason,
10. Extract from the temple of fame.
Pope,
226
227
11. A panegyric on Great Britain,
Thomson,
234
12. Hymn to the Deity, on the seasons of
the year,
A 2
6. Celadon and Amelia,
246
7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare, 247
8. On the existence of a Deity,
Young,
248
9. Evening in paradise described,
Milton,
10. Elegy written in a country church yard, Gray,
250
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady
to her
lover,
12. Humorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot,
of the impertinence of scribblers,
13. Hymn to adversity,
Gray,
255
14. The Passions-An ode,
Collins,
256
9. Alexander's feast, or the power of music, Dryden,
275
2. On doing as we would be done unto, Atterbury,