The British Essayists: Observer

James Ferguson

J. Haddon, 1819

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VOL XXXIX	1

No tain writer who had published a collection of his memoirs and remarkable sayings	2

Witty sayings of several ancients	52

The visit to Attalus concluded	58

Reasons offered a priori for the necessity of	64

Macbeth and Richard A parallel between him and Eschylus	69

The subject continued	70

Further continuation	71

Written on the last day of the year 1789 Short review of the remarkable events within the period of that year	87

The history of Nicolas Pedrosa	88

The history continued	89

The history concluded	90

A review of the present state of society in this	91

Letter from Posthumous complaining of a cer	92

Kit Cracker a dealer in the marvellous	93

Walter Wormwood an envious defamer	94

Conclusion of the subject	72

VOL XXXIX	73

Ben Jonsons imitations of Philostratus com pared with the original passages His satirical glances at Shakspeare instanced	74

Review of Ben Jonsons comedy of the	75

Review of the Sampson Agonistes	76

Comparative review of Rowes Fair Penitent with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger	77

The same continued	78

Conclusion of the review	79

Remarks upon Congreves comedy of the Dou ble Dealer	80

Observations on the various sorts of style	81

Conversation in a coffeehouse upon the time past compared with the time present	82

The same concluded	83

General observations on the social character	84

Advice to a man of landed property	85

Author explains the motives of his work and concludes the third volume	86

Letter from Simon Sapling describing his own character	95

On the topic of procrastination	96

Letter from Benevolus giving an account of a damper	97

Letters from various correspondents particu larly from Gorgon a selfconceited painter of the deformed and terrible	98

Discovery of a curious Greek fragment	99

Athenian vision	100

Athenian vision concluded	101

Upon the taste for acting private plays	102

Anecdotes of Jack Gayless	103

Memoirs of a sentimentalist	104

Conclusion of the above	105

Observations on the passions	106

The character of a flatterer	312

The flatterer reformed	392

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Titre	The British Essayists: Observer Volume 39 de The British Essayists: To which are Prefixed Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson
Rédacteur	James Ferguson
Éditeur	J. Haddon, 1819
Original provenant de	Université d'Oxford
Numérisé	20 juil. 2007

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