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Preface to.....

261
Cicero, Close of the Consulship of........... 491
Cicero offers himself to the Bar
490
City Night-Piece, by Goldsmith....
629
Civil Wars, by Daniel......

155

Campbell, on the death of Falconer........ 563 Church Government, Reason of, part of
on the Traveller.................... 624
on Thomson's Seasons. 468
Remark of, on Sir W. Jones'
mother........................
695
Remark of, on Spenser........... 103
on Blair's Poem on the Grave.. 465
Remark on Carew's Poems..... 178
Remark on Fletcher.............. 158
Canterbury Tales, Remarks on....................
Carazan, the Merchant of Bagdad..
Cardinal Wolsey, by Johnson..
Care, by Sackville...

Clarence, Dream of, by Shakspeare........ 135
Classics, Study of the, by Pitt....
640
Clergy, Duties of, Note on..................... 365
Clergymen, Cowper on........

27
615

.... 389
Clergy, The Glory of the, by South......... 365
Clerk, The, by Chaucer..
30

669

123

Client, The Anxious, and Rapacioas

Lawyer......

Coleridge, On Browne.........................................................

Care of Angels over Men, by Spenser..... 102
Cares, Worldly, by Doddridge.......... 502
Caskets, The Three, by Shakspeare........ 130
Castara, To, by Habington..... 198
Castle of Indolence, Lines from, by Thom-

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Chesterfield, Johnson on......

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527

477
Cato, Tragedy of, Warton on....... 376
Cause and Effect, by Latimer......
67
Cause of our Pleasure in Beauty 582
Censure, by Richardson......
Character, Human, Experience of.......... 333
Character of the Poet, by Sidney........... 83
Characters, Allegorical, in Hell.............. 122
Charles Fifth, Resignation of....... 684
Charles I., Character of......................... 270
Charles II., Parody on the Speeches of.... 284
Charles XII., by Johnson..................... 670
Chatham, Encomium on Lord, by Junius 732
Chaucer and Cowley, by Dryden............ 353
Chesse, The Game and Play of the, by
Caxton....................

.....

Chevy-Chase.........

Child, Epitaph upon a, by Herrick.....
Children, by Richardson....

....

43
649

Johnson's letter to....... 649
112
216

527

Letter to his, by Hale..
Penn's advice to his....
Child, To a Dead, by Herrick..
Chinese, The, by Mandeville..
Chivalry, Note on

19
721

Chorus of the Birds, by Drayton............ 169
Christ and Mohammed Compared........... 532
Christian, Dying, To his Soul, by Pope... 461
Christian in Doubting Castle.......
320
Christianity a Scheme Imperfectly Com-
prehended
507
Christians, Preachers, by Leighton......... 311
Christians to preach by example, by
Donne....

167
Christ, Ode to the Nativity of, by Mil-
ton............

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199
299

on Chaucer........................... 27
On Education..........
338

on Happiness, Duty, Faith..... 528
on The Bosom Sin................. 177
Collins, Ode on Fear by, Note to... 517
Columbus Discovering America, by Ro-
bertson

687
Commonwealth of Bees, by Shakspeare... 142
Complaint, Lover's, by Wyatt...
56
Comus, Scene from, by Milton... 249
Conclusion of Pleasures of the Imagination 584
Confessio Amantis, by Gower................ 34
Conscience, The Eye of, by South...... 365
Consequences of Neglected Education, by
Ascham..........

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Contemplation, Pleasure of ................... 204
Content and Rich, by Southwell............ 90
Content makes Rich, by Felltham......... 291
Contentment, by Walton.....
308
Hymn to, by Parnell......... 368
Content, Remarks on, by Taylor............ 221
Controversies, Theological, by Baxter.... 336
Conversation, Hale's letter on............... 275
of Authors, by Johnson.... €61
Rules of Improvement by.. 486
372 Coquette, Dissection of the heart of a..... 385
216 Corbies, The Two.....
116

275

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435

Cosmologist and Geologist, by Cowper... 739
Country, A Description of Recreations of
the......
Hospitality, by Swift.....
How Gray spent his time in the 603
Life, by Doddridge..... ......... 500
Life, Pleasures of a, by Cowley.. 229
Pleasures of the, by Vaughan... 340
Covenant, Entering into, by Doddridge... 504
Coverdale, Bible of........
........... 118
Covetousness, by South......................... 364
by Taylor.................................................... 222
241 Cowley and Chaucer, by Dryden............ 353

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Despise not the Least, by Ia ghton....... 310
Detraction, Remarks on, by Herbert...... 175
Dibdin, on Barrow................
278
499

—— on Doddridge.......

Dictionary, from the preface of Johnson's 662
Different Ends of Religion and Infidelity 550
Difficulty Advantageous, by Burke........ 717
Diligence and Sedulity, by Felltham...... 20
Directions for Writing well, by Jonson.. 173
Directions relating to our Ideas, by
Watts.........
484
Discontent, by Anne Killegrew............. 312
Discrimination in reading the Scriptures 331
Distant Prospect of Eton College, by
Gray..........

599
Doddridge, Epigram of...................................................... 500
Domestic Tutor, by Hall. .................................................. 20
Douay Bible..........
.... 119
Doubting Castle, Christian in................ 320
Note on.................
320
Dover Cliff, Shakspeare's Lines on......... 404
Drake, Dr. Nathan, on Addison................................ 391
on Addison's Prose....

394

201

517

on Cowley...

227

on the Countess of Warwick....... 376
on Dryden......
351

on Gray's ode on Eton College..... 599
on Gray's Bard.

590

on Gray's Elegy

596

on Grove.....

425

on Johnson

651

on Jonson's Essay on Writing...... 173
on Pope........
........ 451
on Pope's Rape of the Lock......... 458
on Shakspeare
123
on Shakspeare's Fairies............. 139
on Steele.....

403

on Bishop Hall

on Collins..........

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270

652

219
70

Editors and Publishers, Responsibility of 341
Education, by Richardson...

by Tillotson...

527
338
Consequences of Neglected.... 78
Female, by Lady Montagu.... 535
Moral, Importance of... 360
of Gibbon......
689
67

596

76

42

121

44

on Johnson.........

on Taylor

on the Dramatists....

Effect and Cause, by Latimer............

Elegy, by Gray.

Elizabeth, Anecdote of.....

Elliot's Lines on Caxton....

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Description of, by Dunbar....
Epitaph, by Prior

Epitaph of Burns on his father...
Equanimity, by Daniel...

Erasmus, Dispute of, with More.
Epigram of, to More..

Ellis, Mrs., Poetry of Life........

on Dunbar........

42

on the ode of James I. on his Be-
loved.
Emancipation, in the British Colonies..... 740
Emendations of Milton, by Bentley....... 430
Emigrants, The, by Marvell.................. 286
Empires, Ancient, The fall of, by Sandys. 181

The Fall of Mighty ................. 147
Emulation, by Dodsley.... ........................................ 550
Enchiridion, Composition of the word..... 188
Extract from.............
188
End of Knowledge, by Bacon............... 164
Enemies, How far we can love them...... 612
England and London, by Milton........... 266
Worthies of, by Fuller............. 207
English Nation, Junius' Dedication to the 726
Envy, by Fletcher.....
196
45

398

708

156

47

48

151

274

Errand of the Soul, by Raleigh..
Erskine, Remark of, on Hale...
Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral........ 160
Estate, The Mean and the Sure, by Wyatt 58
Eternity, Launching into, by Watts....... 483

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Eton College, On a Distant Prospect of.... 599
Eve, Iler account of her Creation........... 253
Evening in Paradise, by Milton... 254
Ode to, by Collins.......... 519
Pleasures of a Winter, by Cow-

per...............................

742
Prayer, by Felltham ............... 292
Summer, by Thomson............. 470
Summer, by Watts........ ....... 480

The Shepherd's, by Fletcher.... 145
Evidence of a Creator, by Tillotson......... 337
Evils of the Press, by Marvell... 283
Evils, The Three Great...

325

Example, Christians to preach by, by
Donne....

167
Excellency of the Psalins, by Hooker.... 108
Experience of Human Character............ 333
Experience of others and our own reason 643

Faerie Queene, A vision upon the........... 151
"Faerie Queene," by Spenser..
94

Fairies, Palace of the: Queen Mab's
chariot..

Faith and Works, Remarks on, by Fell-
than.....

290

303

Falconer, Speech of the, by Walton........ 303
Falconry, Note on.....
Falkland, Lord, by Edward Hyde....... 272
Fall of Cardinal Wolsey, by Shakspeare.. 137
Fall of Mighty Empires, by Raleigh....... 147
Fame, Literary, Immortality of............. 164
Fame, Poetic, Evanescence of, by Pope... 455
Fame, Temple of, by Pope.............
32
Fame, Temple of, Lines from................. 33
Fame, The House of, by Chaucer............ 32
Famine, by Sackville........
..................... 124
Fan, On the Use of the, by Addison....... 378
Farewell of the Lawyer to his Muse...... 645
Farewell, The, by Donne........ 166
Father, the Death of Steele's....... 405
Fear, Ode to, by Collins........
....... 517
Feelings of Queen Elizabeth, Verses on. 117
Female Education, by Lady Montagu..... 535
Fencing, Bickerstaff learning........ 378
Ferrex and Porrex, by Sackville............ 121
Filcher, the Little, by Herrick........... 215
Fitzwilliam, Lady Russell's letter to....... 400
Flight of Eagle with the Poet, by Chaucer 33
Flight of Time, A lesson from the.......... 617

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Florent, by Gower.

33

.... 147

Flower and the Leaf, by Chaucer...
Folly of Ambition, by Raleigh.........
Folly of Procrastination, by Johnson.... 671
Forgiveness, Duty of, by Johnson......... 659
Forgiveness of Injuries, by Carey.......... 154

Formation of a Youthful Mind
Fortune not to be trusted, by Boling-

broke............

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338 Goldsmith, Anecdote of.............
on Young
555
Travels of, Note on....... 619
Gondibert, Remarks on....
232

Good Humor and Gayety, by Johnson..... 61
528
Good Man, The, by Richardson.....................................
Good Thoughts in Bad Times, by Fuller.. 207
Good Woman, The, by Richardson........ 6:29
Goose, In Praise of the, by Ascham........ 76
Gospel, Information of the, by Sherlock. 530
Grandeur, Revolutions of National... 717
Grandison, Sir Charles, Drake on............ 526
Grasshopper, The, by Cowley... 226
The, by Lovelace..
Grattan, on Burke.......
Grave, the, by Blair.

206

713

465

127

2:0

347

498

-Indifference to, by Thomson..... 469
Four P's, by Heywood......
71
Fox-Hunt, Beginning of........................ 431
28
Fox, John, on Chaucer...

Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty, by

Howard..........

63

France, by Goldsmith.......

623

France in 1718, by Lady Montagu.......... 535
France, The Queen of, by Burke............ 721
Freedom, Apostrophe to, by Barbour...... 25
528
Friendship, by Richardson.......
Friendships, Death-Divided, by Blair...... 466
Fuller, on Jonson........... ........... 172
on Wiclif's ashes............. 22
Works of............................................................................................ 207
Funeral of Calamity..

238

...........................

73
Gammer Gurton's Needle, by Still........
Garden of a Poet, History of a... 631
Gardiner, Colonel, Note on... 499
Garrick, line of, on Britain and France... 648
Gayety and Good Humor, by Johnson.... 661
Geddes, on Tyndale's Translation of the

Bible.....

54

Generals, Modern, Note on.....
Geneva, The Bible of........

50
119

Genius and Learning, True Use of... 502
Genius and Station, Insufficiency of...... 560
Geologist and Cosmologist, by Cowper.... 739
Geology, Note on..
Gibbon, Birth of.....

739
689

Completion of the History of..... 693
Death of the Mother of............. 689
Education of...........
.......... 689
First Love of........
690
Interview of, with his father...... 691
on Chillingworth..

on Lowth...

183
673
684

on Robertson.

Publication of the History of..... 692
Gilpin, The Diverting History of... 747
Gladness, No Treasure without, by Dun-
bar.........
Glory of the Clergy, by South............. 365
Glory, Military, Gibbon on...................................................... 50
God, Can be worshipped anywhere......... 167

46

Living near to, by Doddridge......... 501
Presence, A Sense of, by Talbot....... 566
Providence of, in All Things, by
Cowper...................................... 737
Gold, by Cowley.............................. 226
Golden Terge, by Dunbar......................

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Lines on Milton of......

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622

-on Dryden...............

605

on the Death of Mr. Nicholls' Mo-
ther
The Bard of, Anonymous note on.. 592
Greatest Cross, by Donne........
****..... 168
Greatness, Human, Decay of.......... 193
640
Grenville on Pitt.........
Grief, Excessive, Remarks on, by Temple 344
Guardian......
******** 376
Gunpowder, Invention and Use of.......... 024
Gunpowder Plot....................................................................... 197

357

Habit and Practice, by Locke.........
Habits, Prevention of Evil, by Johnson.. 662
Hale, Sir Matthew, Character of............ 334
Half-Pence of Wood, by Swift 434
Hall, Prose Works of...
......... 201
Hallam, Extract from, on Hooker.......... 105
On Sermons of Barrow............. 273
on Tillotson....

336
314

on Waller......

83

Remark of, on Sidney...
Hamlet, The, by Warton........

681

The, by Warton, Origin of.......... 195
Hampden, John, by Hyde..
Happiness, by Howard...

270
64
203

On, by Burns...

283
415

Society necessary for, by
Young...
560
Happy Matches, Lines on, by Watts....... 481
Happy or Miserable, by Comparison
Hare, the, And many Friends....
Harlowe, The History of, Drake on......... 526
Haste, Injudicious, in Study..
............................................... 359
Hazlitt, William, on Collins... 517
on Cowley's Character of Crom-
well........

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606

on Smollett.........

on the Elizabethan Age............. 118
on The Task
..... 736
on the sonnet to Faerie Queene.. 151
Remark of, on Spenser. .............. 103
Headley, Henry, on Carew's works......... 177
on Crashaw............................ 192
on Enchiridion ..................... 188
on Fletcher......
158

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on Goldsmith's prose............... 627
on Quarles........
186
on the The Purple Island......... 195
Remarks of, on Elizabeth's

poetry

117

Health, Duty of Preserving, by Locke... 362
Heart's-Ease, Its Origin, by Herrick....... 214
Heart, the, by Leighton.....
Heathen, the, by Dryden......
Henry the Sixth, Note on...

311

Heresy and Orthodoxy, by Locke....
Hermit, Analysis of..

Hermit, Lines from....

367

Horschel, On Taste for Reading.

424

Hesketh, Lady, Cowper's letter to....... 760
Highland Mary, Note on ............... 704
Hillard, Remarks of, on Faerie Queene... 94
History of a Poet's Garden.......
631
History, Right Improvement of............ 360
The Use of, by Bolingbroke...... 497
Holy and Profane State, by Fuller......... 207
Holy War, History of the, by Fuller....... 207
Homer and Virgil, Comparison between.. 343
Compared, by Pope.... 464
Translation of, by Cowper......... 761
Honor, Titles of, Barclay's remarks on... 326
Hooker, Letter of, to the Archbishop...... 105
Hospitality, by Swift.
435
Hour, Present, Enjoyment of
350
House of Fame, by Chaucer.................. 32
Housewife, The Good, by Markham........ 179
Howard, Account of his Imprisonment.... 61
Howard, John, Burke on...................... 718
Howe, Anecdote of, by King
544
Hudibras, Apparel of, by Butler...... 296
Description of, by Butler........ 293
Logic of, by Butler...... 294
Mathematics of, by Butler..... 295
Hughes, on Boyle......
329
Hume, on History of the World
on More....

147

47

on More's History of Edward V... 50
Hunt, on Utility of Poetry...................................

674

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Ideas, General Directions relating to...... 484
Idler, the, by Johnson..........
650
Imagination, Pleasures of the, Introduc-
tion to..............
.......... 579
Imagination, Pleasures of the, Remarks on 578
Immortal Aspirations of Man...... 580
Immortality of Literary Fame, by Bacon. 164
of the Soul, by Young........ 356
Thoughts on, by Browne..... 299

Importance of Early Rising, by Talbot..... 569
of Time, by Talbot............... 568
354 Improvement of Time, by Johnson......... 657
599 Indifference, Prayer for, by Greville...... 672
361 Indolence, Castle of, Lines from, by
367 Thomson...

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Hunting in Utopia, by Mose............................................... . 49
Hurtfulness of Beauty, by Howard........ 63
Hybla, Note on......

518

Hymn, by Hawkesworth...........

618

by Mrs. Rowe........

423

on the Nativity, by Milton.......... 242
on the Seasons, by Thomson........ 474
to Cynthia, by Jonson............... 173

477
365

Industry, Pleasures of, by South..
Influences, Worldly, by Tillotson........... 339
Information of the Gospel, by Sherlock.. 530
Injuries, Forgiveness of, by Carey........... 154
Insufficiency of Genius and Station........ 560
Interludes........
71

Intermixture of Study and Exercise, by
Ascham.......

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252

Sublimity of, by Lowth.............. 678
Island, the Purple, by Fletcher...... 195
Italy, by Goldsmith.....................

622

663

James I., on his Beloved............
Jocasta, Note on............

39
518

Johnson, Dr., Note on the manners of..... 652
on Addison's style and humor... 377
on Ascham's School-Master......
on Bolingbroke
on Browne's Style

78
495

298

on Collins

516

227

411

500

on Cowley.

on De Foe....

on Doddridge's Epigram...

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