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SECTION I.
Page.
1. to 5.
SELECT
LECT sentences,
Art of Thinking, 13
6. The fox and the goat,
Dodfey's Fables,
18
7. The fox and the stork,
ibid.
19
8. The court of death,
ibid.
20
9. The partial judge,
ibid.
20
10. The sick lion, the fox, and the
wolf,
ibid.
11. Dishonesty punished,
Kames's Hints,
12. The picture,
ibid.
22
13. The two bees,
Dodfey's Fables, 22
14. Beauty and deformity,
Percival's Tales, 23
15. Remarkable instance of friends
ship,
Art of Speaking,
16. Dionysius and Damocles, ibid.
25.
17. Character of Catiline,
Salluft,
26
18. Avarice and Luxury,
Spectator,
26
19. Hercules's choice,
Tatler,
28
20. Will. Honeycomb's Spectator, Spectator,
30
21. On good breeding,
Chesterfield,
34
22. Address to a young student, Knox,
37
23. Advantages of, and motives to
cheerfulness,
Spectator,
40
SECTION II.
THE bad reader,
Percival's Tales,
2. Respect due to old age, Spectator,
45
3. Piety to God recommended to
Blair,
45
4. Modesty and docility,
ibid.
46
5. Sincerity,
ibid.
47
6. Benevolence and humanity, ibid.
48
7. Industry and application, ibid.
49
8. Proper employment of time, ibid.
50
9. The true patriot,
Art of Thinking,
51
10. On contentment,
Spectator,
51
II. Needle-work recommended to
the Ladies,
ibid.
54
12. On Pride,
Guardian,
57
13. Journal of the life of Alexander
Severus,
Gibbon,
58
14.. Character of Julius Cæsar, Middleton,
59
15. On mispent time,
Guardian,
61
16. Character of Francis I.
Rabertfolio
17. The supper and grace,
Sterne,
18. Rustic felicity,
ibid.
1g. House of mourning,
ibid.
SECTION III.
of a constant adherence to
truth,
Percivals Tales,
2. Impertinence in discourse, Theophrastus,
3. Character of Addison as a writer, Johnson,
4. Pleasure and Pain,
5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family, ibid.
6. The folly of inconsistent expec-
tations,
Aitken,
7. Description of the valeòf Keswick
in Cumberland,
Brown,
8. Pity, an allegory.
Aitken,
9. Advantages of commerce,
Spectator,
10. On public speaking,
ibid.
II. Advantages of history,
Hume,
12. On the immortality of the foul, Spectator,
13. The combat of the Horatii and
the Curiatii,
Livy,
14. On the power of custom, Spectator,
15. On pedantry,
Mirror,
16. The journey of a day; a pic-
ture of huinan life.
Rainbler,
SECTION IV.
ESCRIPTION of the am-
phitheatre of Titus, Gibbon,
106
2. Reflections in Westminster Ab-'
bey,
Spectator,
107
3. The character of Maryqueen of
Scots,
Robertson,
109
4. The character of Q. Elizabeth, Hime,'
III
5. Charles Vi's resignation of his
dominions,
Robertson,
113
6. Importance of virtue,
Price,
116
7. Address to Art,
Harris,
118
8. Flattery,
Theophrastus,
125
9. The absent man,
Spectator,
10. The monk,
Sterne,
11. On the head-dress of the ladies, Spectator,
SECTION V.
Page.
ON grace in writing,
I.
Fitzsborne's Letters, 136 -
2. On the itructure of animals, Spectator,
137
3. On natural and fantastical plea-
sures,
Guardian,
140
4. The folly and madness of am-
bition illustrated,
World,
5. Battle of Pharfalia and the death
of Pompey,
Goldsmith,
148
6. Character of king Alfred, Hume,
153
7. Awkwardness in company, Chesterfield,
154
3. Virtue man's highest intereft, Harris,
155
g. On the pleasure arising from
objects of light,
Spectator,
156
10. Liberty and Navery,
Sterne,
159
11. The cant of criticism,
ibid.
161
12. Parallel between Pope and Dry.
den,
Johnson,
162
13. The ftory of Le Fever, Sterne,
163
HE
sopher,
Gay,
2. Ode to Leven Water,
Smollet,
3. Ode from the sixth psalm, Spectator,
4. Rural charms,
Goldsmith,
5. The painter 'who pleafed' no-
body and every-body,
6. Diversityin the human character, Pope,
7. The toilet,
ibid.
8. The hermit,
Parnell,
9. On the death of Mrs Mason, Mason,
10. Extract from the Temple of
Fame,
Pope,
11. The Country Clergyman, Goldsmith,
12. A panegyric on Great Britain, Thomson,
13. Hymn to the Deity, on the fea-
fons of the year,
ibid.
S E-CTION VIE
The cameleon,
Merrick,
2. On the order of nature,
Pope,
3. Description of a country ale-
house,
Goldsmith,
4. Character of a country school-
master,
Goldsmith,
5.Story of Palemon and Lavinia, Thoinson,
6. Celadon and Amelia,
ibid.
7: Description of Mab, queen of
the fairies,
Shakespeare
8. On the existence of a Deity,
9. Evening in Paradise, &c.
Miltong
10. Elegy written in a country
church-yard,
11. Scipio refroring the captive
lady to her lover,
Thomson,
I 2. Humorous complaint to Dr Ar-
buthnot of the impertinence.
of scribblers,
13. Hymn to Adversity,
Gray;
14 The paflions. An'ode.
Collins,
SECTION VIII.
loss of light,
Milion,
2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,
ibid.
3. On the pursuits of mankind,
Pope,
4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn, Milton,
5. Parting of Hector and Andro-
mache,
Homer,
6. Facetious history of John Gilpin, Cowper,
7. The creation of the world,
Milton,
8. Overthrow of the rebel angels, ibid.
9. Alexander's feast, or the power
of music,
Dryden,
I. OMULUS to the people of
Rome, after building the
city,
Hooke,
2 Hannibal to Scipio Africanus, ibid.
3. Scipio's reply,
ibid.
4. Calisthenes's reproof of Cleon's
flattery to Alexander,
Curtins,
5. Caius Marius to the Romans, Hooke,
6. Publius Scipio to the Roman
? army,
ibid.
7. Hannibal to the Carthaginian
army,
ibid.
8. Adherbal to the Roman senators, Sallust,
9. Camuleius to the Roman consuls, Hooke,
10. Junius Brutus over the dead
body of Lucretia,
ibid.
11. Demosthenes to the Athenians,
Lands down
12. Jupiter to the inferiour deities, Horner,
13. Æneas to Queen Dido,
Virgil,
14. Moloch to the irfernal powers,
Milton,
6:15. Speech of Belial, advising peace, ibid.
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