1 The bad reader,
Percival's Tales,
2. Respect due to old age,
Spectator,
3. Piety to God recommended to the young, Blair,
4. Modesty and docility,
ib.
ib.
5. Sincerity,
6. Benevolence and humanity,
ib.
7. Industry and application,
ib.
8. Proper employment of time,
ib.
9. The true patriot,
Art of Thinking,
10. Ole contentment,
Spectator,
11. Needlework recommended to the Ladies, ib.
12. On pride,
Guardian,
13. Journal of the life of Alexander Severus, Gibbon,
13. Character of Julius Cesar,
Middleton,
15. On mispent time,
Guardian
16. Character of Francja I,
Robertson,
17. The supper aod grace,
Sterne,
18. Rustic felicity,
ib.
19. House of morning,
ib.
1. The honor and advantage of a constant
adherence to truth,
Percival: Tales,
2: Impertinence in discourse,
Theophrastus,
3. Character of A Idison as a writer,
Johnson,
4. Pleasure and pain,
Spectator,
5. Sir Roger de Coverly's family,
6. The folly of inconsistent expectations, Jitkin,
7. Description of the vale or' Keswick in
Cumberland,
Brown,
S. Pity, an allegory,
Aitkin,
9. diventages of commerce,
Spectator,
10. On public speaking,
ib.
11. Adrantages of history,
Ikume,
19. On the immortality of the soul,
Spectuto?',
13. The combat of the Horatii aid the
Curiatii,
Lity,
14. On the power of custom,
Speciilor,
15. On pedantry,
Mirror,
16. The journey of a day; a picture of
human life,
Jiamiler,
3. The character of Mary, queen of Scots, Robertson,
4. The character of queen Elizabeth, Hume,
5. Charles V's resignation of his dominions, Robertson,
6. Importance of virtue,
Price,
7. Address to Art,
Harris,
8. Flattery,
Theophrastus,
9. The absent man,
Spectator,
10. The monk,
Sterne,
11. On the head dress of the ladies.
Spectator,
12. On the present and a future state,
ib.
13. Uncle Toby's benevo:ence,
Sterne,
14. Story of the siege of Calais, Fool of Quality,
1. On grace in writing,
Filzsborn's Letters,
2. On the structure of animals, Spectator,
3. On natural and fantastical pleasures, Guardian,
4. The folly and madness of ambition
illustrated,
World,
5. Battle of Pharsalia, and the death of
Pompey,
Goldsmith,
6. Character of king Alfreil,
Hume,
7. Awarkness in company,
Chesterfield,
8. Virtue, man's highest interest,
Harris,
9. On the pleasure arising from objects
of sight,
Spectator,
IO. Liberty and slavery,
Sterne,
11. The cant of criticism,
ib.
12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden, Johnson,
13. Story of le Fever,
Sterne,
1. The camelion,
Merrick,
2. On the order of nature,
Pope,
8. Description of a country alehouse,
Goldsmith,
4. Character of a country schoolmaster,
ib.
3. Story of Palemon and Lavinia,
Thomson,
6. Celadon and Amelia,
ih.
7. Description of Mab, queen of the fairies, Shakespeare,
8, On the existence of a Deity,
Young;
9. Evening in paradise described,
Milton,
10. Elegy written in a country churchyard,
Gray,
11. Scipio restoring the captive lady to her
lover,
Thomson,
12. Hamorous complaint to Dr. Arbuthnot
of the impertinence of scribblers,
Pope
13. Hymn to adversity,
Gray,
14. The Passions. An ode,
Collins,
1. Lamentation for the loss of sight,
Miltoni,
ib.
2. L'Allegro, or the merry man,
3. On the pursuits of mankind,
Pope,
4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn,
Milton,
5. Parting of Hector and Adromache,
Homer,
6. Faootious history of John Gilpin, Cowper,
7. The creation of ihe world,
Milton,
8. Overthrow of the rebel angels,
ib.
9. Alexander's fenst, or the power of music, Dryden,
1. Romulus to the people of Rome, after building
the city,
Hooke,
ib.
2. Hannibal' to Scipio Africanus,
ib.
3. Scipio's reply,
4. Calisthenes reproof of Cleon's flattery to
Alexander,
Q. Curtius,
5. Caius Marius to the Romans,
Hooke,
ib.
6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army,
7. Hannibal the Carthagenian army,
ib.
S. Adherbal to the Roman senators,
Sallust,
9. Canaleius to the Roman consuls,
Hooke,
ib.
10. Junius Brutus over the dead body of Lucretia,
lli Demosthenes to the Athenians,
Lansdown,
12. Jupiter to the inferior deities,
Homer,
13. Æneas to
Virgil,
14. Moloch to the infernal powers,
Nlilton,
15. Speech of Belial, advising peace,
ib.
1. Hamlet's advice to the players, Tragedy of Hasiet, 369
2. Douglas' account of himself, Tragedy of Douglas, 370
3.
-the hermit,
ib.
371
4. Sempronius' speech for war, Tragedy of Cato, 372
5. Lucins' speech for peace,
ib.
ib.
6. Hotspur's account of the fop,
1 Henry IV.
372
7.
soliloquy on the contents of a letter, ib.
373
8. Othello's apology for his marriage, Tragedy of Othello, 374
9, Henry IV's soliloquy on sleep,
2 Henry IV.
375
10. Bobadil's melbod of defeating an
army,
Every mun in his humor, 376
11. Soliloquy of Hamlet's uncle on the
murder of his brother,
377
12. Soliloquy of Hamlet on death,
ib.
$78
13. Falstaff's encomiums on sack,
2 Henry IV.
ib.
14. Prologue to the Tragedy of Cato,
Pope,
379
15. Cato's soliloquy on the immortality
of the soul,
Tragedy of Cato,
380
17. Speech of Henry V. at the siege of
Harfleur,
Shakespeare's Henry V. 391
18.
- before the battle
of Agincourt,
ib.
382
19. Soliloquy of Dick the apprentice, Farce the Apprentice, ib.
20. Cassius instigating Brutus to join the
conspiracy against Cesar, Tragedy of Julius Cesar, 383
21. Brutas' harrangue on the death of Cesar, ib.
385
22. Antony's oration over Cesar's body,
ib.
ib.
23. Falstaff's soliloquy on honor,
Henry IV.
388
24. Part of Richard IIId's soliloquy the night
preceding the Battle of Bosworth, Tragedy of Richard Hild.ib.
25. The world compared to a stage, As you like it, 389
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