Lift of the 4-6-32 CONTENTS. No. VOL. XLIII. Page. 51. SOLEMN Synod of females---State of the fe- 1 12 53. Threatening letter to Simon Olive-branch, on his intended visit to the metropolis--His head as unsafe as the pope's---Denounced by a club of patriots---A new Allegro---Pleasures of the town 24 54. Story of the Athenian madman---The mad carpenter and the king of Bohemia---Simon Olive-branch enters the metropolis---His surprises--- Universal pregnancy -- Letter from madam Olive-branch---Naked bosoms ---Swelled necks---Advertisement thereon --- Conjuring friend --- Modern improvements---Proclamation of the female synod 32 55. Simon still in the capital---Catalogue of vulgar errors---Character of a polished man-- No. Two characters from Mons. La Bruyere 56. Sentiments on the spring--A London spring for salmon Lowhen 57. Sermon to a clerical congregation---Pulpit eloquence---Clerical fops 58. Hospitality---Curious list of the moral benefits wrought by good dinners---Story from Lonicerus, of the devil and a drunkard---Fable of gout and a flea 59. The philosophy of the comfortable---Character of Demades- Greek and Roman ideas of comfort--English the only classics in the comfortable---Introduction and reception of Anacharsis 60. Translation---Specimen of a modern translation of Virgil 61. Same subject--- Difficulty and dignity of translation 62. Modern sensibility---Grown gentlemen and ladies taught sensibility on mathematical principles---Anecdote of a king of France ---Poem on sensibility---Poem on a sick infant 53. Thoughts on love---The hereditary complexion of the Olive-branch family---A mysterious pudding--- Mr. Isaac Ŏlivebranch's poetical receipt---Queen Elizabeth and lord Essex---Simon's mother not degenerate---The manner in which love operates on Simon himself---Love's concerns transacted on the Exchange---Clari Page. 44 56 66 77 86 97 109 121 |