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CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

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Introduction..... Principle of Association.....Pleasures from

the Fine Arts

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LETTER XI.

Metaphors

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LETTER XII.

Allegory....Allusion.....Catachresis....Antithesis

101

LETTER XIII.

Metonymy...Synecdoche...Periphrasis.....Personification...

Apostrophe.....Hyperbole.... Irony

110

LETTER XVII.

Different kinds of Oratory.....Eloquence of the Senate.....

Of the Bar

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LETTER XXI.

History..... Ancient Historians..... Scripture History..... Hero-

dotus.... Thucidydes.... Xenophon.....Polybius....Sallust.....

Livy.... Tacitus....Comnena....De Thou....Davilla.... Modern

History....Buchanan.....Clarendon..... Rapin..... Lyttleton....

Hume....Robertson..... Gibbon

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LETTER XXII.

Annals....Chronicles....Memoirs... Biography, &c...Froissart

....Holingshead....Stow....Cæsar.... Princess Anna Comnena

....Alberquerque...Ludlow... Whitlock....Burnet....Dalrym-

ple....Nepos.... Plutarch.... Diogenes Laertius...Suetonius...

Bayle....Dr. Johnson....Biographic Britannica

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LETTER XXIII.

Voyages and Travels....Anson....Hawkesworth....Addison ....

Burnet..... Lady M. W. Montague...Johnson....Fictitious

Narrative.... The Xenophons.....Cervantes......Le Sage.....

Fielding ....Smollett......Šterne....D’Arblois..... Radcliffe.....

Swift....

De Foe....Mrs. Hamilton.... Epistolary Writing.....

Cicero....Pliny....Seneca....Balzac.... Voiture.... Pope, &c....

Dialogue....Plato....Cicero...Lucian....Horne Tooke 208

LETTER XXIV.

Description and Origin of Poetry.....Metre....Rhyme....Eng-

lish Metres

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LETTER XXV.

Thoughts and Language of Poetry

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LETTER XXVI.

The Epigram and Epitaph... The Sonnet... Pastoral Poetry...

Theocritus... Virgil....Spencer... Phillips....Gay...Shenstone 246

LETTER XXVII.

Didactic, Satiric, and Descriptive Poetry... Hesiod... Lucre-

tius.... Virgil....Horace....Boileau...Pope... Rapin.... Mason...

Akenside.... Armstrong....Juvenal....Butler.... Young...Dry-

den..... Prior...... Denham.....Jago..... Goldsmith.....Roscoe.....

Pleasures of Memory

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LETTER XXVIII.

Elegy.... Lyric Poetry.... Epistles... Tales and Fables.... Ovid...

Tibullus.... Propertius.... Pope....Collins....Gray.... Pindar.....

Horace.... Milton..... Dryden....Anacreon.....Cowley... Songs

and Ballads

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LETTER XXIX.

Dramatic Poetry... Tragedy....Æschylus...Sophocles...Euri-

pides....Corneille....Racine... Voltaire..... Shakspeare.....Ot-

way.... Dryden.... Rowe.... Young

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LETTER XXX.

Comedy..... Aristophanes.....Plautus.... Terence.....Moliere....

Shakspeare...Jonson....Beaumont and Fletcher....Dryden

....Congreve.... Farquhar.... Vanburgh....Steele....Addison...

Centlivre....Sheridan

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LETTER XXXI.

Epic Poetry.... Homer.....Apollonius Rhodius..... Virgil....Lu-

can.... Tasso....Camoens....Erecilla.... Voltaire....Milton

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LETTER XXXII.

On the Uses of Classical Learning

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