CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

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

the Fine Arts - - - - - -

LETTER II.

style... - - -

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LETTER III.

Sources of Fine Composition - - - -

LETTER IV.

The Sublime . . . .

LETTER V.

The Pathetic . . . . .

LETTER VI.

The Ludicrous · · · · ·

LETTER VII.

Language....Perspicuity... Purity - - - -

.. LETTER VIII.

Harmony.....Sentences . . . .. . :

LETTER IX.

Ornament....Amplification - - - ..

. LETTER X.

Figurative Language....Comparisons and Similies .

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LETTER XI.

Metaphors

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LETTER XII.

Allegory....Allusion.....Catachresis...Antithesis · -

LETTER XIII.

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

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

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LETTER XV.

Didactic Composition...Analysis and Synthesis

· LETTER XVI.

Oratory....Parts of an Oration - -

LETTER XVII.

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

Of the Bar . .

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LETTER XVIII. .

Rise and Progress of Eloquence

LETTER XIX.

· Eloquence of the Pulpit

cloquence of the Pulpit - - -

LETTER XX.

„Narration..... Description - - -

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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 - - - - - 181

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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 - - 198

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 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 , . . . . . 261

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 . . . . . 319

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 -