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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
1781.
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The "Lives of the Poets" completed. Observations upon,
and various Readings in, the Life of Cowley. - Waller.
Milton.
Parnell.
Dryden.
- Akenside.
Pope. Broome.
Blackmore. - Philips.
Addison.
Congreve. Tickell.
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- Lord Lyttelton. — Young. - - Swift.
Warren Hastings.
CHAPTER II
· Liberty and Necessity. — Picture of a
Man, by Shakspeare and by Milton. - Registration of
Deeds. - Duty of a Member of Parliament.
of a Bishop. "Merriment of Parsons.'
Mudge. Dr. Walter Harte.
Dancing. Sir Philip Jennings Clerk. American War.
CHAPTER III.
Dinner at Mrs. Garrick's. Miss Hannah More. - Mudge's
"Sermons." — A Printer's Devil. Quotation. Letter-
writing. Bet Flint. Oratory. Beauclerk's Library.
English Sermons.
Blue-Stocking Clubs.
Monckton. - Talking for Victory.
A Cui Bono Man.
-"Heroic Epistle."- Lord Carlisle's Poems. — Dr.
Barnard. -"Of Tory and Whig.". Visit to Welwyn.
Dr. Young. Trusting to Impressions. — Original Sin.-
Ancient Egyptians. Wealth. Memory and Recollee-
tion. - Marrying a pretty Woman.
Mr. Bewley. - Johnson's Hearth-broom. Dr. Patten.
"Kindness and Fondness." - Life. Old
Age. Evils of Poverty.
Prayer on leaving Streatham.
Visit to Cowdry. - Nichols's "Anecdotes.".
66 Archeological Dictionary." Dr. Patten
- Exaggeration. — Neglect
Crabbe's "Village."- Keep-
- Lords Mansfield, Loughborough, and
-"Quos Deus
vult perdere," &c. - Prince of Wales. - Burney's Travels.
· Chinese Architecture. — Innovation.
Tyburn. - Dr.
Hurd. Parentheses. -"Derrick or Smart.". -"The
great Twalmley.' Owen Cambridge. — Family His-
tories. "Turkish Spy." - Orchards.
Origin of Language. Madness. . Rev. 'James Comp-
ton
Oratory.
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CHAPTER VI.
1783.
Population of London.- Natural Affection.- Self-defence.-
Duelling. Corpulency.. Government of India. Re-
Liberty of Teaching.
“Alias.”—Virgil. — Cant. — Hospitality. — Miss Burney.
Barry's Pictures. Baxter's Works. Devotion.
Johnson attacked with a Stroke of the Palsy.— Recovery.
Visit to Langton at Rochester
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CHAPTER VII.
Death of Mrs. Williams. - Conversation. - French Litera-
ture. Dr. Priestley. Candour. Mrs. Siddons.
Mrs. Porter.
- John
Philip Kemble. George Anne Bellamy. - Lord Car-
lisle's Tragedy. — Unconstitutional Influence of the Scotch
Peers.
Ossian.
- Old Horses. - Mickle's "Lusiad."
Rules for the Essex Head Club
CHAPTER VIII.
228
clesiastical Discipline. - Fear of Death. Capel Lofft.-
of Rome. Whig and Tory.
Testimony.
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Infidel Writers. Church
Helen
Oxford.
Newton on
Pitt. - Radcliffe's Travelling Fellowships.
Jeremy Taylor. Iffley.
Bate. John Henderson.
Dr. Nowell. Rev. Henry
Balance of Misery
279
tuition and Sagacity. Lord Thurlow. - Country Life.-
shire. -
Correspondence. Air Balloons..
Lichfield.— Uttoxeter.- The Learned Pig.
to Oxford. Return to London.
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