CONTENTS TO VOL. XXIII. No. BIOGRAPHICAL, Historical, and Critical Preface. 1. Courage, why honoured as a Virtue-Adventurer characterized, and his Achievements projected Hawkesworth. 2. Intellectual and Corporal Labour compared Hawkesworth. 3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment Bathurst. 4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they are universally read Hawkesworth. 5. Remark on Dreaming-Various Transmigrations related by a Flea Hawkesworth. 6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy Spinbrain, Author Bathurst. 7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa 8. The History of Melissa concluded 9. Impropriety of Signs Hawkesworth. Bathurst 10. Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary effects of Virtue and Vice 11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day Hawkesworth. 12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct: Story of Opsinous 13. The Story of Opsinous continued 14. The Story of Opsinous concluded Hawkesworth. 15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Advertisements by Quacks-Pernicious consequences of granting them patents 16. Of instructing by Fiction Hawkesworth. 17. Curiosity necessary to entertainment and know THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. XXIII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; CONTENTS TO VOL. XXIII. No. BIOGRAPHICAL, Historical, and Critical Preface. 1. Courage, why honoured as a Virtue-Adventurer characterized, and his Achievements projected Hawkesworth. 2. Intellectual and Corporal Labour compared Hawkesworth. 3. Project for a new Pantomime Entertainment Bathurst. 4. Of the different kinds of Narrative, and why they are universally read Hawkesworth. 5. Remark on Dreaming-Various Transmigrations related by a Flea Hawkesworth. 6. Project for an Auction of Manuscripts, by Timothy Spinbrain, Author Bathurst. 7. Distress encouraged to hope: the History of Melissa 8. The History of Melissa concluded 9. Impropriety of Signs Hawkesworth. Bathurst 10. Happiness and Misery, how far the necessary effects of Virtue and Vice 11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day Hawkesworth. 12. The Influence of Infidelity upon Moral Conduct: Story of Opsinous 13. The Story of Opsinous continued 14. The Story of Opsinous concluded Hawkesworth. 15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Advertisements by Quacks Pernicious consequences of granting them patents 16. Of instructing by Fiction Hawkesworth. 17. Curiosity necessary to entertainment and know |