THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS.

WITH

PREFACES,

BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL.

BY

JAMES FERGUSON, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF THE "NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY."

Second Edition.

IN FORTY VOLUMES.

XXII.

ADVENTURER, VOL. III.

LONDON:

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1823.

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94. IDLENESS, however fortunate, incapable of Felicity.

Story of Ned Froth.
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95. Apology for apparent Plagiarism. Sources of lite-

rary Variety.
Johnson.

96. The necessity of reducing Imagination under the

Dominion of Reason exemplified.

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97. Observations on the Tempest concluded. Warton.

98. Account of Tim Wildgoose by himself.-ANON.

Project to prevent the Disappointment of modern

Ambition.
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99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded.

Johnson.

100. Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood: the Life of

Nomentanus.

101. Blemishes in the Paradise Lost.

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Wurton.

Johnson.

102. Infelicities of Retirement to Men of Business.

103. Natural and adventitious Excellence less desirable

than Virtue. Almerine and Shelimah; a Fairy

Tale.

104. The Fairy Tale concluded.

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NO.

105. On the Fragments of Menander.

Warton.

106. Insensibility of Danger, when mistaken for Cou

rage.

Hawkesworth. 107. Different Opinions equally plausible. Johnson. 108. The Uncertainty of human Things. 109. A Visit to Bedlam with Dean Swift: a Vision.

Johnson.

Warton.

110. Pity not an Expression of strong Benevolence.

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111. The Pleasures and Advantages of Industry.

ness.

Johnson.

112. Ill Effects of general Familiarity and wanton RudeHawkesworth. 113. Observations on Shakspeare's King Lear. Warton. 114. The Value of Life fixed by Hope and Fear, and therefore dependent upon the Will: an Eastern Story.

- 113. The Itch of Writing universal.

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Johnson.

116. Observations on King Lear continued Warton. 117. Danger of assuming the Appearance of Evil. The Story of Desdemona. Hawkesworth.

118. The Story of Desdemona concluded.

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Johnson.

119. The Folly of creating inartificial Wants. 120. The Miseries of Life.

121. The Adventures of a Louse.

122. Observations on King Lear concluded. 123 Find Ffects of fashionable Levites.

of Flavills.

124 The Story continued.

Johnson.

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Warton. The Story

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18. The Story concluded.

130. Solitude not eligible.

EuwResworth.

Eun Resworth.

Joans.

Warton.

12. In what Ats tad Ancients excel the Moderns.

128. Men inferendy employed unjustly censured by

132. Benevolence urged from the Misery of Solitude: an

Eastern Story.

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133. In what Arts the Moderns excel the Ancients.

Warton.

134. The Cruelty of deserting natural Children, and the Danger of slight Breaches of Duty. Agamus's Account of his Daughter.

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139. The Design of the critical Papers in the Adven

turer.

Warton.

140. Account of the general Plan, and Conclusion of the

Work.

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