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CONTENTS
page Calendar of Principal Events iv Introduction vii The Plan of an English Dictionary 1 Lives of Eminent Persons 19 The Rambler 21 The Adventurer 71 Preface to Shakspeare 76 Thoughts on Agriculture 97 From a Review of "A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil" 101 The Idler 105 Rasselas 128 A Journey to the Western Islands 144 Lives of the English Poets: From Cowley 150 „ Milton 156 „ Butler 164 „ Waller 164 „ Dryden 167 „ Smith 168 „ Addison 169 „ Prior 171 „ Congreve 172 „ Savage 173 „ Swift 174 „ Pope 178 „ Young 188 „ Gray 188 Letters: To His Wife 190
