CONTENTS.
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Essay I.—On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin | 1 |
Essay II.—On Milton’s Sonnets | 17 |
Essay III.—On going a Journey | 33 |
Essay IV.—On Coffee-house Politicians | 55 |
Essay V.—On the Aristocracy of Letters | 91 |
Essay VI.—On Criticism | 115 |
Essay VII.—On great and little Things | 145 |
Essay VIII.—On familiar Style | 183 |
Essay IX.—On Effeminacy of Character | 199 |
Essay X.—Why distant Objects please | 217 |
Essay XI.—On Corporate Bodies | 239 |
Essay XII.—Whether Actors ought to sit in the Boxes | 261 |
Essay XIII.—On the Disadvantages of intellectual Superiority | 279 |
Essay XIV.—On Patronage and Puffing | 303 |
Essay XV.—On the Knowledge of Character | 335 |
Essay XVI.—On the Picturesque and Ideal | 369 |
Essay XVII.—On the Fear of Death | 381 |