From these works, many of which possess considerable merit, though not more than two or three of them have been reprinted, I trust that the selection has been such as to render this portion of THE GLEANER peculiarly interesting and instructive.

Hadleigh, Suffolk, Jan. 1811.

TO

VOL. III.

No.

ADVERTISEMENT to Vol. III. and IV.

CI. Portrait of a genius, and description of his per-

son. Inconveniences and mortifications of

being remarkably low of stature. Instances

of great and wonderful men of that size.

CII. On good humour, one of the first requisites in

society

CIII. The greatest virtue sometimes the parent of

the greatest crimes. Story of Frank Leeson

CIV. Letter to the Right Hon. William Beckford

on Mr. Baker's method of curing_cows

CV. On the present state of learning. On purity

of style

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CVI. Serious considerations on the inefficacy of no-

minal Christianity to promote our future

salvation. Hymn

CVII. Unity of design in the structure of a poem.

Allusion to local circumstances censured.

Poetry being defined to be an universal lan-

guage. Blackmore not inferior in his de

signs to the poets of antiquity.

Remark

on Dryden. Examples of locality, Homer,

Chaucer, Pope

CVIII. Men happier under the dispensations of Pro-

vidence than by their own choice. The

story of Segued and Ali.

CIX. The story of Segued and Ali concluded

CX. On genius-Complaints of its paucity ill-

founded, as proceeding from want of culti-

vation. Genius to be discovered even in the

dark ages. The land of liberty, the land of

genius. Decay of eloquence and temporary

duration of poetry after the enslavement of

Rome by Augustus. A series of learned

men produced by Greece. Some remarks

on an unfair position in the 127th paper of

No.

CXI.

the Adventurer. The falsehood of a

maxim very generally received
Critique on the Heroic poem of the

Knave of Hearts

CXII. Conclusion of the critique

CXIII. On Language-the causes which contri-

bute to the improvement or alteration of

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it. The progress of the English language 120

CXIV. History of Frederic

CXV. Letter from an Etonian, containing a vin-

dication and character of Addison's

style

CXVI. On conversation-directions for the proper

131

144

use of it

CXXV. On the advantages arising to society from

the multiplication of newspapers

220

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customs

CXXVI. The same concluded

CXXVII. Omai's description of British manners and

CXXVIII. Good effects of an attachment to family,

exemplified in the history of Agrestis

CXXIX. The history of Agrestis concluded

CXXX. On the abuse of words...

CXXXI. Observations on the proclamation for the

encouragement of piety and virtue, and

for preventing and punishing of vice,

profaneness, and immorality.

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237

250

258

271

CXXXII. Letter from Duke Humphrey

CXXXIII. Vindication of Sunday schools

CXXXIV. On satyrical writers

CXXXVI. On epitaphs

CXXXV. The distresses of a modest man

CXXXVII. Happiness consists in the pursuit-Fish-

ing and shooting

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293

303

312

322

332

342

CXLI. Mischief arising to a country gentle-

man's family from a winter spent in

town

CXLII. The same subject pursued in a dream..

CXLIII. Gratitude and Ingratitude. Character

of Eucharis

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