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Essay IV. The same Subject continued

Essay V.-On Reason and Imagination

Essay VI.-On Application to Study

77

Essay VII.-On Londoners and Country People

Essay VIII.-On the Spirit of Obligations

181

Essay IX.-On the Old Age of Artists

205

Essay X.-On Envy

229

Essay XI.-On Sitting for one's Picture

255

Essay XII.-Whether Genius is conscious of its Powers? 279

ERRATA.

P. 141-for the friend of Dante, read the admirer of Dante.
P. 216-17-for Sir Harry Englefield, read Captain Englefield.
P. 266-for Earl Cowper, read Earl Gower.

Motto to Essay on Prose-style of Poets

"Do you read or sing? If you sing, you sing very ill !"

ESSAY I.

ON THE PROSE-STYLE OF POETS.

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