BRITISH ESSAYISTS.

WITH

PREFACES,

BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL.

BY

JAMES FERGUSON, ESQ.

AUTHOR OF THE “ NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY."

Second edition.

IN, FORTY VOLUMES.

III.

TATLER, VOL. III.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND co.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG;

W. SHARPE AND SON; ROBINSON AND CO.; G. WALKER; J. EVANS AND SONS; R. DOBSON ; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON : ALSO, J. CARFRAE, AND J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH;

AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO, GLASGOW,

1823.

TATLER.

WITH

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Viresque acquiret eando.

VIRG.

A NEW EDITION, IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG ;

J. SHARPE AND SON; ROBINSON AND CO.; G. WALKER ;
J, EVANS AND SONS ; R. DOBSON; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON ;
ALSO, J. CARFRAE, AND J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH ;

AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

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106 Catalogue of Poetical Stock-Cri-

ticism on a Passage in Hamlet-

Surrender of Mr. Jeffery Grogram sTEELE.

107 Case of a Lover tormented by a

Coquette .....

108 Degradation of the Stage-Dignity

of Human Nature-Errors of the

French Writers

ADDISON.

109 Fashionable Visiting-Notice from

the Upholders

STEELE.

101 Court of Judicature of the Dead in
Reason

ADDISON and

111 On the prevalence of

Irreligious Principles

112 Amusements and Relaxations of

great Men-Misfortune of Idle-

ness .........

113 Inventory of a Beau: HUGHES Pe-

tition of William Jingle, Coach-

maker Notice to the Dead..........

114 Death-bed Scene ADDISON and

115 Squire Nicolini—Taste for Puppet-

shows--Death and Character of

Sir Hannibal-Fable

116 Court of Judicature on the Petticoat ADDISON

117 On the Pleasure derived from the

Deliverance of the Good from

Danger-The Author's Dream ....

118 Irregular Conduct of the Dead-