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PORTRAIT OF LAURENCE STERNE

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HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754).

The Immersion of an Ambassador. -"Joseph

Andrews"

Leonard and Paul.—"Joseph Andrews"

Slippery Sailors.—"A Voyage to Lisbon"

Partridge at the Play.—“Tom Jones”

Essay on Nothing .

Opening Scenes of “Tom Thumb the Great"

Different Hats-Different Principles.-"Jonathan

Wild”

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THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771).

Ode on a Drowned Cat

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LORD LYTTLETON (1709-1773).

Dialogue Between Mercury and Mrs. Modish.-

“Dialogues of the Dead"

Dialogue Between Mercury, an English Duellist, and

a North American Savage.--"Dialogues of the

Dead”

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LAURENCE STERNE (1713-1768).

Uncle Toby's Courtship.—“Tristram Shandy”

The Siege of the Cities in the Kitchen-Garden.-

“Tristram Shandy"

Madame De V-'s Religion.-"A Sentimental

Journey"

Smelfungus.—"A Sentimental Journey"

The Case of Delicacy._"A Sentimental Journey".

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JAMES MERRICK (1720-1769).

The Chameleon

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DAVID GARRICK (1716-1779).

The Dictated Letter.—“The Guardian”.

Prologue to "Sheridan's School for Scandal”

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TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721-1771).

Commodore Trunnion's Wedding-Day.-"Peregrine

Pickle”

The Origin of Breeches.—“The History of an

Atom”

Unregretted School Days.—“Roderick Random”

Captain Weazel and the Highwayman.—“Roderick

Random”

Tabitha on Domestic Economy. -"Humphrey

Clinker".

Bramble and Barton at Court.-—“Humphrey

Clinker"

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SAMUEL FOOTE (1720-1777).

Anecdotes

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SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784).

The Retired Merchant.-"The Adventurer"

Ambitions of Authorship.-—"The Adventurer”

Wit and Learning.--"The Rambler”

Gulosulus.-"The Rambler"

Fictions and Facts of Country Life.—“The Idler" .

On Lying News-Writers.--"The Idler"

The Style Terrific.-"The Idler"

Anecdotes

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CHARLES CHURCHILL (1731-1764).

Lothario (Lord Sandwich). "The Candidate"

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774).

Moses Acquires a Gross of Green Spectacles.—“The

Vicar of Wakefield"

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Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

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Tony's Directions to the Travellers.—“She Stoops

to Conquer" .

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The Double Transformation

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On Fashions.-"Letters from a Citizen of the World” 140

On Physicians.—"Letters from a Citizen of the

World”

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The True Oriental.—"Letters from a Citizen of the

World”

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774). -Continued.

Mr. and Mrs. Tibbs.-"Letters from a Citizen of the

World”

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WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800).

John Gilpin's Ride

Report of an Adjudged Case

Pairing-Time Anticipated

The Love of the World Reproved

HANNAH COWLEY (1743–1809).

Miss Letitia Plays the Hoyden.—"The Belle's

Stratagem”

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BISHOP PERCY (1729-1811).

King John and the Abbot.—“Reliques of Ancient

English Poetry"

The Distracted Puritan.-“Reliques of Ancient

English Poetry”

Lilli Burlero.--"Reliques of Ancient English Poetry”

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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816).

Mrs. Malaprop and Sir Anthony Absolute Settle

Lydia's Future.—"The Rivals".

Bob Acres Sends a Challenge. -“The Rivals"

The Literary Lady

A Domestic Tiff._"The School for Scandal”

Gossip at Lady Sneerwells.—“The School for

Scandal”.

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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816).-Continued.

Calendar of the Months

The Art of Puffing.--"The Critic"

Lord Erskine's Simile

Anecdotes

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WILLIAM COBBETT (1762–1835).

Writing Plays Like Shakespeare's.—“Advice to a

Young Man”.

The Complicated Ceremony of Shaving.—“Advice

to a Youth”

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GEORGE CANNING (1770-1827).

The University of Gottingen.—“The Rovers”

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