CONTENTS TO VOL. XXXIX.

No.

52. WITTY sayings of several ancients.

53. Delineation of the life of Tiberius.

54. Review of events in the reign of King Charles

the First-Of the Education of a Prince.

55. Advantages of a happy talent for discerning

Times and Seasons.

56. The Character of a proud Man.

57. Advantages of a great Fortune well applied-A

Poetic rhapsody in the manner of The Task.

58. The Visit to Attalus concluded.

59. Notion that Death may be avoided at will.

60. Meditations on the Character of an Infidel.

61. Of the Morality of Christianity.

62. An Argument for the Evidence of the Christian

Religion.

63. Observations upon the several instances of right

Reason in the Heathen world.

64. Reasons offered a priori for the necessity of a

Mediator.

65. Argument of David Levi for the superiority of

the Miracles wrought by Moses over those which

the Evangelists record of Christ.

66. Farther Defence of the Miracles objected to by

David Levi.

67. The Origin and Progress of Poetry.

68. On natural and acquired Taste.

69. A delineation of Shakspeare's characters of Mac-

beth and Richard-A parallel between him and

Eschylus.

70. The subject continued.

71. Farther continuation.

72. Conclusion of the subject.

No.

73. Remarks upon the Characters of Falstaff and

his group.

74. Ben Jonson's imitations of Philostratus com-

pared with the original Passages-His satirical

glances at Shakspeare instanced.

75. Review of Ben Jonson's Comedy of the Fox.

76. Review of the Sampson Agonistes.

77. Comparative Review of Rowe's Fair Penitent

with the Fatal Dowry of Massinger.

78. The same continued.

79. Conclusion of the Review.

80. Remarks upon Congreve's Comedy of the Dou-

ble Dealer.

81. Observations on the various sorts of Style.

82. Conversation in a Coffee-house upon the Time

past compared with the Time present.

83. The same concluded.

84. General Observations on the social Character.

85. Advice to a Man of Landed Property.

86. Author explains the motives of his Work and

concludes the Third Volume.

87. Written on the last Day of the Year 1789-
Short Review of the remarkable Events within the
period of that Year.

88. The History of Nicolas Pedrosa.

89. The History continued..

90. The History concluded.

91. A Review of the present State of Society in

this Country.

92. Letter from Posthumous, complaining of a cer-

tain Writer who had published a Collection of his

Memoirs and remarkable Sayings.

93. Kit Cracker, a dealer in the Marvellous.

94. Walter Wormwood, an envious Defamer.

95. Letter from Simon Sapling, describing his own

Character.

96. On the Topic of Procrastination.

No.

97. Letter from Benevolus, giving an Account of a

Damper.

98. Letters from various Correspondents, particu-

larly from Gorgon, a self-conceited Painter of the

deformed and terrible.

99. Discovery of a curious Greek Fragment.

100. Athenian Vision.

101. Athenian Vision concluded.

102. Upon the Taste for acting private Plays.

103. Anecdotes of Jack Gayless.

104. Memoirs of a Sentimentalist.

105. Conclusion of the above.

106. Observations on the Passions.

107. The Character of a Flatterer.

108. The Flatterer reformed.

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OBSERVER.

NUMBER LII.

Singula lætus

Exquiritque, auditque, virûm monumenta priorum.

VIRGIL.

OF all our dealers in second-hand wares, few bring their goods to so bad a market, as those humble wits who retail other people's worn-out jokes. A man's good sayings are so personally his own, and depend so much upon manner and circumstances, that they make a poor figure in other people's mouths, and suffer even more by printing than they do by repeating it is also a very difficult thing to pen a witticism; for by the time we have adjusted all the descriptive arrangements of this man said, and t'other man replied, we have miserably blunted the edge of the repartee. These difficulties however have been happily overcome by Mr. Joseph Miller and other facetious compilers, whose works are in general circulation, and may be heard of in most clubs and companies where gentlemen meet, who love to say a good thing without the trouble of inventing it. We are also in a fair train of knowing every thing that a late celebrated author said, as well as wrote, without an exception even of his most secret ejaculations. We may judge how valuable these diaries will be to posterity, when we reflect how much we should now

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