THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. XII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; CONTENTS TO VOL. XII. 381. CHEERFULNESS preferable to Mirth. Addison. 382. On the frank Acknowledgment of Faults 383. Sir Roger de Coverley's Visit to Spring Gar- 393. Reflections on the Delights of Spring Addison. 401. Correspondence between Amoret a Jilt and 402. Letters from Sylvia, complaining of an un- natural Mother-from a married man in Love with his Ward-concerning a profligate Lover- 403. Speculations of Coffee-house Politicians on the Death of the King of France 404. On the misapplication of Nature's Gifts 405. On the Improvement of sacred Music Addison. 406. Letters on the Joys and Satisfactions of pri- vate Life-Translation of a Lapland Song Steele. 425. Beauties of the Evening-Vicissitudes of 426. Story of Basilius Valentine and his Son. Steele. 428. Various Subjects proposed for Speculation |