THE

ADVENTURER.

BY

JOHN HAWKESWORTH, LL. D.

AND OTHERS.

Tentanda via est; qua me quoque possim
Tollere humo, victorque virum volitare per ora.

VIRG.

On venturous wing in quest of praise I go,
And leave the gazing multitude below.

A NEW EDITION, IN THREE 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,

1823.

C. Whittingham, Chiswick.

CONTENTS.

VOL. III.

940

A244

1823

V.3

NO.

94. IDLENESS, however fortunate, incapable of Felicity.

Story of Ned Froth.
Hawkesworth.

95. Apology for apparent Plagiarism. Sources of lite-

rary Variety.
Johnson.

96. The necessity of reducing Imagination under the

Dominion of Reason exemplified.

Hawkesworth.

97. Observations on the Tempest concluded. Warton.

98. Account of Tim Wildgoose by himself.-ANON.

Project to prevent the Disappointment of modern

Ambition.
Hawkesworth.

99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded.

Johnson.

100. Gradation from a Greenhorn to a Blood: the Life of

Nomentanus.
Hawkesworth.

Warton.

101. Blemishes in the Paradise Lost.

102. Infelicities of Retirement to Men of Business.

Johnson.

103. Natural and adventitious Excellence less desirable

than Virtue. Almerine and Shelimah: a Fairy

Tale.

Hawkesworth.

Hawkesworth.

104. The Fairy Tale concluded.

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