kind friend, the Rev. Montagu Pennington, whose valuable contributions he had already received in the former part in which also he here begs leave to repeat his warm thanks for the papers furnished to him by Capel Lofft, Esq. whose reputation is too far extended to require any eulogy from the author.

Qctober 10, 1813.

CONTENTS AND MOTTOS.

VOL I.

No.

1. ON the Consequences of War; with a Poem in com-

mendation of the Feudal Times.

2. On the Effects of Rural Scenery.

"These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!" Milton.

3. On the different Taste of Virgil and Horace with

respect to Rural Scenery.

"Flumina amam, sylvasque inglorius."

Virg.

4. On the State best adapted to Human Happiness.

5. Literature the only permanent Vehicle of Fame.

-Ignotique longa

Nocte, carent quia vate sacro."

Hor.

6. On Scott's Lay.

"Of ancient deeds so long forgot,

Of feuds, whose memory was not.'

7. On the proper Objects of Biography.

Scott's Lay.

"Nec ea solum in claris et honoratis viris, sed in vita etiam

privata, et quiete."

8. On Rowley and Ossian.

"Amovitque sinus, et gentès maluit ortus

Mirari, quam nosse, tuos."

Cic. de Senect.

Lucan.

No.

9. On the Belief of Supernatural Beings.

"Nec me solum ratio ac disputatio impulit ut ita crederem;

sed nobilitas etiam summorum philosophorum et aucto-

ritas."
Cic. de Senect.

10. How far Genius, when properly exerted, brings its

own Reward with it.

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Rectius occupat

Nomen Beati, qui Deorum

Muneribus sapienter uti."

Hor.

11. Hints for the Ruminator, and remarks on his style,

and gravity and candour of manner and senti-

14. On the Traits and Concomitants of Poetical Genius.

"Sic animis natum inventumque poema juvandis,

Si paulum a summo discessit, vergit ad imum."

Hor.

15. Harry Random's Second Letter to the Ruminator.

"Quid æternis minorem

Consiliis animum fatigas?

Hor.

16. Reflections arising from the Season of the Year.

"The dark and pillowy cloud; the sallow trees,

Seem o'er the ruins of the year to mourn;

And cold, and hollow the inconstant breeze
Sobs thro' the falling leaves, and wither'd fern."

Cb. Smith.

No.

17. On some Passages of Pope's Translation of Homer.

"Qui quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non,

Plenius ac melius Chrysippo et Crantore dicit."

18. On the ancient English Families.

"Stat magni nominis umbra."

Lucan.

19. On the conduct of the Censura Literaria.

"Jactat inæqualem Matho me fecisse libellum,

Si verum est, laudat carmina nostra Matho."

Hor.

Mart.

20. On the Sonnets of Milton, with a Translation of

one of his Italian Sonnets.

Si foret hoc nostrum fato dilatus in ævum,

Detereret sibi multa."

21. On Dreams.

Hor.

"Observe you not sometimes, that you wake out of quite a

different sort of world from that to which your days are

accustomed? On your efforts to grasp them by recol-

lection the thin ideas shrink away, and in a few mo-

ments are quite vanished."
Miss Talbot's Essays.

22. On Books.

66 Quæ sunt igitur epularum, aut ludorum aut scortorum

voluptates cum his voluptatibus comparandæ ?".

Cic.

23. On Mrs. Carter's Letters.

"Sermo oritur non de villis domibusve alienis ;

Nec mell necne lepos saltet ; sed quid magis ad nos

Pertinet, et nescire malum est, agitamus."

Hor.

24. On the Pleasures of Reading.

"While fancy, like the finger of a clock,

Runs the great circuit, and is still at home."

Cowper.

25. How far History is true.

"History is philosophy, teaching by example."

Bolingbroke, from Dion. Hali.

No.

26. On Imprisonment for Debt.

"Hither then,

Ye sons of pity, and ye sons of thought,
Whether by public zeal, and patriot love,
Or by compassion's gentle stirring wrought,

O hither come!"

Dodd's Thoughts in Prison.

27. On modern Poetry; and particularly on Scott's

Romance of Marmion.

28. Genius incompatible with a narrow Taste.

"Many people have been employed in finding out obscure

and refined beauties, in what appear to ordinary obser-

vation his very defects."

Miss Baillie.

29. Traits in the character of Gray the Poet.

"We poets are, upon a poet's word,

Of all mankind the creatures most absurd."

30. On the Severity of Fashionable Criticism.

"Let no unworthy mien her form debase,

But let her smile, and let her frown with grace."

31, On Adulation of the Great.

Brown.

"Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est. Hor.

32. Character of, and extracts from, Habingdon's

Castara.

"To virtue only and her friends a friend,

The world beside may murmur or commend."

Pope.

33. Rank, and Riches, and Ease of Heart, not favour-

able to Intellectual Exertion.

"Sed quæ Tibur æquæ fertile perfluunt,

Et spissæ nemorum comæ

Fingent Æolio carmine nobilem."

Hor.