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VOL. III.

No.

ADVERTISEMENT to Vol. III. and IV.
CI. Portrait of a genius, and description of his per-
son. Inconveniences and mortifications of
being remarkably low of stature. Instances
of great and wonderful men of that size
CII. On good humour, one of the first requisites in
society

CIII. The greatest virtue sometimes the parent of
the greatest crimes. Story of Frank Leeson
CIV. Letter to the Right Hon. William Beckford
on Mr. Baker's method of curing_cows
CV. On the present state of learning. On purity
of style

CVI. Serious considerations on the inefficacy of no-
minal Christianity to promote our future
salvation. Hymn

CVII. Unity of design in the structure of à poem.
Allusion to local circumstances censured.
Poetry being defined to be an universal lan-
guage. Blackmore not inferior in his de-
signs. to the poets of antiquity.

Remark

on Dryden. Examples of locality, Homer,
Chaucer, Pope

CVIII. Men happier under the dispensations of Pro-
vidence than by their own choice. The
story of Segued and Ali ....

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CIX. The story of Segued and Ali concluded
CX. On genius-Complaints of its paucity ill-
founded, as proceeding from want of culti-
vation. Genius to be discovered even in the
dark ages. The land of liberty, the land of
genius. Decay of eloquence and temporary
duration of poetry after the enslavement of
Rome by Augustus. A series of learned
men produced by Greece. Some remarks
on an unfair position in the 127th paper of

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No. CI.

Τυδευς, μικρόν δεμάς, αλλα μακητης.

HOMER.

Tydeus, of person small! what then?
Great heroes may be little men.

COLMAN.

NOTWITHSTANDING the eminent advantages resulting from the many rare talents and qualities necessarily included in the illustrious character of a genius, I am, I must confess, neither the most completely happy, nor the most universally accomplished man in the creation. Nature, who has in some instances been lavish in her bounties to me, has in others been rather too unkind, and, indeed, remarkably niggard of her favours. Vanity, for example, she has so exuberantly poured upon me, that my portion, to say no more of it, is at least sufficient to em

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