MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

TOBIAS SMOLLETT, M.D.

WITH

MEMOIRS

OF

HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS,

BY

ROBERT ANDERSON, M.D.

THE SIXTH EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOLUME III.

CONTAINING

THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE, PART II.

AND

PLAYS AND POEMS.

TOR LIBR

LEW-YORE

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CONTENTS

OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

CHAP. LXXXI. The memoirs of a lady of quality
...............1

LXXXII. He persuades Cadwallader to assume the character of a magician, in

which he acquires a great share of reputation, by his responses to three fe-

males of distinction, who severally consult the researches of his art ......133

LXXXIII. Peregrine and his friend Cadwallader, proceed in the exercise of

the mystery of fortune-telling, in the course of which they achieve various

adventures

....)

LXXXIV. The conjurer and his associate, execute a plan of vengeance against

certain infidels, who pretend to despise their art; and Peregrine achieves an

adventure with a young nobleman

LXXXV. Peregrine is celebrated as a wit and a patron, and proceeds to enter-

tain himself at the expense of whom it did concern....... .............. 162

LXXXVI. Peregrine receives a letter from Hatchway, in consequence of which

he repairs to the garrison, and performs the last offices to his aunt. He is

visited by Mr Gauntlet, who invites him to his marriage

........169

LXXXVII. Peregrine sets out for the garrison, and meets with a nymph of

the road, whom he takes into keeping, and metamorphoses into a fine lady 184

LXXXVIII. He is visited by Pallet; contracts an intimacy with a New-

market nobleman; and is by the knowing ones taken in ..................193

LXXXIX. He is taken into the protection of a great man; sets up for a mem-

ber of parliament; is disappointed in his expectation, and finds himself egre-

giously outwitted......
..........199

XC. Peregrine commences minister's dependent; meets by accident with Mrs

Gauntlet, and descends gradually in the condition of life
..........211

XCI. Cadwallader acts the parts of a comforter to his friend; and, in his turn,

is consoled by Peregrine, who begins to find himself a most egregious dupe .221

XCII. He is indulged with a second audience by the minister, of whose sincerity

he is convinced. His pride and ambition revive, and again are mortified 228

XCIII. Peregrine commits himself to the public, and is admitted member of a

college of authors........

XCIV. Further proceedings of the college..........

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..234

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.........253

XCV. The young gentleman is introduced to a virtuoso of the first order, and

commences yelper

XCVI. Peregrine, finding himself neglected by Sir Steady Steerwell, expostu-

lates with him in a letter; in consequence of which he is forbid his house,

loses his pension, and incurs the charge of lunacy

XCVII. He writes against the minister; by whose instigation he is arrested,

and moves himself, by habeas corpus into the Fleet

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..260

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