BY WILLIAM ENFIELD, L. L. D.
Lecturer of Belles Lettres, in the Academy of

Warrington.

BOSTON,
PUBLISHD BY JOSEPH LARKIN.

E. C. Beals, Printer.

Page

The Dervise

Spectator 19

Turkish Tale

ibid. 20

Avarice and Luxury

ibid. 21

Pleasure and Pain

ibid. 23

Labuur

World 25

The Old man and his Ass

ibid. 26

Hercules's Choice

Tattler 27

Pity

Mrs. Barbauld 30

The Dead Ass

Sterne 32

The Sword

ibid. 34

Maria

ibid.

36

The Camelion

Merrick 41

The Youth and the Philospher TVhitehead 43

Sir Balaam

Pope 45

Edwin and Emma

Douglas to Lord Randolph

Othello's Apology

Eliza

The Moralizer corrected

The Faithful Friend

Paring Time anticipated

The Needless Alarm

The Modern Rake's Progress

Page:

Home 56

Shakspeare 57

Darwin 59

Cooper

60

ibid. 62

ibid. 64

ibid.

66

Adriano 70

BOOK IN

DIDACTIC PIECES.

On Modesty

Spectator 73

On Cheerfulness

ibid. 76

On Sincerity

Tillotson 79

On Honour

Guardian 81

Ou Good Humour

Rambler 84

On the Knowledge of the World ibid. 88

On the Advantages of uniting Gentle.

ness of Manners with Firmness of

Mind

Ld. Chesterfield 90

On Good Sense

Melmoth 92

On Study

Bacon 94

On Satirical Wit

Sterne

95

Hamlet's Instructions to the Players Shaks. 96

The present condition of Man vindicated Pope

On the Order of Nature

ibid. 99

The Origin of Superstition and Tyranny ibid. 101

On Happiness

ibid, 103

On Virtue

ibid. 106

On Versification

ibid. 108

Lessons on Wisdom

Armstrong 109

Against Indolence; an Epistle

112

Elegy to a young Nobleman Mason 115

97

Page.

On the Miseries of Human Life Thomson 116

Reflections on a future State

ibid. 118

On Procrastination

Young 119

The Pain arising from virtuous Emotions

attended with Pleasure

Akenside 121

On Taste

ibido 124

The Pleasures arising from a cultivated

Imagination

ibid. 125

Slavery

Darwin 127

BOOK IV.

ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES.

On Anger

Holland 129

Virtue our highest interest

Harris 135

The same Subject

ibid. 137

Ou the Immortality of the Soul Spectator ibid.

On the Being of a God

Young 840

BOOK V.

ORATIONS AND HARANGUES.

Junius Brutus over the dead Body of Lu-

cretia

Livy 142

Hannibal to his Soldiers

ibido 144

C. Marius to the Romans, on their hesi-

tating to appoint him General in the

Expedition against Jugurtha, merely

on Account of his Extraction Sallust 147

Calisthenes's Reproof of Cleon's Flatte-

ry to Alexander Quintus Curtius 150

The Scythian Ambassadors to Alexander ibid 151