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improved by country air-Has begun
to read Tacitus, but not to relish him
L. To Mr. West.-Earnest hopes for his
friend's better health, as the warm wea-
ther comes on.-Defence of Tacitus, and
his character.-Of the new Dunciad.-
Sends him a speech from the first scene
of his Agrippina

LI. From Mr. West.-Criticisms on his friend's
tragic style.-Latin hexameters on his
own cough

LII. To Mr. West-Thanks for his verses.-
On Joseph Andrews.-Defence of old
words in tragedy

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LIII. From Mr.West.-Answer to the former,on
the subject of antiquated expressions

LIV. To Mr. West.-Has laid aside his tragedy.
-Difficulty of translating Tacitus

LV. From Mr. West.-With an English ode on
the approach of May

LVI. To Mr. West-Criticises his ode. Of his

own classical studies

LVII. From Mr. West.-Answer to the fore-

going

LVIII. To Mr. West.-Of his own peculiar spe-
cies of melancholy.-Inscription for a
wood in Greek hexameters.-Argument
and exordium of a Latin heroic epistle
from Sophonisba to Massinissa

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LIX. To Dr. Wharton, on taking his degree of
Bachelor of Civil Law

. 130

LX. To Dr. Wharton.-Ridicule on university.
laziness.-Of Dr. Akenside's Poem on
the Pleasures of Imagination

. 132

LXI. To Mr. Walpole.-Ludicrous description
of the Scottish army's approach to the
capital.-Animadversions on Pope. . 134
LXII. To Dr. Wharton.-His amusements in

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town.-Reflections on riches.-Charac-

ter of Aristotle

LXIII: To Mr. Walpole-Observations on his tra-
gedy of Agrippina.-Admirable picture
of true philosophy.

. 138

LXIV. To Mr. Walpole.-Ridicule on Cibber's
Observations on Cicero.-On the mo-
dern Platonic dialogue.-Account of his
own and Mr. West's poetical composi-

tions.

. 141

LXV. To Mr. Walpole. Criticisms on Mr.
Spence's Polymetis

LXVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Ludicrous compliment
of condolence on the death of his fa-
vourite cat, enclosing an ode on that
subject

LXVII. To Dr. Wharton.-Loss by fire of a house
in Cornhill.-On Diodorus Siculus.-
M. Gresset's Poems.-Thomson's Castle
of Indolence.Ode to a Water Nymph,
with a character of its author

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LXVIII. To Dr. Wharton-More on M. Gresset.
-Account of his own projected poem
on the alliance between government and

education

150

LXIX. To Dr. Wharton.-Character of M. de
Montesquieu's L'Esprit des Loix .. 151
LXX. To Dr. Wharton.-Account of books con-
tinued.-Crebillion's Catalina.-Birch's
State Papers.-Of his own studies, and
a table of Greek chronology, which he
was then forming

. 152

LXXI. To Dr. Wharton.-Ludicrous account of
the Duke of Newcastle's installation at
Cambridge. On the ode then perform-
ed, and more concerning the author
of it.

LXXII. To his Mother.-Consolatory on the death

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of her sister

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LXXIII. To Mr. Walpole.-Encloses his Elegy in
a Country Church-yard

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LXXIV. To Dr. Wharton.-Wishes to be able to
pay him a visit at Durham.-On Dr.
Middleton's death.-Some account of
the first volumes of Buffon's Histoire
Naturelle

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LXXV. To Dr. Wharton.-On the ill reception
which his Long Story met with in
town when handed about in manuscript,
and how much his Elegy in a Country
Church-yard was applauded

LXXVI. To Mr. Walpole.-Desires him to give his
Elegy to Mr. Dodsley to be printed im-
mediately, in order to prevent its publi-
cation in a magazine..

LXXVII. To Mr. Walpole.-A letter of thanks for
Mr. Walpole's care of his literary pro-

ductions

LXXVIII. To Mr. Walpole.-Desires his opinion of
the Elfrida of Mr. Mason.-Proposes
some alterations in his Elegy

LXXIX. To Mr. Walpole.-Remarks on the Elegy
of Mr. Lyttelton, and likewise on some
of his own productions

LXXX. To Mr. Walpole.-Humorous inquiry into
the state of Mr. Walpole's forthcoming
publications, &c.

LXXXI. To Mr. Walpole.-With his Hymn to Ad-
versity. Remarks on Dr. C. Middleton's
Essay on Miracles.

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LXXXII. To Mr. Walpole.-With a promise of
shortly sending his Pindaric Ode

LXXXIII. To Mr. Walpole.-Remarks on Dodsley's
Collection of Poems, and on several li-
terary characters of the time, together
with an extract from a poem.

LXXXIV. To Dr. Wharton.-Of Madame Mainte-

non's character and letters.-His high

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opinion of M. Racine. - Of Bishop
Hall's Satires, and of a few of Plato's
Dialogues

. 177

LXXXV. To Mr. Walpole.-Concerning the inten-
tion of publishing Mr. Bentley's designs
for his poems.-Refuses to have his own
portrait prefixed to that work . . . 179
LXXXVI. To Mr. Mason.-On the death of his fa-

ther.

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