THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL, BY THE REV. LIONEL THOMAS BERGUER, LATE OF ST. MARY HALL, OXON: FELLOW EXTRAORDINARY OF THE IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND J. ALLMAN, PRINCES STREET, HANOVER SQUARE: W. Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; A. B. Dulau and Co. Soho Square; CONTENTS TO VOL. V. 212. On Simplicity of Ornament-Letters on an Ass in the Lion's Skin-From a Virgin, &c. Steele. 213. On Dissimulation and Simulation-Tom True- 214. On the Rigid and the Supple-Account of a Steele. - Addison. Steele. 219. Impertinence of professed Wits-Character of Tom Mercer-Letters and Petitions . 220. Account of the Church Thermometer. Addison. 226. Life of Margery, alias John Young, commonly Addison. Steele. Steele. 246. On a Censorious Disposition-Letters to De- Steele. 251. On Virtuous Independence-Where true Hap- Steele. 252. Defence of Sober Drinking-Letter from Ralph Steele. Addison and Steele. Addison and Steele. 257. Wax-work Representation of the Religions of 258. Letter on the Use of the Phrase North Briton: Swift, Prior, Rowe-On "a Person of Quality"- A Lady invested by several Lovers-From a Addison and Steele. Addison and Steele. |