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ration than those of useful bene-

volence. Different effects of the

LOVE of FAME at different periods

of time.-Curfory Remark on Cy-

phers.-IRREGULAR ODE.

V. Speculation on History.-The Rise
and Fall of Empires.-Poffibility
of ENGLAND's downfall.-Reflec-
tions on the probable confequences
of it.-Poem on the SLAVERY of

GREECE

VI. Letter from MUSIDORUS on the

Government of the Paffions,-and

on Silly peculiarities of behaviour.

-From QCTAVIUS, a Candidate

for the vacant feat in the LouNGING

CLUB, with an account of a So-

ciety of Idlers. From OBSER-

VATOR, giving an account of the

various opinions formed con-

cerning the MICROCOSM.

VII. Letter from a fellow-citizen, com-
plaining of certain waggeries of an
old gentleman,-ridiculoufnefs of

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duly expected, and difgufting as
well from their awkward mer-
riment as frequency of repetition.
-Cautions against the use of fuch.
-REFLECTIONS on the Nature of
WIT.- Proposals for opening a
Warehoufe for all the branches of

that commodity

VIII. On Family Pride.-Moderation of
GREGORY GRIFFIN in not boast-

ing of his Ancestors. - Different

Notions of Pride as conceived by

different perfons. - Folly of the

Opinion that Mankind degenerates.

-Mifapplication of the word An-

tediluvian.-Antiquity of a British

Family certainly not honourable.

-Particular duty of Men of Family.

-Equitable treatment of the ci-

tizens of the leffer World

- IX. UNITY of DESIGN in the Struc-
ture of a Poem.-Allufion to local

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ferior in his Defigns to the Poets of
Antiquity.-Remark on DRYDEN.
-Examples of locality,-Homer,
Chaucer,-Pope

paucity

X. On GENIUS.-Complaints of its
ill-founded, as pro-
ceeding from want of cultivation.
-GENIUS to be difcovered even
in the dark ages. The land of li-
berty, the land of GENIUS.-De-
cay of eloquence and temporary
duration of Poetry after the enflave-
ment of Rome by Auguftus.-A
feries of learned men produced by
Greece. Some remarks on an un-

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fair pofition in the 127th paper of
the Adventurer. The falfehood of
a maxim very generally received.
XI. GREGORY GRIFFIN proposes a
difplay of his critical abilities.—
CRITIQUE on the Heroic Poem of
the KNAVE of HEARTS.

XII. Conclufion of the CRITIQUE.—Ad-
monition to the Author's fellow-
citizens on the fubject of the or-
namental

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