Contents of the Seventh Volume.

LETTERS to and from Mr. WYCHERLEY.
From the Year 1704 to 1710.

P. I

LETTER

I.

F Mr. Dryden's death: his moral cha-racter: the poets who fucceeded him:

the temper of critics.

II. From Mr. Wycherley.

III. Mr. Wycherley's humanity; his encourage-
ment of young writers; concerning the Au-
thor's Paftorals.

IV. From Mr. Wycherley: Anfwer to the former.
V. From the fame.

VI. Some reasons why friendships may be con-
tracted between perfons of unequal years, and
the advantage of fuch friendships.

VII. Against Compliment.

VIII. An account of the duller fort of Country Gentlemen, and Country Life.

IX. From Mr. Wycherley.

X. From Mr. Wycherley. Of the correction of his Poem to Nir. Dryden, and other papers.

XI. Of the fame, a plan for correcting and improving thofe poems.

XII. From Mr. Wycherley.

XIII. On the fame, and further propofals for correct

ing them.

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XIV. From Mr. Wycherley.

XV. More concerning corrections of the poems.

XVI. From Mr. Wycherley, after bis illness.
XVII. From Mr. Wycherley.

XVIII. From Mr. Wycherley. Cancerning the Mif-
cellanies and the Critics.

XIX. Concerning Mifcellanies, and the danger of

young toets.

XX. From Mr. Wycherley.

XXI From Mr. Wycherley.

XXII. From Mr. Wycherley. His defire of his

company; and request to proceed in correcting

his papers.

XXIII. More about the poems.

XXIV. Corrections fent.

XXV. From Mr. Wycherley. In anfwer to the ac-

count of the ftate of his papers.

XXVI. The last advice about his papers, to turn

them into Select Maxims and Reflections,

which Mr. Wycherley agreed to and begun be-
fore his death.

LETTERS to and from Mr. WALSH.

LETTER

From 1705 to 1707.

I. Mr. Walsh to Mr. Wycherley.

II. Mr Walsh to Mr. Pope.
ftoral and pafloral comedy.

III. The answer. Of correcting,

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Concerning pa-

and the ex-

treme of it. Of paftoral comedy, and its

character.

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character. Of the liberty of borrowing from
the ancients.

IV. From Mr. Walsh. On the fame fubjects.
V. From Mr. Walsh. Of mechanical critics;
of wit and conceit, a request concerning one of
his paftorals.

VI. Some critical obfervations in English Ver-
fification.

LETTERS to and from Mr. CROMWELL,

LETTER

From 1708 to 1711.

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I. To Mr. Cromwell.

II. To the fame.

III. To the fame.

IV. Concerning the first publication of the author's

poems.

V. Of his tranflation of the first book of Statius.

-VI. Of his Juvenile Poems.

VII. Criticisms on Statius.

VIII. Of Mr. Wycherley's coldness.

IX. Of the general conduct and inequality of

men's lives.

X. The use of poetical ftudies. A panegyrick

upon dogs.

XI. Of the taste of country gentlemen.

XII.

XIII. After an illness. The obfcurity of a country

life.

XIV. On the fame fubject, Concerning Ron-

deaus.

XV. From

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XV. From Mr. Cromwell. On Priam's Speech

to Pyrrhus in Virgil.

XVI. Answer to the fame.

XVII. Criticisms about an elegy of Ovid.

XVII. On fickness and disappointment.

XIX.

XX. Of Philips's paftorals.

XXI. From Mr. Cromwell. On a paffage in

Lucan.

XXII. Answer to the former, with another criti
cifin on Lucan.

XXIII. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXIV.

XXV. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXVI. Obfervations on Crafhaw's poems.

XXVII. Conce' ning laughter.

XXVIII. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXIX. Of the Study of poetry; Mr. Wycher-

ley, &c.

'XXX. From Mr. Cromwell.