Letter L. to EUPHRONIUS:

Upon good fenfe,

Letter LI. to PALEMON:

The author's morning reflections,

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Letter LII. to EUPHRONIUS:

Some pallages in Mr. Pope's tranflation of

the Iliad, compared with the verfions of

Denham, Dryden, Congreve, and Tickel,

249

Letter LIV. to PHIDIPPUS:

The character of Cleanthes,

243

Letter LIII. to ORONTES:

Reflections upon feeing Mr. Pope's house at

Binfield,

277

Letter LV. to EUPHRONIUS:

Concerning weariness of life,

Letter LVI. to TIMOCLEA:

With a fable, in the ftyle of Spenfer,

282

284

288

Letter LVII. to CLYTANDER:

Concerning the ufe of the antient mythology

in modern poetry,

296

Letter

Letter LVIII. to EUPHRONIUS:

Occafioned by the fudden death of a Friend;

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Letter LIX. to HORTENSIUS:

On the delicacy of every author of genius,

with respect to his own performances,

307

Letter LX. to PALEMON:

An account of the author's happiness in his

retirement,

312

Letter LXI. to EUPHRONIUS:

Reflections upon ftyle,

Letter LXII. to ORONTES:

The character of Timoclea,

Letter LXIV. to PHILOTES:

314

Letter LXIII. to the fame :

Concerning the art of verbal criticism; a

Specimen of it applied to an epigram of

Swift,

322

From Tunbridge,

319

328

Letter LXV. to ORONTES:

Concerning delicacy in relieving the diftref-

fed,

330

Letter

Letter LXVI. to CLEORA:

Letter LXVII. to EUPHRONIUS:

On the death and character of the author's

father,

336

Letter LXVIII. to PHILOTES:

Reflections on the moral character of man-

kind,

340

333

Letter LXIX. to the fame:

Concerning the difficulties that attend our fpe-

culative enquiries. Mr. Boyle's modera-

tion inftanced and recommended,

343

Letter LXX. to PALAMEDES:

In disgrace,

349

Letter LXXI. to PHILOTES:

The author's inability to do juftice to the cha-

racter of Eufebes,

353

Letter LXXII. to the fame :

The author's fituation of mind on the loss of

a friend,

356

Letter LXXIII. to PALAMEDES:

On thinking,

359

Letter

Letter LXXIV. to ORONTES:

Reflections on the advantages of converfation:

with a tranflation of the celebrated Dia-

logue concerning the rife and decline of elo-

quence among the Romans,
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LETTERS

LETTERS

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SEVERAL SUBJECTS.

LETTER I.

To CLYTANDER.

Sept. 1739.

I'

ENTIRELY approve of your defign: but whilft I rejoice in the hope of seeing Enthusiasm thus fuccessfully attacked in her strongest and most formidable holds, I would claim your mercy for her in another quarter; and after having expelled her from her religious dominions, let me intreat you to leave her in the undisturbed enjoyment of her civil poffeffions. To own the truth, I look upon enthusiasm in all other points but that of

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religion,