ON

LITERATURE,

TASTE,

AND

COMPOSITION,

ADDRESSED TO HIS SON,

BY GEORGE GREGORY, D. D.

LATE VICAR OF WEST-HAM, DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO
THE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS,
BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS.

Alr

1808.
T. Gillet, Crown-court.

LETTER XXI.

History.—Antient Historians. -Scripture His-

tory. Herodotus. Thucidydes.-Xenophon.

-Polybius. Sallust.-Livy. Tacitus.-Com-

nena.-De Thou.-Davila.-Modern History.

-Buchanan.-Clarendon. -- Rapin. -Lyttle-

ton.-Hume.-Robertson.---Gibbon

LETTER XXII.

Annals.Chronicles. Memoirs. - Biography,

&c.-Froissart.-Holingshead.-Stow.-Ca-

sar.-Princess Anna Comnena.-Alberquer-

que.-Ludlow.-Whitlock. -Burnet. -Dal-

rymple.-Nepos.-Plutarch.-Diogenes Laer-

Bayle.- Dr. Johnson.

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tius. Suetonius.
Biographic Britannica

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LETTER XXIII,

Voyages and Travels.-Anson-Hawkesworth.

Addison.-Burnet.-Lady M. W. Monta-

gue. —Johnson. - Fictitious_Narrative. The

Xenophons.-Cervantes.-Le Sage.-Field-

Smollett. —Sterne. —D'Arblois, Rad--

cliffe.-Swift-De Foe.-Mrs. Hamilton.

Epistolary Writing. Cicero. - Pliày.

neca. Balzac. Voiture. -Pope, &c.-Dia-

logue. Plato. Cicero. Lucian. Horne

Tooke.

ing.

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LETTER XXIV.

XXIV.

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Description and Origin of Poetry.-Metre,-

Rhyme.-English Metres.

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