ADVERTISEMENT to Vol. III. and IV.
CI. Portrait of a genius, and description of his per-
son. Inconveniences and mortifications of
being remarkably low of stature. Instances
of great and wonderful men of that size
CII. On good humour, one of the first requisites in
society
CIII. The greatest virtue sometimes the parent of
the greatest crimes. Story of Frank Leeson
CIV. Letter to the Right Hon. William Beckford
on Mr. Baker's method of curing cows
CV. On the present state of learning. On purity
of style
CVI. Serious considerations on the inefficacy of no-
minal Christianity to promote our future
salvation. Hymn
CVII. Unity of design in the structure of a poem.
Allusion to local circumstances censured.
Poetry being defined to be an universal lan-
guage. Blackmore not inferior in his de-
signs to the poets of antiquity. Remark
on Dryden. Examples of locality, Homer,
Chaucer, Pope
CVIII. Men happier under the dispensations of Pro-
vidence than by their own choice. The
story of Segued and Ali
CIX. The story of Segued and Ali concluded
CX. On genius-Complaints of its paucity ilk
founded, as proceeding from want of culti
vation. Genius to be discovered even in the
dark ages. The land of liberty, the land of
genius. Decay of eloquence and temporary
duration of poetry after the enslavement of
Rome by Augustus. A series of learned
men produced by Greece. Some remarks
on an unfair position in the 127th paper of