THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS ;

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

PREFACES

BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL:

BY JAMES FERGUSON, Esq.

Author of the NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, &c. .

A New Edition, in Forty-five Volumes.

VOL. XI.

CONTAINING SPECTATOR, VOL. VI.

London:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE;

AND WILLIAM BLAIR, EDINBURGH.

Priated by W. Jackson, Peterbatough-Court, Fieet-Street, London,

CONTENTS

VOL. VI.

No.

311. LETTER on Fortune-stealers ......... HUGHES.

Remarks on them-on Widows...... ADDISON.

312. On Sorrow-Power of bearing Cala-

mities—Letter on the Prayers of

Clergymen before Sermon ......... STEELE.

313. Comparative Advantages of public

and private Education................ BUDGELL.

314. Letters from a Lover, and Answer-

from John Trott on his Courtship

-Qualification of a Poet-Encor-

ing in the Theatres-Female Edu-

cation .................................. STEELE.'

315. Criticism on Paradise Lost .......... ADDISON.

316. Letters on Idleness—From a Lover UNKNOWN.

317. On waste of time-Journal of a

Citizen ................................. ADDISON.

318. Amours of Escalus, an old Beau ... STEELE.

319. Letters from Dorinda, complaining

of the Spectator's Partiality-From

a Man of Fashion .................. BUDGELL.

320. Court of Inquisition on Maids and

Bachelors--Letter from an Idler... STEELE.

321. Criticism on Paradise Lost ......... ADDISON.

322. Letter from Octavia, complaining of

the Ingratitude of her Husband... STEELE.

323. Clarinda's Journal of a week ........ ADDISON.

324. Account of the Mohock Club-

Letter from a Countryman to his

Mistress ..........

.............. STEELE.