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, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street, London,

SPECTATOR.

N° 311-380.

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

322. Letter from Octavia, complaining of

the Ingratitude of her Husband... STEELE.

323. Clarinda's Journal of a week

324. Account of the Mohock Club-

Letter from a Countryman to his

Mistress

ADDISON.

ADDISON.

STEELE.