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. IV.

CONTAINING TATLER, VOL. IV.

London:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE ;

AND WILLIAM BLAIR, EDINBURGH.

· 1819.

Printed by W. Jackson, Peterborough Court, Fleet-street, London.

TATLER.

N° 145–209.

CONTENTS

VOL. IV.

STEELE

ADDISON

No.
145. COMPLAINT against the Oglers-Angel

at the Royal Exchange

146. Various Cases of Complainers-Dream

of Jupiter and the Destinies .........

147. Juno's Method to regain Jupiter's Affec-

tion: ADDISON-Trial of Wine

STEELE

148. On the Diet of the Metropolis-Perni-

cious Dishes-False Delicacies

ADDISON

149. Ill-natured Husbands-Three Letters of

Pliny to his Wife-Passage from Milton steELE
150. Matrimonial Quarrels—Characters of an

Affectionate Couple

151. Effects of a general Mourniog-Passion

for gay and showy Dress

152. Homer's Description of a future State .. ADDISON
153. Characters in Conversation described as

Instruments of Music.....

154. Virgil's Allegory and Ideas of a future

State

155. Character of the Upholsterer-A great

Politician ....

156. Visit of Telemachus to the other World

157. Account of a Female Concert-Matches

proposed between the Music of both

Sexes..

158. Peilantry of Tom Folio, the Book-broker

159. Vindication of Marriage against the Wits

-Passages from Cicero's Letters..... STEELE

160. A Visit and Letter from the Upholsterer:

ADDISON—Letter from a Coquette, and

from Tom Folio....

161. Dream of the Region of Liberty.

........ ADDISON

YOL. IV.

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