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.

Prioted by W. Jackson, Peterborough Court, Fleet-streal, London.

CONTENTS:

VOL. IV.

No.

145. COMPlaint against the Oglers-Angel

at the Royal Exchange .............. STEELE
146. Various Cases of Complainers-Dream

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

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-Tbree Letters of

Pliny to his Wife-Passage from Milton steele

150. Matrimonial Quarrels-Characters of an

Affectionate Couple .....

151. Effects of a general Mourning-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.