Contents of the Seventh Volume.

LETTERS to and from Mr. WYCHERLEY. From the Year 1704 to 1710.

P. I

LETTER

I.

OFF

Mr. Dryden's death: bis moral character: the poets who fucceeded him : the temper of critics.

II. From Mr. Wycherley.

III. Mr. Wycherley's humanity; his encourage-
ment of young writers; concerning the Au-
thor's Paftorals.

IV. From Mr. Wycherley: Anfwer to the former,
V. From the fame.

VI. Some reasons why friendships may be con-
tracted between perfons of unequal years, and
the advantage of fuch friendships.

VII. Against Compliment.

VIII. An account of the duller fort of Country Gentlemen, and Country Life.

IX. From Mr. Wycherley.

X. From Mr. Wycherley. Of the correction of his Poem to Mr. Dryden, and other papers.

XI. Of the fame, a plan for correcting and improving thofe poems.

XII. From Mr. Wycherley.

XIII. On the fame, and further proposals for correct

ing them.

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XIV. From Mr. Wycherley.

XV. More concerning corrections of the poems. XVI. From Mr. Wycherley, after bis illness. XVII. From Mr. Wycherley.

XVIII. From Mr. Wycherley. Concerning the Mifcellanies and the Critics.

XIX. Concerning Mifcellanies, and the danger of young poets.

XX. From Mr. Wycherley. XXI From Mr. Wycherley.

XXII. From Mr. Wycherley. His defire of his company; and request to proceed in correcting kis papers.

XXIII. More about the poems.

XXIV. Corrections fent.

XXV. From Mr. Wycherley.

In answer to the ac

count of the state of his papers.

XXVI. The last advice about his papers, to turn them into felett Maxims and Reflections, which Mr. Wycherley agreed to and begun before his death.

LETTERS to and from Mr. WALSH.

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From 1705 to 1707.

p. 42

I. Mr. Walsh to Mr. Wycherley. II. Mr. Walsh to Mr. Pope. ftoral and paftoral comedy.

Concerning pa

III. The anfwer. Of correcting, and the extreme of it. Of paftoral comedy, and its

character.

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character. Of the liberty of borrowing from

the ancients.

IV. From Mr. Walsh. On the fame fubjects.
V. From Mr. Walsh. Of mechanical critics;
of wit and conceit, a request concerning one of
his paftorals.

VI. Some critical afervations in English Ver-
fification.

LETTERS to and from Mr. CROMWELL.

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From 1708 to 1711.

P. 54

I. To Mr. Cromwell.

II. To the fame.

III. To the fame.

IV. Concerning the first publication of the author's
poems.

V. Of his tranflation of the first book of Statius.
VI. Of his Juvenile Poems.

VII. Criticisms on Statius.

VIII. Of Mr. Wycherley's coldness.

IX. Of the general conduct and inequality of

men's lives.

X. The use of poetical ftudies. A panegyrick upon dogs.

XI. Of the taste of country gentlemen.

XII.

XIII. After an illness. The obfcurity of a country Life.

XIV. On the fame subject. Concerning Ron

deaus.

XV. From

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XV. From Mr. Cromwell. On Priam's Speech to Pyrrhus in Virgil.

XVI. Answer to the fame.

XVII. Criticifms about an elegy of Ovid. XVIII. On fickness and disappointment.

XIX.

XX. Of Philips's paftorals.

XXI. From Mr. Cromwell. On a paffage in

Lucan.

XXII. Answer to the former, with another criti cifm on Lucan.

XXIII. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXIV.

XXV. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXVI. Obfervations on Crafhaw's poems.

XXVII. Concerning laughter.

XXVIII. From Mr. Cromwell.

XXIX. Of the study of poetry; Mr. Wycherley, &c.

XXX. From Mr. Cromwell.

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VIII. To the fame.

IX.

X.

XI. To Mrs. on the Earl of Oxford's

Behaviour, apprehenfions of commotions,

army in Hyde-Park.

XII. Praife of a country life.

XIII.

XIV.

Concern for the

feparation of friends. The comforts of in-

tegrity and independency.

XV. Defcription of a journey to Oxford, and

manner of life there.

XVI. Of a lady's fickness.

XVII. Witty letters under valued in comparison of

fincere ones.

XVIII. On the fame fubject, to the Hon. Mrs. H.

XIX. To an unfortunate lady.

XX. To a lady abroad.

XXI. To the fame.

XXII. To the fame.

XXIII. To Mrs. Arabella Fermor on her mar-
riage.

LETTERS to and from Sir WILLIAM TRUMBULL.

LETTER

From 1705 to 1716.

P. 150

I. From Sir William Trumbull. On occafion

of Milton's Juvenilia, encouraging the au-

thor to publifh his.

II. From