Chapter II: Part 2

In _Pamela_, in particular, we owe All to her _Lowness_. It is to
the docile Effects of this Lowness of _that amiable Girl_, in her
Birth, her Condition, her Hopes, and her Vanities, in every thing,
in short, but her _Virtue_,---that her Readers are indebted, for the
moral _Reward_, of that _Virtue_. And if we are to look for the
_Low_ among the Rest of the Servants, less lovely tho' they are,
than a _Pamela_, there is something however, so glowingly painted,
in the Lines whereby the Author has mark'd their
Distinctions----Something, so movingly forceful, in the _Grief_ at
their _Parting_, and _Joy_ at the happy Return,---Something so
finely, at once, and so strongly and feelingly, _varied_, even in
the smallest and least promising, little Family Incidents! that I
need only appeal from the _Heads_, to the _Hearts_ of the Objectors
themselves, whether these are _low_ Scenes to be censur'd?

And as for the opposite Extreme they wou'd quarrel with, the
high-passion'd, and un-tam'd Lady _Davers_,---I cou'd direct 'em to
a Dozen or two of _Quality Originals_, from whom (with Exception
perhaps of her _Wit_) one wou'd swear the Author had taken her
Copy.---What a Sum might these Objectors ensure, to be paid, by the
_Husbands_ and _Sons_, of such termagant, hermaphrodite Minds, upon
their making due Proof, that they were no longer to be found, in the
Kingdom!

I know, you are too just to imagine me capable of giving any other
Opinion than my best-weigh'd and true one. But, because it is fit
you should have _Reasons_, in Support of a Judgment that can neither
deserve nor expect an implicit Reception, I will run over the
Anonymous Letter I herewith return you; and note with what Lightness
even Men of _good-natur'd_ Intention fall into _Mistakes_, by
Neglect in too hasty Perusals, which their Benevolence wou'd take
Pleasure in blushing at, when they discover their Weakness, in a
cooler Revisal.

The Writer of this Letter is for having the Style _rais'd_, after
_Pamela_'s Advance in her Fortune. But surely, This was hasty
Advice: because, as the Letters are writ to her Parents, it wou'd
have look'd like forgetting, and, in some sort, insulting, the
Lowliness of their inferior Condition, to have assum'd a new Air in
her Language, in Place of retaining a steady Humility. But, here, it
must not be pass'd unobserv'd, that in her Reports of Conversations
that follow'd her Marriage, she _does_, aptly and beautifully,
heighten her Style, and her Phrases: still returning however to her
decent Simplicity, in her Addresses to her Father and Mother.

I am against giving a Gentleman (who has ennobled himself, by
reforming his Vices, and rewarding the Worth of the _Friendless_)
the unnecessary new Toy of a _Title_. It is all strong in Nature, as
it stands in the Letters: and I don't see how Greatness, from
Titles, can add Likeness or Power, to the Passions. So complete a
Resemblance of _Truth_ stands in need of no borrow'd Pretensions.

The Only of this Writer's Objections, which, I think, carries
Weight, is That, which advises some little _Contraction_ of the
Prayers, and Appeals to the Deity. I say _little_ Contraction: for
they are nobly and sincerely pathetic. And I say it only in Fear,
lest, if fansied too long, by the fashionably _Averse_ to the
Subject, Minds, which most want the _purpos'd Impression_, might
hazard the _Loss_ of its _Benefit_, by passing over those pious
Reflections, which, if shorter, would catch their Attention.

Certainly, the Gentleman's Objection against the Persecution that
_Pamela_ suffers from lady _Davers_, in respect to the Relation this
Madwoman bears to the _Brother_, is the [4th & 5th, change 5.]
{rashest} of All his Advices! And when he thinks she ought rather to
have assum'd the Protection of her Servants, he seems unaware of the
probable _Consequence_; where there was a Puppy, of Quality, in the
Case, who had, even without Provocation, drawn his Sword on the poor
passive PAMELA. Far from bearing a Thought of exciting an abler
Resentment, to the Danger of a Quarrel with so worthless a Coxcomb,
how charmingly natural, apprehensive, and generous, is her Silence
(during the Recital she makes of her Sufferings) with regard to this
_masculine_ Part of the Insult! as also her Prevention of Mrs.
_Jewkes_'s less delicate Bluntness, when she was beginning to
complain of the whelp Lord's Impertinence!

If I were not afraid of a _Pun_, I shou'd tell the anonymous
Letter-writer, that he made a too _tight-laced_ Objection, where he
quarrels with the spann'd Waist of _Pamela_. What, in the Name of
Unshapeliness! cou'd he find, to complain of, in a beautiful Girl of
Sixteen, who was born _out of Germany_, and had not, yet, reach'd
ungraspable _Roundness_!----These are wonderful Sinkings from
Purpose, where a Man is considering such mental, and passionate
Beauties, as this Gentleman profess'd to be touch'd by!

But, when he goes on, to object against the Word _naughty_, (as
apply'd in the Phrase _naughty Master_) [4th, change 6.] {I grow
mortified, in Fear for our human Sufficiency, compar'd with our
Aptness to blunder! For, here, 'tis plain, this Director of
Another's Discernment is quite blind, Himself, to an Elegance,} one
wou'd have thought it _impossible_ not to be struck by?---Faulty,
wicked, abominable, scandalous, (which are the angry Adjectives, he
prefers to that sweet one) wou'd have carried Marks of her Rage, not
Affliction--whereas _naughty_ contains, in One single significant
Petulance, [5th: "a Variety of"] {twenty thousand} inexpressible
Delicacies!---It insinuates, at once, all the beautiful Struggle,
between her Contempt of his Purpose, and tender Regard for his
Person; her Gratitude to Himself and his Family; her Recollection of
his superior Condition.--There is in the elegant Choice of this
half-kind, half-peevish, _Word_, a never-enough to be prais'd
speaking Picture of the Conflict betwixt her Disdain, and her
Reverence! [_del._ 4th] {See, Sir, the Reason I had, for
apprehending some Danger that the refin'd Generosity in many of the
most charming of the Sentiments wou'd be _lost_, upon the too coarse
Conception of some, for whose Use the Author intended them.}

It is the same Case again, in _foolish Thing that I am!_ which this
nice, [_del._ 4th] {un-nice,} Gentleman wou'd advise you to change,
into _foolish that I am!_ He does not seem to have tasted the pretty
Contempt of Herself, the submissive _Diminutive_, so distant from
Vanity, yet allayed by the gentle Reluctance in Self-condemnation
[_del._ 4th] {;---and the other fine Touches of Nature: which wou'd
All have been lost, in the grave, sober Sound of his _Dutch
Emendation_.}

[_del._ 4th]

{As to his Paragraph in _Postscript_, I shall say the less of it,
because the Gentleman's own good Sense seems to confess, by the
Place he has chosen to rank it in, that it ought to be turn'd out of
Doors, as too _dirty_ for the rest of his Letter.----} [4th,
change 7.] In the Occasions {he} is pleas'd to discover for _Jokes_,
I either find not, that he has any Signification at all, or {such
vulgar,} coarse-tasted Allusions to loose low-life Idioms, [_ins._]
that _not_ to understand what {he means,} is both the cleanliest,
and prudentest Way of confuting {him}.

And now, Sir, you will easily gather how far I am from thinking it
needful to change any thing in _Pamela_. I would not scratch such a
beautiful Face, for the _Indies_!

[_del._ 8th]

{You can hardly imagine how it charms me to hear of a Second Edition
already! but the News of still new upon new ones, will be found no
Subject of Wonder. As 'tis sure, that no Family is without Sisters,
or Brothers, or Daughters, or Sons, who can _read_; or wants
Fathers, or Mothers, or Friends, who can _think_; so equally certain
it is, that the Train to a Parcel of Powder does not run on with
more natural Tendency, till it sets the whole Heap in a Blaze, than
that _Pamela_, inchanting from Family to Family, will overspread all
the Hearts of the Kingdom.}

As to the Objection of those warm Friends to _Honesty_, who are for
having _Pamela_ dismiss Mrs. _Jewkes_; there is not One, among All
these benevolent Complainers, who wou'd not discern himself to have
been, _laudably_, in the _wrong_, were he only to be ask'd this
plain Question---Whether a Step, both ill-judg'd, and undutiful, had
not been the Reverse of a PAMELA's Character?---Two or three times
over, Mr. _B----_ had inform'd her, that Mrs. _Jewkes_ and Himself
having been equally involv'd in _One Guilt_, she must forgive, or
condemn, _Both together_. After this, it grew manifest _Duty_ not to
treat her with Marks of Resentment.---And, as here was a visible
Necessity to appear not desirous of turning her away, so, in point
of mere _Moral_ Regard to the bad Woman Herself, it was nobler, to
retain her, with a Prospect of correcting, in Time, her loose Habit
of thinking, than, by casting her off, to the licentious Results of
her Temper, abandon her to Temptations and Danger, which a Virtue
like PAMELA's cou'd not wish her expos'd to.

[_del._ 5th]

{_The Manner in which this admirable Gentleman gives his Opinion of the Piece, and runs thro' the principal Characters, is so masterly, that the Readers of _Pamela_ will be charm'd by it, tho' they should suppose, that his inimitable Benevolence has over-valu'd the Piece itself._}

Inspir'd, without doubt, by some Skill, more than human, and
comprehending in an humble, and seemingly artless, Narration,
a Force that can tear up the Heart-strings, this Author has prepar'd
an enamouring _Philtre_ for the Mind, which will excite such a
_Passion_ for Virtue, as scarce to leave it in the Power of the
_Will_ to neglect her.

_Longinus_, I remember, distinguishing by what Marks we may know the
_Sublime_, says, it is chiefly from an Effect that will follow the
Reading it: a delightfully-adhering Idea, that clings fast to the
Memory; and from which it is difficult for a Man to disengage his
Attention.---If _this_ is a Proof of the _Sublime_, there was never
_Sublimity_ so lastingly felt, as in PAMELA!

Not the Charmer's own prattling Idea stuck so close to the Heart of
her Master, as the Incidents of her Story to the Thoughts of a
Reader.---The Author transports, and transforms, with a Power more
extensive than _Horace_ requires, in his POET!---

Mr. _B----_, and the Turns of his Passions---and the Softness, yet
Strength, of their amiable Object---after having given us the most
masterly Image of Nature, that ever was painted! take Possession of,
and _dwell in_, the Memory.

And there, too, broods the kind and the credulous Parson WILLIAMS's
_Dove_, (without _serpentine_ Mixture) hatching _Pity_ and
_Affection_, [4th, change 8.] {for an Honesty so sincere, and so
silly!}

There too, take their Places All the _lower_ Supports of this
beautiful Fabrick.---

I am sometimes transform'd into plain Goodman ANDREWS, and sometimes
the good Woman, his Wife.

As for old Mr. LONGMAN, and JONATHAN, the Butler, they are sure of
me both, in their Turns.

Now and-then, I am COLBRAND the _Swiss_: but, as _broad_ as _I
stride_, in that Character, I can never escape Mrs. JEWKES: who
often keeps me awake in the Night---

Till the Ghost of Lady DAVERS, drawing open the Curtains, scares the
_Scarer_, of me, and of PAMELA!---

And, then, I take Shelter with poor penitent JOHN, and the rest of
the _Men_ and the _Maids_, of all whom I may say, with compassionate
_Marcia_,

--------_The Youths DIVIDE their Reader._

[5th & 8th, change 9.]

{_And this fine Writer adds:_}

I am glad I made War, in my last, upon the Notion of altering the
Style: for, having read it twice over since then, (and to Audiences,
where the _Tears_ were applausively eloquent) I could hardly, here
and there, find a Place, where one Word _can_ be chang'd for a
better. There are some indeed, where 'twere _possible_ to leave out,
a few, without making a Breach in the Building. But, in short, the
Author has put so bewitching a Mixture together, of the _Rais'd_
with the _Natural_, and the _Soft_ with the _Strong_ and the
_Eloquent_---thatnever Sentiments were finer, and fuller of Life!
never any were utter'd so sweetly!---Even in what relates to the
pious and frequent Addresses to God, I now retract (on these two
last Revisals) the Consent I half gave, on a _former_, to the
anonymous Writer's Proposal, who advis'd the Author to _shorten_
those Beauties.----Whoever considers his _Pamela_ with a View to
find Matter for Censure, is in the Condition of a passionate Lover,
who breaks in upon his Mistress, without Fear or Wit, with Intent to
accuse her, and quarrel---He came to her with Pique in his Purpose;
but his _Heart_ is too hard for his _Malice_---and he goes away more
enslav'd, for complaining.

[_del._ 5th]

{_The following delightful Story, so admirably related, will give great Pleasure to the Reader; and we take the Liberty of inserting it, for that very Reason._}

[_del._ 8th]

{What a never-to-be satisfied _Length_ has this Subject always the
Power of attracting me into! And yet, before I have done, I must by
your means tell the Author a _Story_, which a Judge not so skilful
in Nature as he is, might be in Danger perhaps of mistaking, for a
trifling and silly one. I expect it shou'd give him the clearest
Conviction, in a Case he is subject to question.}

[_del._ 8th]

{We have a lively little Boy in the Family, about seven Years
old---but, alas for him, poor Child! quite unfriended; and born to
no Prospect. He is the Son of an honest, poor Soldier, by a Wife,
grave, unmeaning, and innocent. Yet the Boy, (see the Power of
connubial _Simplicity_) is so pretty, so genteel, and gay-spirited,
that we have made him, and design'd him, our _own_, ever since he
could totter, and waddle. The wanton Rogue is half Air: and every
Motion he acts by has a Spring, like _Pamela_'s when she threw down
the Card-table. All this Quickness, however, is temper'd by a
good-natur'd Modesty: so that the wildest of his Flights are thought
rather diverting than troublesome. He is an hourly Foundation for
Laughter, from the Top of the House to the Parlours: and, to borrow
an Attribute from the Reverend Mr. _Peters_, (tho' without any Note
of his Musick) _plays a very good_ FIDDLE in the Family. I have told
you the History of this _Tom-tit_ of a Prater, because, ever since
my first reading of PAMELA, he puts in for a Right to be _one_ of
her Hearers; and, having got half her Sayings by heart, talks in no
other Language but hers: and, what really surprises, and has charm'd
me into a _certain_ Fore-taste of her Influence, he is, at once,
become fond of his Book; which (before) he cou'd never be brought to
attend to---that _he may read_ PAMELA, he says, _without stopping_.
The first Discovery we made of this Power over so unripe and unfix'd
an Attention, was, one Evening, when I was reading her Reflections
at the _Pond_ to some Company. The little rampant Intruder, being
kept out by the Extent of the Circle, had crept under my Chair, and
was sitting before me, on the Carpet, with his Head almost touching
the Book, and his Face bowing down toward the Fire.---He had sat for
some time in this Posture, with a Stillness, that made us conclude
him asleep: when, on a sudden, we heard a Succession of
heart-heaving Sobs; which while he strove to conceal from our
Notice, his little Sides swell'd, as if they wou'd burst, with the
throbbing Restraint of his Sorrow. I turn'd his innocent Face, to
look toward me; but his Eyes were quite lost, in his _Tears_: which
running down from his Cheeks in free Currents, had form'd two
sincere little Fountains, on that Part of the Carpet he hung over.
All the Ladies in Company were ready to devour him with Kisses: and
he has, since, become doubly a Favourite---and is perhaps the
youngest of _Pamela's Converts_.}

_The same [_del._ 5th] {incomparable} Writer has favour'd us with an Objection, [_del._ 5th] {that is more material than any we have mention'd;} which cannot be better stated nor answer'd, than in his own [_del._ 8th] {beautiful} Words; viz._

An Objection is come into my Thoughts, which I should be glad the
Author would think proper to obviate in the Front of the Second
Edition.

There are Mothers, or Grandmothers, in all Families of affluent
Fortune, who, tho' they may have none of Lady _Davers_'s
_Insolence_, will be apt to feel one of her _Fears_,---that the
Example of a Gentleman so amiable as Mr. B--- may be follow'd, by
the _Jackies, their Sons_, with too blind and unreflecting a
Readiness. Nor does the Answer of that Gentleman to his Sister's
Reproach come quite up to the Point they will rest on. For, tho'
indeed it is true, all the World wou'd acquit the best Gentleman in
it, if he married _such_ a Waiting-maid as _Pamela_, yet, there is
an ill-discerning Partiality, in Passion, that will overthrow all
the Force of that Argument: because _every belov'd Maid will be
PAMELA_, in a Judgment obscur'd by her Influence.

And, since the Ground of this Fear will _seem_ solid, I don't know
how to be easy, till it is shewn (nor ought it to be left to the
Author's Modesty) that they who consider his Design in that Light
will be found but short-sighted Observers.

Request it of him then to suffer it to be told them, that not a
limited, but general, Excitement to Virtue was the first and great
End to his Story: And that this Excitement must have been deficient,
and very imperfectly offer'd, if he had not look'd quite _as low as
he cou'd_ for his Example: because if there had been any Degree or
Condition, more remote from the Prospect than that which he had
chosen to work on, that Degree might have seem'd out of Reach of the
Hope, which it was his generous Purpose to encourage.---And, so, he
was under an evident _Necessity_ to find such a Jewel in a
_Cottage_: and expos'd, too, as she was, to the severest Distresses
of Fortune, with Parents unable to support their own Lives, but from
the daily hard Product of _Labour_.

Nor wou'd it have been sufficient to have plac'd her thus _low_ and
_distressful_, if he had not also suppos'd her a _Servant_: and that
too in some elegant Family; for if she had always remain'd a
Fellow-cottager with her Father, it must have carried an Air of
Romantick Improbability to account for her polite Education.

If she had _wanted_ those Improvements, which she found means to
acquire in her _Service_, it wou'd have been very unlikely, that she
shou'd have succeeded so well; and had destroy'd _one_ great _Use_
of the Story, to have allow'd such uncommon Felicity to the Effect
of mere _personal Beauty_.---And it had not been _judicious_ to have
represented her as educated in a superior Condition of Life with the
proper Accomplishments, before she became reduc'd by Misfortunes,
and so not a Servant, but rather an Orphan under hopeless
Distresses---because Opportunities which had made it no Wonder how
she came to be so winningly qualified, wou'd have lessen'd her Merit
in being so. And besides, where had then been the purpos'd
Excitement of Persons in PAMELA's Condition of Life, by an Emulation
of her Sweetness, Humility, Modesty, Patience, and Industry, to
attain some faint Hope of arriving, in time, within View of _her_
Happiness?----And what a delightful Reformation shou'd we see, in
all Families, where the Vanity of their _Maids_ took no Turn toward
Ambition to _please_, but by such innocent Measures, as PAMELA's!

As it is clear, then, the Author was under a Necessity to suppose
her a _Servant_, he is not to be accountable for mistaken
Impressions, which the Charms he has given her may happen to make,
on wrong Heads, or weak Hearts, tho' in Favour of Maids the Reverse
of her Likeness.

What is it then (they may say) that the Lowness, and Distance of
_Pamela's_ Condition from the Gentleman's who married her, proposes
to teach the _Gay World_, and the _Fortunate_?---_It is this_---By
Comparison with that infinite Remoteness of her Condition from the
Reward which her Virtue procur'd her, one great _Proof_ is deriv'd,
(which is Part of the _Moral_ of PAMELA) that Advantages from
_Birth_, and Distinction of _Fortune_, have no Power at all, when
consider'd against those from _Behaviour_, and Temper of _Mind_:
because where the _Last_ are _not added_, all the _First_ will be
boasted in vain. Whereas she who possesses the Last finds _no Want_
of the First, in her Influence.

In _that_ Light alone let the Ladies of _Rank_ look at
PAMELA.---Such an alarming Reflection as that will, at the same time
that it raises the Hope and Ambition of the _Humble_, correct and
mortify the Disdain of the _Proud_. For it will compel them to
observe, and acknowledge, that 'tis the Turn of their _Mind_, not
the Claims of their _Quality_, by which (and which only) Womens
Charms can be lasting: And that, while the _haughty Expectations_,
inseparable from an elevated Rank, serve but to multiply its
Complaints and Afflictions, the Condescensions of _accomplish'd
Humility_, attracting Pity, Affection, and Reverence, secure an
hourly Increase of Felicity.---So that the _moral Meaning_ of
PAMELA's Good-fortune, far from tempting young Gentlemen to marry
_such_ Maids as are found in their Families, is, by teaching Maids
to _deserve to be Mistresses_, to stir up Mistresses _to support
their Distinction_.

[_del._ 4th]

{_We shall only add, That it was intended to prefix two neat _Frontispieces_ to this Edition, (and to present them to the Purchasers of the first) and one was actually finished for that Purpose; but there not being Time for the other, from the Demand for the new Impression; and the Engraving Part of that which was done (tho' no Expence was spared) having fallen very short of the Spirit of the Passages they were intended to represent, the Proprietors were advised to lay them aside. And were the rather induced to do so, from the following Observation of a most ingenious Gentleman, in a Letter to the Editor._ "I am so jealous, _says he,_ in Behalf of our _inward_ Idea of PAMELA's _Person_, that I dread _any_ figur'd Pretence to Resemblance. For it will be pity to look at an _Air_, and imagine it _Hers_, that does not carry some such elegant Perfection of Amiableness, as will be sure to find place in the _Fancy_."}

VERSES, sent to the Bookseller, for the Unknown Author [_del._ 8th] {of the beautiful new Piece call'd} _PAMELA_.

Blest be thy pow'rful Pen, whoe'er thou art,
Thou skill'd, great _Moulder_ of the master'd Heart!
Where hast thou lain conceal'd!---or why thought fit,
At this dire Period, to _unveil_ thy Wit?
O! late befriended Isle! had this broad Blaze,
With earlier Beamings, bless'd our _Fathers_ Days,
The Pilot Radiance, pointing out the Source,
Whence public Health derives its [5th: "moral"] {vital} Course,
Each timely Draught some healing Power had shown,
Ere gen'ral _Gangrene_ blacken'd, to the _Bone_.
But, fest'ring now, beyond all Sense of Pain,
'Tis hopeless: and the Helper's Hand is _vain_.
Sweet _Pamela_! forever-blooming Maid!
Thou dear, unliving, yet immortal, Shade!
Why are thy Virtues scatter'd to the Wind?
Why are thy Beauties flash'd upon the Blind?
What, tho' thy flutt'ring Sex might learn, from thee,
That _Merit_ forms a Rank, above _Degree_?
That Pride, too conscious, falls, from ev'ry _Claim_,
While humble Sweetness climbs, beyond its _Aim_?
What, tho' Religion, smiling from thy Eyes,
Shews her _plain_ Power, and charms without _Disguise_?
What, tho' thy warmly-pleasing moral Scheme
Gives livelier Rapture, than the Loose can _dream_?
What, tho' thou build'st, by thy persuasive Life,
Maid, Child, Friend, Mistress, Mother, Neighbour, Wife?
Tho' Taste like thine each Void of Time, can fill,
Unsunk by Spleen, unquicken'd by Quadrille!
What, tho' 'tis thine to bless the lengthen'd Hour!
Give _Permanence_ to Joy, and _Use_ to Pow'r?
Lend late-felt Blushes to the _Vain_ and _Smart_?
And squeeze cramp'd Pity from the _Miser_'s Heart?
What, tho' 'tis thine to hush the Marriage Breeze,
Teach Liberty to _tire_, and Chains to _please_?
Thine tho', from Stiffness to divest Restraint,
And, to the Charmer, reconcile the _Saint_?
Tho' Smiles and Tears obey thy moving Skill,
And Passion's ruffled Empire waits thy Will?
Tho' thine the fansy'd Fields of flow'ry Wit,
Thine, Art's whole Pow'r, in Nature's Language writ!
Thine, to convey strong Thought, with modest Ease,
And, copying _Converse_, teach its _Style_ to please?
Tho' thine each Virtue, that a _God_ cou'd lend?
Thine, ev'ry Help, that ev'ry Heart, can mend?
'Tis Thine _in vain_!----Thou wak'st a _dying_ Land;
And lift'st _departed Hope_, with fruitless Hand:
Death has NO CURE. Thou hast _mis-tim'd_ thy Aim;
_Rome_ had her GOTHS: and all, beyond, was _Shame_.

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JOHN BAILLIE: _An Essay on the Sublime_ (1747). Introduction by
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Contemporaries of the _Tatler_ and _Spectator_. Introduction by
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_John Dart and George Ogle on Chaucer._ Introduction by William L.
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JOHN T. DESAGULIERS: _The Newtonian System of the World the Best Model
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_Sale Catalogue of Mrs. Piozzi's Effects_ (1816). Introduction by
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M. C. SARBIEWSKI: _The Odes of Casimire_ (1646). Introduction by
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_Selections from Seventeenth-Century Songs._ Introduction by
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_A Sermon Preached at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul_ (1745).
[Probably by Samuel Johnson]. Introduction by James L. Clifford. [*]

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FIRST YEAR (1946-1947)

Numbers 1-6 out of print.

[Titles:
1. Richard Blackmore's _Essay upon Wit_ (1716), and Addison's
_Freeholder_ No. 45 (1716). [13484]
2. Anon., _Essay on Wit_ (1748), together with Characters by
Flecknoe, and Joseph Warton's _Adventurer_ Nos. 127 and 133.
[14973]
3. Anon., _Letter to A. H. Esq.; concerning the Stage_ (1698), and
Richard Willis' _Occasional Paper_ No. IX (1698). [14047]
4. Samuel Cobb's _Of Poetry_ and _Discourse on Criticism_ (1707).
[14528]
5. Samuel Wesley's _Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry_ (1700)
and _Essay on Heroic Poetry_ (1693). [16506]
6. Anon., _Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage_
(1704) and anon., _Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage_ (1704).
[15656] ]

SECOND YEAR (1947-1948)

7. John Gay's _The Present State of Wit_ (1711); and a section on Wit
from _The English Theophrastus_ (1702). [14800]

8. Rapin's _De Carmine Pastorali_, translated by Creech (1684). [14495]

9. T. Hanmer's (?) _Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet_ (1736).
[14899]

10. Corbyn Morris' _Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit,
etc._ (1744). [16233]

11. Thomas Purney's _Discourse on the Pastoral_ (1717). [15313]

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood
Krutch. [16335]

THIRD YEAR (1948-1949)

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), _The Theatre_ (1720). [15999]

14. Edward Moore's _The Gamester_ (1753). [16267]

15. John Oldmixon's _Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley_
(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's _The British Academy_ (1712).
[In preparation]

16. Nevil Payne's _Fatal Jealousy_ (1673). [16916]

17. Nicholas Rowe's _Some Account of the Life of Mr. William
Shakespeare_ (1709). [16275]

18. "Of Genius," in _The Occasional Paper_, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719);
and Aaron Hill's Preface to _The Creation_ (1720). [15870]

FOURTH YEAR (1949-1950)

19. Susanna Centlivre's _The Busie Body_ (1709). [16740]

20. Lewis Theobold's _Preface to The Works of Shakespeare_ (1734).
[16346]

21. _Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela_
(1754).

22. Samuel Johnson's _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ (1749) and Two
_Rambler_ papers (1750). [13350]

23. John Dryden's _His Majesties Declaration Defended_ (1681). [15074]

24. Pierre Nicole's _An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from
Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting
Epigrams_, translated by J. V. Cunningham.

FIFTH YEAR (1950-1951)

25. Thomas Baker's _The Fine Lady's Airs_ (1709). [14467]

26. Charles Macklin's _The Man of the World_ (1792). [14463]

27. Frances Reynolds' _An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste,
and of the Origin of Our Ideas of Beauty, etc._ (1785). [13485]

28. John Evelyn's _An Apologie for the Royal Party_ (1659); and
_A Panegyric to Charles the Second_ (1661). [17833]

29. Daniel Defoe's _A Vindication of the Press_ (1718). [14084]

30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's _Letters Concerning
Taste_, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's _Miscellanies_ (1770).
[13464]

SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)

31. Thomas Gray's _An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard_ (1751);
and _The Eton College Manuscript_. [15409]

32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudery's Preface to _Ibrahim_
(1674), etc. [14525]

33. Henry Gally's _A Critical Essay_ on Characteristic-Writings (1725).
[16299]

34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).

35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. _Critical
Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch_
(1763). [15857]

36. Joseph Harris's _The City Bride_ (1696). [22974]

SEVENTH YEAR (1952-1953)

37. Thomas Morrison's _A Pindarick Ode on Painting_ (1767). [In
preparation]

38. John Phillips' _A Satyr Against Hypocrites_ (1655).

39. Thomas Warton's _A History of English Poetry_.

40. Edward Bysshe's _The Art of English Poetry_ (1708).

41. Bernard Mandeville's "_A Letter to Dion_" (1732).

42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.

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Errata (noted by transcriber):

deserves not only Acknowlegdment, but ...
[_text unchanged: error for "Acknowledgment"?_]
... for the Unknown Author [_del._ 8th] {of the beautiful new Piece
call'd} _PAMELA_
[_text unchanged, but "of" probably belongs outside the hand-drawn
brackets_]
Maren-Sofie Roestvig
[_spelling shown as printed, but correct form is "Rostvig"
(o-slash, 28th letter of Norwegian alphabet)_]