PR

1361

C35

v. 23

ADVENTURER.

No 1—41.

-Tentanda via est; quâ me quoque possim Tollere humo, victorque virúm volitare per ora.

On vent'rous wing in quest of praise I go,
And leave the gazing multitude below.

VIRG.

No.

CONTENTS.

VOL. XXIII.

HISTORICAL and Biographical

Preface.

1. Courage, why honoured as a

Virtue. Adventurer charac-

terized, and his Achieve-

ments projected

2. Intellectual and Corporal La-

bour compared

3. Project for a new Pantomime

Entertainment

4. Of the different kinds of Narra-

tive, and why they are univer-

sally read.

5. Remark on Dreaming. Vari-

ous Transmigrations related

by a Flea

6. Project for an Auction of Ma-

nuscripts, by Timothy Spin-

brain, Author

7. Distress encouraged to hope:

the History of Melissa

8. The History of Melissa con-
cluded.

HAWKESWORTH

BATHURST

HAWKESWORTH

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HAWKESWORTH

9. Impropriety of Signs..

No.

10. Happiness and Misery, how far the

necessary effects of Virtue and

Vice

11. An allegorical Letter from To-Day

12. The Influence of Infidelity upon

Moral Conduct: Story of Opsi-

nous

13. The Story of Opsinous continued

14. The Story of Opsinous concluded

15. The Insolence and Absurdity of Ad-

vertisements by Quacks. Perni-

cious consequences of granting

them Patents

16. Of instructing by Fiction

17. Curiosity necessary to Entertainment

and Knowledge. Story of Mr.

Friendly and his Nephew.

18. Critical Remarks upon Fables.

Fa-

ble of the Dog and Shadow upon a
new plan

19. Proposals to improve the Dramatic

Entertainment of the Animal Co-

medians

20. Imperceptible Deviation to Vice.

Moral Use of Punishment.

Re-

monstrances of Conscience uni-

versal. Amurath, an Eastern

Story

21. Eastern Story continued

22. Eastern Story concluded

23. Scheme of a new Memorandum-

Book for the Use of the Ladies,

with a Specimen

24. A Parallel between an Evening spent

at the Playhouse, and the several

Stages of Life .

HAWKES.

BATHURST

HAWKES.

BATHURST

HAWKES.