OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

Page.

Essay I.-On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin .

1

Essay II.-On Milton's Sonnets

17

Essay III.-On going a Journey

33

Essay IV.-On Coffee-house Politicians

55

Essay V..On the Aristocracy of Letters

91

Essay VI.-On Criticism

115

Essay VII.-On great and little Things

145

Essay VIII.-On familiar Style

183

Essay IX.-On Effeminacy of Character

199

Essay X.-Why distant Objects please

217

Essay XI.-On Corporate Bodies

239

Essay XII.- Whether Actors ought to sit in the Boxes 261

Essay XIII.-On the Disadvantages of intellectual

Superiority

279

Essay XIV.-On Patronage and Puffing .

303

Essay XV.-On the Knowledge of Character

335

Essay XVI.—On the Picturesque and Ideal

369

Essay XVII.-On the Fear of Death

381

ERRATA.

Page 221, lines 22, 23, for affairs men, read affairs of men.

272, line 26, for gauntlets, read gauntlet.
276, line 11, for sphere to, read sphere of.
277, line 8, for from, read for.
286, line 9, comma after feel it.
286, lines 14, 15, for and must, read and they must.
301, line 11, for teachers, read thinkers.
330, line 21, for hauled, read hailed.
332, line 9, for invited, read invited out.
358, line 22, omit of.