THE

OBSERVER.

BY

R. CUMBERLAND, Esq.

Multorum providus urbes

Et mores hominum inspexit.

HORAT.

A NEW EDITION, IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND CO.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG; J. SHARPE AND SON; ROBINSON AND CO.; G. WALKER;

J. EVANS AND SONS; R. DOBSON; J. JONES; AND J. JOHNSON: ALSO, J. CARFRAE, AND J. SUTHERLAND, EDINBURGH; AND R. GRIFFIN AND CO. GLASGOW.

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CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

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53. Delineation of the life of Tiberius.

54. Review of events in the reign of King Charles the

First. Of the education of a prince.

55. Advantages of a happy talent for discerning times

and seasons.

56. The character of a proud man.

57. Advantages of a great fortune well applied. A

poetic rhapsody in the manner of The Task.

58. The visit to Attalus concluded.

59. Notion that death inay be avoided at will.

60. Meditations on the character of an infidel.

61. Of the morality of Christianity.

62. An argument for the evidence of the Christian reli-

gion.

63. Observations upon the several instances of right

reason in the heathen world.

64. Reasons offered a priori for the necessity of a Me-

diator.

65. Argument of David Levi for the superiority of the

miracles wrought by Moses over those which

the Evangelists record of Christ.

66. Further defence of the miracles objected to by David

Levi.

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67. The origin and progress of poetry.

68. On natural and acquired taste,

69. A delineation of Shakspeare's characters of Macbeth

and Richard. A parallel between him and

Æschylus.

70. The subject continued.

71. Further continuation.

72. Conclusion of the subject.

73. Remarks upon the characters of Falstaff and his

group.

74. Ben Jonson's imitations of Philostratus compared

with the original passages. His satirical glances

at Shakspeare instanced.

75. Review of Ben Jonson's comedy of the Fox.

76. Review of the Samson Agonistes.

77. Comparative review of Rowe's Fair Penitent with

the Fatal Dowry of Massinger.

78. The same continued.

79. Conclusion of the review.

80. Remarks upon Congreve's comedy of the Double

Dealer.

81. Observations on the various sorts of style.

82. Conversation in a coffee-house upon the time passed

compared with the time present.

83. The same concluded.

84. General observations on the social character.

85. Advice to a man of landed property.

86. Author explains the motives of his work and con-

cludes the third volume.

87. Written on the last day of the year 1789. Short

review of the remarkable events within the period

of that year.

88. The history of Nicolas Pedrosa.

89. The history continued.

90. The history concluded.

91. A review of the present state of society in this country.