THE

BRITISH ESSAYISTS;

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

PREFACES

BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND CRITICAL:

BY JAMES FERGUSON, Esq.

Author of the NEW BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, &c.

PRINTED FOR THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE;

AND WILLIAM BLAIR, EDINBURGH.

Printed by W. Jackson, Peterborough-Court, Fleet Street, London.

SPECTATOR.

No 62–131.

CONTENTS.

VOL. 11.

62. DIFFERENCE between True and

False Wit-Mixt Wit............... ADDISON.

63. Allegory of several Schemes of Wit

64. On Public Mournings.................. STEELE.

65. Characters of Sir Fopling Flutter,

Dorimant, and Harriett ............

66. Letter on Fashionable Education ... HUGHES.

Errors in the Common Modes ....... STEELE.

67. Dancing—the Dangers of it—Coun-

try Dances—Exhibition of Pic-

tures ................

............... BUDGELL,

68. On Friendship............................ ADDISON.

69. Visit to the Royal Exchange-

Benefit of Extensive Commerce...

70. Critique on the Ballad of Chevy-

Chase ...........

71. Love-Love-Letter of James to

Betty.................................... STEELE.

72. "Account of the Everlasting Club ... ADDISON.

73. Passion for Fame and Praise-Cha-

racter of the Idols ..................

74. Continuation of the Critique on

Chevy-Chase ........................

75. Idea of a Fine Gentleman-Cha-

racters of Vocifer and Ignotus ... Steele,