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WORKS

PRINTED FOR BELL & BRADFUTE, JAMES M'CLIEBH, AND

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD ;
GILBERT & HODGES, DUBLIN ; AND S. CAMPBELL,

NEW YORK.

TILDEN LIBRARA

1895

G, Caw, Printer,

Edinburgh

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DIFFICULTY of the first address. Practice of

the epic poets. Convenience of periodical

performances
% The necessity and danger of looking into futurity.

Writers naturally sanguine. Their hopes liable

to disappointment

3 An allegory on criticism

4 The modern form of romances preferable to the

ancient. The necessity of characters morally

good

5 A meditation on the Spring

6 Happiness not local

7 Retirement natural to a great mind. Its religious

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thoughts to be brought under regulation; as

'y respect the past, present, and future

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