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CONTENTS.
I.
SOCIAL MORALITY.
SUCKLING AND BEN JONSON.
Curious instance of variability in moral opinion.-Pope's tradition
of Sir John Suckling and the cards.—New edition of Ben Jonson,
and samples of the genius and arrogance of that writer, with a
summary of his poetical character.
II.
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POPE IN SOME LIGHTS IN WHICH HE IS NOT
USUALLY REGARDED.
Unfaded interest of the subject of Pope and others.-Shakspeare not
equally at home with modern life, though more so with general hu-
manity.-Letters of Pope.-A wood-engraving a century ago.—
Pope with a young lady in a stage-coach.-Dining with maids of
honor.-Riding to Oxford by moonlight.-Lovability not dependent
on shape. Insincerity not always what it is taken for.-Whigs,
Tories, and Catholics.-Masterly exposition of the reason why
people live uncomfortably together.-"Rondeaulx," and a Ron-
deau.
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III.
GARTH, PHYSICIANS, AND LOVE-LETTERS.
Garth, and a dedication to him by Steele.-Garth, Pope, and Arbuth-
not.-Other physicians in connection with wit and Literature.—
Desirableness of a selection from the less-known works of Steele,
and of a collection of real Love-Letters.-Two beautiful specimens
from the "Lover." .
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