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Goldsmith's essays

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I. Description of various Clubs 7

II. Specimen of a Magazine in Miniature 17

III. Asem, an Eastern Tale 22

IV. On the English Clergy, and popular Preachers 31

V. A Reverie at the Boar’s Head Tavern, Eastcheap 37

VI. Adventures of a Strolling Player 54

VII. Rules enjoined to be observed at a Russian Assembly 66

VIII. Biographical Memoir, supposed to be written by the Ordinary of Newgate 68

IX. On National Concord 71

X. Female Warriors 74

XI. On National Prejudice 80

XII. On Taste 85

XIII. Cultivation of Taste 95

XIV. Origin of Poetry 107

XV. Poetry distinguished from other Writing 121

XVI. On Metaphor 133

XVII. On Hyperbole 154

XVIII. On Versification 158

XIX. Schools of Music—Objections thereto, and Answers 164

XX. On Carolan, the Irish Bard 171

XXI. On the Tenants of the Leasowes 174

XXII. On Sentimental Comedy 179

XXIII. Scotch Marriages 184

XXIV. On the Dignity of Human Nature 188

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