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30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's Letters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's Miscellanies (1770).

SIXTH YEAR (1951-1952)

31. Thomas Gray's An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript.

32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to Ibrahim (1674), etc.

33. Henry Gally's A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725).

34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).

35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763).

36. Joseph Harris's The City Bride (1696).

37. Thomas Morrison's A Pindarick Ode on Painting (1767).

38. John Phillips' A Satyr Against Hypocrites.

39. Thomas Warton's A History of English Poetry.

40. Edward Bysshe's The Art of English Poetry.

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Selections from the Tatler, the Spectator, the Guardian. Introduction by Donald F. Bond.

BERNARD MANDEVILLE: A Letter to Dion (1732). Introduction by Jacob Viner.

M. C. SARBIEWSKI: The Odes of Casimire (1646), Introduction by Maren-Sofie Roestvig.

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