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Author

Aikin, John

Title

Miscellaneous pieces, in prose.

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Johnson, 1792.

Call Number

WPRP 122

Physical description

266 p. ; 20 cm

Citation

Not in Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women; multiple copies in Worldcat.

Notes

Bound with:

Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Laetitia
Poems : a new ed., corr., to which is added an epistle to William Wilberforce.

Epigraph

none

Online copies

Contents

On the Province of Comedy	1
The Hill of Science, A Vision	27
On Romances, an Imitation	39
Seláma, an Imitation of Ossian	47
Against Inconsistency in our Expectations	59
The Canal and the Brook, an Apologue	79
On Monastic Institutions	88
On the Pleasure derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, a Fragment	117
On the Heroic Poem of Gondibert	138
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations; with a Tale	190
Essay on Devotional Taste	220