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Author |
Aikin, John, 1747-1822 |
Title |
Memoir of John Aikin, M.D. / by Lucy Aikin ; with a selection of his miscellaneous pieces, biographical, moral, and critical. |
Imprint |
London : Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 |
Physical description |
2 v. front. (port.); 22 cm. Bound in full calf.
All edges marbled. |
Call Number |
WPRP 231 |
Notes |
none |
Epigraph |
To
John Haygarth, M.D.
In testimony of his long, affectionate, and
never interrupted friendship
with the subject of the following memoir;
and of her own high esteem for his character
and gratitude for many favors,
the editor very respectfully inscribes
these volumes. |
Contents |
Vol. I.
Preface |
v |
Memoir of John Aikin, M.D. |
1 |
Appendix
(A) Descriptions of Vegetables from the Roman Poets |
277 |
(B) Biographical Account of the Rev. Dr. Enfield |
293 |
(C) Description of the Country above Dorking |
311 |
(D) Biographical Account of Richard Pulteney, M.D. |
330 |
(E) Memoir of Gilbert Wakefield, B.A. |
346 |
(F) Memoir of Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S. |
366 |
(G) Memoir of James Currie, M.D. |
393 |
(H) Memoir of Rev. George Walker |
406 |
VOL. II
Critical Essays On English Poets
Account of the Life and Works of Spenser |
3
|
An Essay on the Poetry of Milton |
31
|
An Essay on the Heroic Poem of Gondibert |
69
|
Critical Remarks on Dryden's Fables |
103
|
Observations on Pope's Essay on Man |
131
|
An Essay on the Plan and Character of Thomson's Seasons |
151
|
A Comparison between Thomson and Cowper as Descriptive Poets |
180
|
Essay on Dr. Armstrong's Art of Preserving Health |
199
|
Essay on the Poems of Green |
223
|
A Critical Essay on Somerville's Poem of Choice |
241
|
An Essay on the Poetry of Goldsmith |
257 |
Miscellaneous Pieces
Aphorisms on Mind and Manners |
277
|
What Man is made for |
280
|
On the Touch for the King's Evil |
284
|
Literary Prophecies for 1797 |
290
|
Remarks on the Charge of Jacobinism |
294
|
On the Probability of a future Melioration in the State of Mankind |
297
|
On Toleration in Russia |
317
|
Military Piety |
323
|
Inquiry into the Nature of Family Pride |
326
|
Apology for the Demolition of Ruins |
341
|
Inquiry into the essential Character of Man |
348
|
Thoughts on the Formation of Character |
362
|
On Self-Biographers |
388
|
On the Attachment to Mary Queen of Scots |
399
|
On the Imitative Principle |
404
|
Historical Relations of Poisonings |
412
|
A Word for Philosophy |
427 [434]
|
On Cant |
443
|
On Mottoes |
455 |
|
