MISCELLANEOUS PIECES, IN PROSE
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MISCELLANEOUS PIECES,
IN
PROSE,
BY
JOHN AIKIN, M. D.
AND
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD.
THE THIRD EDITION.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARD,
M.DCC.XCII.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
|---|---|
| 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 | 119 |
| 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 |
ON THE
PROVINCE
OF
COMEDY.
Various are the methods whichart and ingenuity have invented toexhibit a picture of human life andmanners. These have differed from eachother, both in the mode of representation,and in the particular view of thesubject which has been taken. Withrespect to the first, it is universally allowed