A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings / From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725)

by Henry Gally

Numbers 1-4 out of print.

5. Samuel Wesley’s Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and Essay on Heroic Poetry (1693).

[6.] Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the Stage (1704) and Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage (1704).

Second Year (1947-1948)

[7.] John Gay’s The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit from The English Theophrastus (1702).

[8.] Rapin’s De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).

[9.] T. Hanmer’s (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736).

[10.] Corbyn Morris’ Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc. (1744).

[11.] Thomas Purney’s Discourse on the Pastoral (1717).

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.