Ethica; Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners & Books

Absalom Absalom and Achitophel Achitophel Addison Æneid Aristotle associated audience biography Bolingbroke booksellers Burke century character characteristic Church Cicero claims common contrast Court criticism Cromwell Demosthenes drama Dryden Dunciad effect eloquence England English Essay fame familiar favour fiction Foe's France French friends genius Goldsmith hand Herodotus historian Horace Walpole House Hudibras imagination influence intellectual Jacobite James Johnson king language legislation less letters liberty literary literature lived Lord manner ment Milton mind modern Montaigne moral nature never once orator oratory pamphlets Paradise Lost Parliament Perigordian philosopher Pitt Plutarch poem poet poetical poetry political Pope Pope's popular principle Protestant Protestantism Puritan Quintilian reader reason religious reputation revolution rhetoric Roman Rome Sallust satire scarcely sentiments Shakspeare sometimes speaking speeches spirit strong style superior Swift Tacitus taste Thucydides tion truth virtue Walpole Whigs writings wrote Xenophon