Miscellaneous pieces, in prose
By: by J. and A.L. Aikin
Contributors: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825
Edition: The 2d ed.
Publisher: J. Johnson
Published: 1775
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Table of contents: title: On the Province of comedy.- The hill of science, a vision.- On romances, an imitation.- Selama, an imitation of Ossian.- Against inconsistency in our expectations.- The canal and the brook, a reverie.- On monastic institutions.- On the pleasure derived from objects of terror; with Sir Bertrand, a fragment.- On the heroic poem of Gondibert.- An enquiry into those kinds of distress which excite agreeable sensations; with a tale.