Transcriber’s note
Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuationinconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list of the changes madecan be found at the end of the book.
MODERN LITERATURE:
A NOVEL.
VOL. III.
Printed by A. Strahan,
Printers-Street.
MODERN LITERATURE:
A NOVEL,
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
By ROBERT BISSET, L.L.D.
Non ignota loquor.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. N. LONGMAN AND O. REES,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1804.
CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRD VOLUME.
| CHAP. I. | |
| Excursion of Hamilton with his Wife and Sister.Approaches to Windsor. Prospect from theKeep. Ideas suggested by Association. Apartmentsof the Castle. Paintings. The Terrace.Royal Family. The King on his own privateGrounds. Combination of Objects that renderthis Scene interesting and impressive. Approachto Oxford in the Dusk of the Evening. FullView of this City and its Colleges. Blenheim.Bybury. Fair Maid of the Inn. StrollingPlayers. Our Hero learns that Hamlet hadbeen performed by the Preacher O’Rourke.His Conversation with Ophelia. More Insightinto Methodistical Itinerancy. They proceedto Tetbury. O’Rourke preaches from aninverted Tub. Affinity between the Doctrines[vi]of Methodism and Mahomedism. The Preacherannounces a Collection. He solves Cases of Conscience.Motives and Modes of Solution. Feesto the Ghostly Monitor. For want of them apoor inoffensive Creature driven to despair. AStranger arrives in pursuit of the Preacher,who had converted and seduced his Wife.An Account of the Love Lectures of ItinerantMethodism. The Devotions of the Preacherinterrupted by the Constable. Ophelia enragedat his Inconstancy, unfolds the Proceedings ofthe Preacher. His Box is searched. TheWatch is found close by a Book of spiritualHymns. The Preacher escapes from Custody,and with him a silver Tankard. | Page 1 |
| CHAP. II. | |
| The Travellers proceed to Bristol. Clifton. Hotwells.Road from Bristol to Bath. Descriptionof Bath. Charming Situation. Charitableand beneficent Institutions. But too much aScene of Gambling and Methodistical Adventurers.Principle of these two Classes thesame. Of the two, Methodism the more conducive[vii]to Gallantry. Conjecture that Ovidwould have approved of Methodists in one Respect.A Digression concerning the ScottishMissionaries. Hamilton meets with an Acquaintance.Mr. Manchester accompaniesthem to the Rooms. Account of the Company.A fashionable Clergyman. Ingenious Schemefor dramatizing the Pulpit, and renderingAction and Spouting a Substitute for Genius,Learning, and Eloquence. Pulpit Exhibitionsof Parson Gilliflower. Rendezvous of thePreacher and Gambler for comparing theirProceeds. Hamilton and his C ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |