Shenstone-Green: or, the new Paradise lost. Being a history of human nature. In three volumes. ... Written by the proprietor of the Green. The editor Courtney Melmoth. [pt.1]
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- Shenstone-Green: or, the new Paradise lost. Being a history of human nature. In three volumes. ... Written by the proprietor of the Green. The editor Courtney Melmoth. [pt.1]
- Author
- Pratt, Mr. (Samuel Jackson), 1749-1814.
- Publication
- London :: printed for R. Baldwin,
- 1779.
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Contents
- half title
- frontispiece
- title page
- dedication
- CONTENTS TO VOLUME THE FIRST.
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SHENSTONE-GREEN.
- CHAP. I. THE PROPRIETOR'S PREFACE.
- CHAP. II. A GOOD-NATURED PAGE OR TWO, WHICH MAY PERHAPS MEND THE READER'S TEMPER.
- CHAP. III. OF THE LATE WM. SHENSTONE, ESQ.
- CHAP. IV. WHICH PROVES THE AUTHOR'S DAUGH|TER TO BE A STRANGE GIRL.
- CHAP. V. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROPRIETOR'S STEWARD.
- CHAP. VI. THE PROJECT ADVANCES.
- CHAP. VII. THE PROPRIETOR BUYS A BOOK.
- CHAP. VIII. THE BOOK IS EXAMINED.
- CHAP. IX. A PANEGYRIC ON WOMEN AND BOOKS.
- CHAP. X. THE EFFUSIONS OF ENTHUSIASM.
- CHAP. XI. A PROJECT DESTROYED BY A LAUGH.
- CHAP. XII. CONTAINING A CURIOUS ADVERTISE|MENT.
- CHAP. XIII. THE PROPRIETORS WEAKNESS AND SINGULARITY.
- CHAP. XIV. MORE WEAKNESS, AND AN EXTRA|ORDINARY PETITION.
- CHAP. XV. INTRODUCES AN ODDITY.
- CHAP. XVI. THE PROJECT BECOMES POPULAR.
- CHAP. XVII. PETITION THE SECOND.
- CHAP. XVIII. MR. ELIXIR, THE APOTHECARY, RE|LATES THE HEADS OF HIS STORY.
- CHAP. XIX. MR. SAMUEL SARCASM, THE STEWARD, SETS OUT ON A REMARKABLE JOURNEY.
- CHAP. XX. THE STEWARD STOPS ON THE ROAD TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE PROPRIETOR.
- CHAP. XXI. SHENSTONE-GREEN IS NOT PEOPLED WITHOUT A GOOD DEAL OF TROUBLE.
- CHAP. XXII. THE STEWARD SHEWS HIMSELF TO BE A MAN OF SENSE.
- CHAP. XXIII. CONTAINING THREE GREAT SURPRIZES; ONE FOR THE READER, AND TWO FOR CERTAIN CHARACTERS.
- CHAP. XXIV. BEGINS WITH THE PROPRIETOR'S BE|NEVOLENCE, AND ENDS WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A WHISTLER.