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CHARACTER WRITINGS
OF THE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
STUPIDITY.
A RUFFLER.
A TRAVELLER.
THE TRUE CRITIC.
THE CHARACTER OF THE PERSONS.
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY'S CHARACTERS;
OR,
WITTY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PROPERTIES OF SUNDRY PERSONS.
A GOOD WOMAN.
A VERY WOMAN.
HER NEXT PART.
A DISSEMBLER
A COURTIER,
A GOLDEN ASS
A FLATTERER
AN IGNORANT GLORY-HUNTER
A TIMIST
AN AMORIST
AN AFFECTED TRAVELLER
A WISE MAN
A NOBLE SPIRIT
AN OLD MAN
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
A FINE GENTLEMAN
AN ELDER BROTHER
A BRAGGADOCIO WELSHMAN
A PEDANT.
A SERVING-MAN
AN HOST
AN OSTLER
THE TRUE CHARACTER OF A DUNCE.
A GOOD WIFE
A MELANCHOLY MAN
A SAILOR
A SOLDIER
A TAILOR
A PURITAN
A MERE COMMON LAWYER
A MERE SCHOLAR.
A TINKER
AN APPARITOR
AN ALMANAC-MAKER
A HYPOCRITE
A CHAMBERMAID.
A PRECISIAN.
AN INNS OF COURT MAN.
A MERE FELLOW OF AN HOUSE.
A WORTHY COMMANDER IN THE WARS
A VAINGLORIOUS COWARD IN COMMAND
A PIRATE,
AN ORDINARY FENCER
A PUNY CLERK.
A FOOTMAN.
A NOBLE AND RETIRED HOUSEKEEPER
AN INTRUDER INTO FAVOUR
A FAIR AND HAPPY MILKMAID
AN ARRANT HORSE-COURSER
A ROARING BOY.
A DRUNKEN DUTCHMAN RESIDENT IN ENGLAND
A PHANTASTIQUE: AN IMPROVIDENT YOUNG GALLANT,
A BUTTON-MAKER OF AMSTERDAM
A DISTASTER OF THE TIME
A MERE FELLOW OF AN HOUSE
A MERE PETTIFOGGER
AN INGROSSER OF CORN.
A DEVILISH USURER
A WATERMAN
A REVEREND JUDGE
A VIRTUOUS WIDOW
AN ORDINARY WIDOW
A QUACK-SALVER
A CANTING ROGUE.
A FRENCH COOK.
A SEXTON
A JESUIT
AN EXCELLENT ACTOR.
A FRANKLIN.
A RHYMER
A COVETOUS MAN.
THE PROUD MAN
A PRISON.
A PRISONER
A CREDITOR
A SERGEANT
HIS YEOMAN
A COMMON CRUEL JAILOR
WHAT A CHARACTER IS.
THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE.
AN ESSAY OF VALOUR.
JOSEPH HALL'S
CHARACTERS OF VICES AND VIRTUES
A DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN.
THE WITLESS GALLANT.
CHARACTERS OF VIRTUES AND VICES.
IN TWO BOOKS.
A PREMONITION or THE TITLE AND USE OF CHARACTERS.
THE FIRST BOOK.
CHARACTERISMS OF VIRTUES.
THE PROEM.
CHARACTER OF THE WISE MAN.
OF AN HONEST MAN.
OF THE FAITHFUL MAN.
OF THE HUMBLE MAN.
OF A VALIANT MAN.
OF A PATIENT MAN.
OF THE TRUE FRIEND.
OF THE TRULY NOBLE.
OF THE GOOD MAGISTRATE.
OF THE PENITENT.
HE IS A HAPPY MAN
THE SECOND BOOK.
CHARACTERISMS OF VICES.
THE PROEM.
CHARACTER OF THE HYPOCRITE.
OF THE BUSYBODY.
OF THE SUPERSTITIOUS.
OF THE PROFANE.
OF THE MALCONTENT.
OF THE INCONSTANT.
OF THE FLATTERER.
OF THE SLOTHFUL.
OF THE COVETOUS.
OF THE VAINGLORIOUS.
OF THE PRESUMPTUOUS.
OF THE DISTRUSTFUL.
OF THE AMBITIOUS.
OF THE UNTHRIFT.
OF THE ENVIOUS.
JOHN STEPHENS,
JOHN EARLE
MICROCOSMOGRAPHY;
- OR,
A PIECE OF THE WORLD CHARACTERIZED.
A CHILD
A YOUNG RAW PREACHER
A GRAVE DIVINE
A MERE DULL PHYSICIAN.
AN ALDERMAN.
A DISCONTENTED MAN
AN ANTIQUARY.
A YOUNGER BROTHER.
A MERE FORMAL MAN
A CHURCH-PAPIST
A SELF-CONCEITED MAN
A TOO IDLY RESERVED MAN
A TAVERN
A SHARK
A CARRIER
A YOUNG MAN.
AN OLD COLLEGE BUTLER
AN UPSTART COUNTRY KNIGHT
AN IDLE GALLANT
A CONSTABLE
A DOWN-RIGHT SCHOLAR
A PLAIN COUNTRY FELLOW
A PLAYER.
A DETRACTOR
A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY
A WEAK MAN
A TOBACCO-SELLER
A POT-POET
A PLAUSIBLE MAN
A BOWL-ALLEY
THE WORLD'S WISE MAN
A SURGEON
A CONTEMPLATIVE MAN
A SHE PRECISE HYPOCRITE
A SCEPTIC IN RELIGION
AN ATTORNEY.
A PARTIAL MAN
A TRUMPETER
A VULGAR-SPIRITED MAN
A PLODDING STUDENT
PAUL'S WALK[64]
A COOK.
A BOLD FORWARD MAN
A BAKER.
A PRETENDER TO LEARNING
A HERALD
THE COMMON SINGING-MEN IN CATHEDRAL CHURCHES
A SHOPKEEPER.
A BLUNT MAN
A HANDSOME HOSTESS
A CRITIC
A SERGEANT, OR CATCH-POLE
A UNIVERSITY DUN
A STAID MAN
A MODEST MAN
A MERE EMPTY WIT
A DRUNKARD
A PRISON
A SERVING MAN
AN INSOLENT MAN
ACQUAINTANCE
A MERE COMPLIMENTAL MAN
A POOR FIDDLER
A MEDDLING MAN
A GOOD OLD MAN
A FLATTERER
A HIGH-SPIRITED MAN
A MERE GULL CITIZEN
A LASCIVIOUS MAN
A RASH MAN
AN AFFECTED MAN
A PROFANE MAN
A COWARD
A SORDID RICH MAN
A MERE GREAT MAN
A POOR MAN
AN ORDINARY HONEST MAN
A SUSPICIOUS OR JEALOUS MAN
NICHOLAS BRETON
- NICH. BRETON.
TO THE READER.
CHARACTERS UPON ESSAYS,
MORAL AND DIVINE.
WISDOM.
LEARNING.
KNOWLEDGE.
PRACTICE.
PATIENCE.
LOVE.
PEACE.
WAR.
VALOUR.
RESOLUTION.
HONOUR.
TRUTH.
TIME.
DEATH.
FAITH.
FEAR.
OF STUDIES.
THE GOOD AND THE BAD;
- OR,
DESCRIPTIONS OF THE WORTHIES AND
UNWORTHIES OF THIS AGE.
A WORTHY KING.
AN UNWORTHY KING.
A WORTHY QUEEN.
A WORTHY PRINCE.
AN UNWORTHY PRINCE.
A WORTHY PRIVY COUNCILLOR.
AN UNWORTHY COUNCILLOR.
A NOBLEMAN.
AN UNNOBLE MAN.
A WORTHY BISHOP.
AN UNWORTHY BISHOP.
A WORTHY JUDGE.
AN UNWORTHY JUDGE.
A WORTHY KNIGHT.
AN UNWORTHY KNIGHT.
A WORTHY GENTLEMAN.
AN UNWORTHY GENTLEMAN.
A WORTHY LAWYER.
AN UNWORTHY LAWYER.
A WORTHY SOLDIER.
AN UNTRAINED SOLDIER.
A WORTHY PHYSICIAN.
AN UNWORTHY PHYSICIAN.
A WORTHY MERCHANT.
AN UNWORTHY MERCHANT.
A GOOD MAN.
AN ATHEIST OR MOST BAD MAN.
A WISE MAN.
A FOOL.
AN HONEST MAN.
A KNAVE.
AN USURER.
A BEGGAR.
A VIRGIN.
A WANTON WOMAN.
A QUIET WOMAN.
AN UNQUIET WOMAN.
A GOOD WIFE.
AN EFFEMINATE FOOL.
A PARASITE.
A DRUNKARD.
A COWARD.
AN HONEST POOR MAN.
A JUST MAN.
A REPENTANT SINNER.
A REPROBATE.
AN OLD MAN.
A YOUNG MAN.
A HOLY MAN.
GEOFFREY MINSHULL.
FROM THE DEDICATION OF "ESSAYS AND CHARACTERS OF A PRISON AND PRISONERS."
A CHARACTER OF A PRISONER.
HENRY PARROT [?].
A SCOLD
A GOOD WIFE
PLAYER
A CORRANTO-COINER
JOHN MILTON,
ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER,
ANOTHER ON THE SAME.
WYE SALTONSTALL,
THE TERM
THE HORSE
PAMPHLETS
JOHN CLEVELAND,
THE CHARACTER OF A COUNTRY COMMITTEE-MAN, WITH THE EAR-MARK OF A SEQUESTRATOR.
THE CHARACTER OF A DIURNAL-MAKER.
THE CHARACTER OF A LONDON DIURNAL.
THE VALIANT MAN.
SAMUEL BUTLER,
CHARACTERS.
A DEGENERATE NOBLE; OR, ONE THAT IS PROUD OF HIS BIRTH,
A HUFFING COURTIER
A COURT BEGGAR
A BUMPKIN OR COUNTRY SQUIRE
AN ANTIQUARY
A PROUD MAN
A SMALL POET
A PHILOSOPHER
A MELANCHOLY MAN
A TRAVELLER
A CURIOUS MAN
A HERALD
A VIRTUOSO
AN INTELLIGENCER
A QUIBBLER
A TIME-SERVER
A PRATER
A DISPUTANT
A PROJECTOR
A COMPLEMENTER
A CHEAT
A TEDIOUS MAN
A PRETENDER
A NEWSMONGER
A MODERN CRITIC
A BUSY MAN
A PEDANT
A HUNTER
AN AFFECTED MAN
A MEDICINE-TAKER
THE MISER
A SWEARER
THE LUXURIOUS
AN UNGRATEFUL MAN
A SQUIRE OF DAMES
AN HYPOCRITE
AN OPINIONATER
A CHOLERIC MAN
A SUPERSTITIOUS MAN
A DROLL
THE OBSTINATE MAN
A ZEALOT
THE OVERDOER
THE RASH MAN
THE AFFECTED OR FORMAL
A FLATTERER
A PRODIGAL
THE INCONSTANT
A GLUTTON
A RIBALD
A MODERN POLITICIAN
A MODERN STATESMAN
A DUKE OF BUCKS
A FANTASTIC
AN HARANGUER
A RANTER
AN AMORIST
AN ASTROLOGER
A LAWYER
AN EPIGRAMMATIST
A FANATIC.
A PROSELYTE.
A CLOWN
A WOOER
AN IMPUDENT MAN
AN IMITATOR
A SOT
A JUGGLER
A ROMANCE-WRITER
A LIBELLER
A FACTIOUS MEMBER
A PLAY-WRITER
A MOUNTEBANK
A WITTOL
A LITIGIOUS MAN
A HUMOURIST
A LEADER OF A FACTION
A DEBAUCHED MAN
THE SEDITIOUS MAN
THE RUDE MAN
A RABBLE
A KNIGHT OF THE POST
AN UNDESERVING FAVOURITE
A MALICIOUS MAN
A KNAVE
APPENDIX.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR.

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