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The following is a List of the Works of FIELDING, so far as they are known in the present day :

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr Abraham Adams.

The History of a Foundling.

Amelia.

The History of the Life of Jonathan Wild the Great.

A Journey from this World to the next.

Miscellanies, published in one volume, containing two Essays, on Conversation, and on the Knowledge and Character of Men, with several Poems, &c. An Address to the Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex.

Examples of the Interposition of Providence in the Detection and Punishment of Murder. With an Introduction and Conclusion.

A Proposal for making an effectual Provision for the Poor, for amending their Morals, and rendering them useful Members of Society.

An Inquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c. with some Proposals for remedying the growing Evil, in which the Laws relating to Felons are freely considered.

Of the remedy of Affliction for the loss of our Friends.

Translation of the first Olynthiac of Demosthenes.

An Answer to a Pamphlet, entitled "An Apology for the Conduct of a late celebrated Second-rate Minister, when he commenced Courtier."

A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning.

Case of Bosaverus Penlez.

Prefaces to David Simple, and the Familiar Letters between David Simple and others.

An Ironical Imitation of Natural History, in a Description of a Guinea, as a newlydiscovered Insect or Animal, under the Name of the Terrestrial Chrysippus, or Golden-foot.

DRAMATIC WORKS.

Love in several Masques, a Comedy, in Three Acts.

The Temple Beau, a Comedy, in Five Acts.

The Author's Farce, with a Puppet-show, called the Pleasures of the Town, in Three Acts.

The Coffee-house Politician, or the Justice caught in his own Trap, a Comedy, in Five Acts.

The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, with Annotations, in Three Acts.

The Letter Writers, or a New Way to keep a Wife at Home, a Farce.

The Lottery, a Farce.

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The Old Man taught Wisdom, or the Virgin Unmasked, a Farce.

The Universal Gallant, or the Different Husbands, a Comedy, in Five Acts.

Pasquin, a Dramatic Satire on the Times, being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, &c. The Historical Register for 1736.

Eurydice, a Farce.

Eurydice Hiss'd, or a Word to the Wise.

Tumble-down Dick, or Phaeton in the Suds.

Miss Lucy in Town, a Sequel to the Virgin Unmasked, a Farce.

Plutus, the God of Riches, translated from the Greek of Aristophanes.
The Wedding-Day, a Comedy, in Five Acts.

An Interlude between Jupiter, Juno, Apollo, and Mercury.

The Fathers, or the Good-natured Man, a Comedy, in Five Acts.

A Dialogue between Alexander the Great and Diogenes the Cynic.

PERIODICAL PAPERS, IN WHICH FIELDING WAS ENGAGED.

The Champion,

The True Patriot,

The Jacobite Journal, and

The Covent-Garden Journal.

POSTHUMOUS WORKS.

Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon.

Some Tracts relating to the Poor, &c. published in substance by Sir John Fielding.

Comment on Lord Bolingbroke's Essays, a fragment of which only was in a state fit for publication.

Besides these, a work remained in the hands of Sir John Fielding, on the subject of Crown Law, which was never published.

APPENDIX.

An EPISTLE to the Right Honourable SIR ROBErt Walpole.

WHILE at the helm of state you ride,

Our nation's envy and its pride;
While foreign courts with wonder gaze,
And curse those councils which they praise;
Would you not wonder, sir, to view
Your bard a greater man than you?

Which that he is, you cannot doubt,

When you have read the sequel out.

You know, great sir, that ancient fellows,
Philosophers, and such folks, tell us,
No great analogy between

Greatness and happiness is seen.
If then, as it might follow straight,
Wretched to be, is to be great;
Forbid it, Gods, that you should try
What 'tis to be so great as I !

The family, that dines the latest,
Is in our street esteem'd the greatest;
But latest hours must surely fall
'Fore him, who never dines at all.

Your taste in architect, you know,
Hath been admired by friend and foe;
But can your earthly domes compare
With all my castles-in the air?

We're often taught, it doth behove us
To think those greater, who're above us;
Another instance of my glory,

Who live above you, twice two story;

And from my garret can look down
On the whole street of Arlington.*

* Where Sir Robert lived.

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THE

HISTORY

OF THE

ADVENTURES OF JOSEPH ANDREWS,

AND HIS FRIEND

MR ABRAHAM ADAMS.

WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF THE MANNER OF CERVANTES,

AUTHOR OF DON QUIXOTE.

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