List of abbreviations -- Introductory note -- Text -- Manuscripts -- Reception -- Brief biographical directory of selected personages -- T he Plain -- I On the Prose-Style of Poets -- Essay II On Dreams -- Essay III On the Conversation of Authors -- Essay IV The Same Subject Continued -- Essay V On Reason and Imagination -- Essay VI On Application to Study -- Essay VII On Londoners and Country People -- Essay VIII On the Spirit of Obligations -- Essay IX On the Old Age of Artists -- Essay X On Envy (A Dialogue) -- Essay XI On Sitting for O ne’s Picture -- Essay XII Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers? -- Essay XIII On the Pleasure of Hating -- Essay XIV On Dr Spurzheim’s Theory -- Essay XV On Egotism -- Essay XVI Hot and Cold -- Essay XVII The New School of Reform -- Essay XVIII On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life -- Essay XIX On the Look of a Gentleman -- Essay XX On Reading Old Books -- Essay XXI On Personal Character -- Essay XXII On People of Sense -- Essay XXIII On Antiquity -- Essay XXIV On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking -- Essay XXV On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke -- Essay XXVI On Novelty and Familiarity -- Essay XXVII On Old English Writers and Speakers -- Essay XXVIII Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars -- Essay XXIX Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear -- Essay XXX On Depth and Superficiality -- Essay XXXI On Respectable People -- Essay XXXII On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume.