The modern universal story-teller [electronic resource] : or, a new picture of human life. Consisting of a greater variety and a better selection of valuable and delightful subjects (calculated for the Pleasure and Improvement of Readers of every Class) than was ever given in any Book of the Kind hitherto published. Forming a Complete Collection of Genuine, Instructive, and Entertaining Stories, Tales, Narrations, Anecdotes, Essays, Histories, Tables, Adventures, Allecories, Visions, Maxims, Romances, Relations, Memoirs, Novels, Criticisms, Wonderful Occurrences, Remarkable Characters, Singular Events, Modern Sketches, Lives, Poems, &c. &c. Among Which, Besides those Articles carefully selected from the most approved English Authors, And from Writers of distinguished Eminence in other Languages, Are Interspersed many original pieces In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Melmoth, Esq. Editor of the elegant Quarto Edition of Telemachus, (with fine Plates by the best Artists) and other universally approved Works.