Selections from the Tatler, the Spectator and Their SuccessorsWalter James Graham Nelson, 1928 - 422 pages Collection of essays includes selected complete numbers of the Tatler and the Spectator, along with single essays from later publications. Known or "reasonably conjectured" authorship indicated. Several of the selected works are by Addison or Steele. |
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Page 178
... nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving enter- tainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with misfortunes , is such a spectacle as gods might look upon with pleasure : and ...
... nature , so it is capable of giving the mind one of the most delightful and most improving enter- tainments . A virtuous man ( says Seneca ) struggling with misfortunes , is such a spectacle as gods might look upon with pleasure : and ...
Page 190
... Natural historians tell us , that no fruit grows originally among us , besides hips and haws , acorns and pig - nuts , with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of it self , and without the assistances of art , can ...
... Natural historians tell us , that no fruit grows originally among us , besides hips and haws , acorns and pig - nuts , with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate of it self , and without the assistances of art , can ...
Page 242
... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inadvertency , or to the weakness of hu- man nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every cir- cumstance in so long a work . The ...
... natural , we should , with Horace , impute to a pardonable inadvertency , or to the weakness of hu- man nature , which cannot attend to each minute particular , and give the last finishing to every cir- cumstance in so long a work . The ...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS | 5 |
CoffeeHouse | 9 |
Steele and Addison | 12 |
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