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 132
... pleased to call them , though she so much approves the men- tion of them . It is to be noted , that a woman's flatterer is generally elder than herself , her years serving at once to recommend her patroness's age , and to add weight to ...
... pleased to call them , though she so much approves the men- tion of them . It is to be noted , that a woman's flatterer is generally elder than herself , her years serving at once to recommend her patroness's age , and to add weight to ...
Page 264
Walter James Graham. pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this descrip- tion which carry in them a greater measure of proba- bility ...
Walter James Graham. pleased with nothing in a poet which has not life and manners ascribed to it ; but for my own part , I am pleased most with those passages in this descrip- tion which carry in them a greater measure of proba- bility ...
Page 334
... pleased , might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river . My friend Sir ROGER heard them both , upon a round trot ; and , after having paused some time , told them , with an air of a man who would not give his judgment ...
... pleased , might take the law of him for fishing in that part of the river . My friend Sir ROGER heard them both , upon a round trot ; and , after having paused some time , told them , with an air of a man who would not give his judgment ...
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS | 5 |
CoffeeHouse | 9 |
Steele and Addison | 12 |
Copyright | |
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