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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... Young ( Steele ) 213 192 Parental Fondness and Expectation ( Steele ) 217 198 The Female Salamander ( Addison ) 222 247 Different Classes of Female Orators ( Addison ) 227 NO . 253 On Detraction Among Poets - Pope's Essay TABLE OF CONTENTS.
... Young ( Steele ) 213 192 Parental Fondness and Expectation ( Steele ) 217 198 The Female Salamander ( Addison ) 222 247 Different Classes of Female Orators ( Addison ) 227 NO . 253 On Detraction Among Poets - Pope's Essay TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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... young men in the Age of Anne was an imitative and polishing sort of process . The gentleman's son might get a pretty good classical education - little more . He usually completed it with a " Grand Tour " of the nearer con- tinental ...
... young men in the Age of Anne was an imitative and polishing sort of process . The gentleman's son might get a pretty good classical education - little more . He usually completed it with a " Grand Tour " of the nearer con- tinental ...
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... young authors to study Addison . When he did so , we may be sure it was not because he was attracted by the simple style of the Spectator essays . Rather it was the precision and polish of Addison's prose , a certain classical purity of ...
... young authors to study Addison . When he did so , we may be sure it was not because he was attracted by the simple style of the Spectator essays . Rather it was the precision and polish of Addison's prose , a certain classical purity of ...
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... young lady who looked up at him . Away goes the coach , and the young gentleman pulled off his night - cap , and instead of rubbing his gums , as he ought to do , out of the window till about four o'clock , he sits him down , and spoke ...
... young lady who looked up at him . Away goes the coach , and the young gentleman pulled off his night - cap , and instead of rubbing his gums , as he ought to do , out of the window till about four o'clock , he sits him down , and spoke ...
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... young gentlemen to travel for their education . It is certain , said he , if gentlemen travel at an age proper for them , during the course of their voyages , their accounts to their friends , and , after their return , their discourse ...
... young gentlemen to travel for their education . It is certain , said he , if gentlemen travel at an age proper for them , during the course of their voyages , their accounts to their friends , and , after their return , their discourse ...
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Page 325 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 151 - I have observed that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor; with other particulars of a like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 170 - When I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey; where the gloominess of the place, and the use to which it is applied, with the solemnity of the building, and the condition of the people who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness, that is not disagreeable.
Page 251 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 234 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 170 - ... who lie in it, are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy, or rather thoughtfulness that is not disagreeable. I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the church-yard, the cloisters, and the church, amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead. Most of them recorded nothing else...
Page 172 - Shovel's monument has very often given me great offence : instead of the brave rough English Admiral, which was the distinguishing character of that plain gallant man, he is represented on his tomb by the figure of a beau, dressed in a long periwig, and reposing himself upon velvet cushions under a canopy of state.
Page 333 - The first of them, says he, that has a Spaniel by his Side, is a Yeoman of about an hundred Pounds a Year, an honest Man: He is just within the Game Act, and qualified to kill an Hare or a Pheasant: He knocks down a Dinner with his Gun twice or thrice a Week; and by that means lives much cheaper than those who have not so good an Estate as himself. He would be a good Neighbour if he did not destroy so many Partridges: in short, he is a very sensible Man; shoots flying; and has been several times...
Page 303 - As I was walking with him last night, he asked me how I liked the good man whom I have just now mentioned ? and without staying for my answer, told me that he was afraid of being insulted with Latin and Greek at his own table...
Page 200 - The hunting of that day. The stout Earl of Northumberland, A vow to God did make, His pleasure in the Scottish woods Three summer's days to take; The chiefest harts in Chevy-Chase To kill and bear away.