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Зритель

in three volumes: volume 1

A New Edition

Reproducing the Original Text

Both as First Issued

and as Corrected by its Authors

with Introduction, Notes, and Index

edited by Henry Morley

1891

Table of Contents

Предисловие

Оригинальное посвящение

Посвящение ко второму тому

Посвящение к третьему тому

No. 1 ­ Thursday, March 1, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 2 ­ Friday, March 2, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 3 ­ Saturday, March 3, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 4 ­ Monday, March 5, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 5 ­ Tuesday, March 6, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 6 ­ Wednesday, March 7, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 7 ­ Thursday, March 8, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 8 ­ Friday, March 9, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 9 ­ Saturday, March 10, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 10 ­ Monday, March 12, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 11 ­ Tuesday, March 13, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 12 ­ Wednesday, March 14, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 13 ­ Thursday, March 15, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 14 ­ Friday, March 16, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 15 ­ Saturday, March 17, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 16 ­ Monday, March 19, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 17 ­ Tuesday, March 20, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 18 ­ Wednesday, March 21, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 19 ­ Thursday, March 22, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 20 ­ Friday, March 23, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 21 ­ Saturday, March 24, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 22 ­ Monday, March 26, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 23 ­ Tuesday, March 27, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 24 ­ Wednesday, March 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 25 ­ Thursday, March 29, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 26 ­ Friday, March 30, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 27 ­ Saturday, March 31, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 28 ­ Monday, April 2, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 29 ­ Tuesday, April 3, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 30 ­ Wednesday, April 4, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 31 ­ Thursday, April 5, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 32 ­ Friday, April 6, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 33 ­ Saturday, April 7, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 34 ­ Monday, April 9, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 35 ­ Tuesday, April 10, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 36 ­ Wednesday, April 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 37 ­ Thursday, April 12, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 38 ­ Friday, April 13, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 39 ­ Saturday, April 14, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 40 ­ Monday, April 16, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 41 ­ Tuesday, April 17, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 42 ­ Wednesday, April 18, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 43 ­ Thursday, April 19, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 44 ­ Friday, April 20, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 45 ­ Saturday, April 21, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 46 ­ Monday, April 23, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 47 ­ Tuesday, April 24, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 48 ­ Wednesday, April 25, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 49 ­ Thursday, April 26, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 50 ­ Friday, April 27, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 51 ­ Saturday, April 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 52 ­ Monday, April 30, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 53 ­ Tuesday, May 1, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 54 ­ Wednesday, May 2, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 55 ­ Thursday, May 3, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 56 ­ Friday, May 4, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 57 ­ Saturday, May 5, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 58 ­ Monday, May 7, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 59 ­ Tuesday, May 8, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 60 ­ Wednesday, May 9, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 61 ­ Thursday, May 10, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 62 ­ Friday, May 11, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 63 ­ Saturday, May 12, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 64 ­ Monday, May 14, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 65 ­ Tuesday, May 15, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 66 ­ Wednesday, May 16, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 67 ­ Thursday, May 17, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 68 ­ Friday, May 18, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 69 ­ Saturday, May 19, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 70 ­ Monday, May 21, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 71 ­ Tuesday, May 22, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 72 ­ Wednesday, May 23, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 73 ­ Thursday, May 24, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 74 ­ Friday, May 25, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 75 ­ Saturday, May 26, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 76 ­ Monday, May 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 77 ­ Tuesday, May 29, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 78 ­ Wednesday, May 30, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 79 ­ Thursday, May 31, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 80 ­ Friday, June 1, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 81 ­ Saturday, June 2, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 82 ­ Monday, June 4, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 83 ­ Tuesday, June 5, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 84 ­ Wednesday, June 6, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 85 ­ Thursday, June 7, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 86 ­ Friday, June 8, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 87 ­ Saturday, June 9, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 88 ­ Monday, June 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 89 ­ Tuesday, June 12, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 90 ­ Wednesday, June 13, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 91 ­ Thursday, June 14, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 92 ­ Friday, June 15, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 93 ­ Saturday, June 16, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 94 ­ Monday, June 18, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 95 ­ Tuesday, June 19, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 96 ­ Wednesday, June 20, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 97 ­ Thursday, June 21, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 98 ­ Friday, June 22, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 99 ­ Saturday, June 23, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 100 ­ Monday, June 24, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 101 ­ Tuesday, June 26, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 102 ­ Wednesday, June 27, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 103 ­ Thursday, June 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 104 ­ Friday, June 29, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 105 ­ Saturday, June 30, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 106 ­ Monday, July 2, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 107 ­ Tuesday, July 3, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 108 ­ Wednesday, July 4, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 109 ­ Thursday, July 5, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 110 ­ Friday, July 6, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 111 ­ Saturday, July 7, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 112 ­ Monday, July 9, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 113 ­ Tuesday, July 10, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 114 ­ Wednesday, July 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 115 ­ Thursday, July 12, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 116 ­ Friday, July 13, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 117 ­ Saturday, July 14, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 118 ­ Monday, July 16, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 119 ­ Tuesday, July 17, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 120 ­ Wednesday, July 18, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 121 ­ Thursday, July 19, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 122 ­ Friday, July 20, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 123 ­ Saturday, July 21, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 124 ­ Monday, July 23, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 125 ­ Tuesday, July 24, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 126 ­ Wednesday, July 25, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 127 ­ Thursday, July 26, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 128 ­ Friday, July 27, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 129 ­ Saturday, July 28, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 130 ­ Monday, July 30, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 131 ­ Tuesday, July 31, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 132 ­ Wednesday, August 1, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 133 ­ Thursday, August 2, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 134 ­ Friday, August 3, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 135 ­ Saturday, August 4, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 136 ­ Monday, August 6, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 137 ­ Tuesday, August 7, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 138 ­ Wednesday, August 8, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 139 ­ Thursday, August 9, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 140 ­ Friday, August 10, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 141 ­ Saturday, August 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 142 ­ Monday, August 13, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 143 ­ Tuesday, August 14, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 144 ­ Wednesday, August 15, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 145 ­ Thursday, August 16, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 146 ­ Friday, August 17, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 147 ­ Saturday, August 18, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 148 ­ Monday, August 20, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 149 ­ Tuesday, August 21, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 150 ­ Wednesday, August 22, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 151 ­ Thursday, August 23, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 152 ­ Friday, August 24, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 153 ­ Saturday, August 25, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 154 ­ Monday, August 27, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 155 ­ Tuesday, August 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 156 ­ Wednesday, August 29, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 157 ­ Thursday, August 30, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 158 ­ Friday, August 31, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 159 ­ Saturday, September 1, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 160 ­ Monday, September 3, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 161 ­ Tuesday, September 4, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 162 ­ Wednesday, September 5, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 163 ­ Thursday, September 6, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 164 ­ Friday, September 7, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 165 ­ Saturday, September 8, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 166 ­ Monday, September 10, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 167 ­ Tuesday, September 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 168 ­ Wednesday, September 12, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 169 ­ Thursday, September 13, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 170 ­ Friday, September 14, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 171 ­ Saturday, September 15, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 172 ­ Monday, September 17, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 173 ­ Tuesday, September 18, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 174 ­ Wednesday, September 19, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 175 ­ Thursday, September 20, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 176 ­ Friday, September 21, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 177 ­ Saturday, September 22, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 178 ­ Monday, September 24, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 179 ­ Tuesday, September 25, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 180 ­ Wednesday, September 26, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 181 ­ Thursday, September 27, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 182 ­ Friday, September 28, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 183 ­ Saturday, September 29, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 184 ­ Monday, October 1, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 185 ­ Tuesday, October 2, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 186 ­ Wednesday, October 3, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 187 ­ Thursday, October 4, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 188 ­ Friday, October 5, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 189 ­ Saturday, October 6, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 190 ­ Monday, October 8, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 191 ­ Tuesday, October 9, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 192 ­ Wednesday, October 10, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 193 ­ Thursday, October 11, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 194 ­ Friday, October 12, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 195 ­ Saturday, October 13, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 196 ­ Monday, October 15, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 197 ­ Tuesday, October 16, 1711 ­ Budgell

No. 198 ­ Wednesday, October 17, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 199 ­ Thursday, October 18, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 200 ­ Friday, October 19, 1711 ­ Steele

No. 201 ­ Saturday, October 20, 1711 ­ Addison

No. 202 ­ Monday, October 22, 1711 ­ Steele

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Предисловие

Spectator 'the gentleman of whose assistance I formerly boasted in the Preface and concluding Leaf of my Tatlers. I am indeed much more proud of his long-continued Friendship, than I should be of the fame of being thought the author of any writings which he himself is capable of producing. I remember when I finished the Tender Husband, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished, as that we might some time or other publish a work, written by us both, which should bear the name of The Monument, in Memory of our Friendship.'

Spectator 'I heartily wish what I have done here were as honorary to that sacred name as learning, wit, and humanity render those pieces which I have taught the reader how to distinguish for his.'

Spectator Hymn on Gratitude Thy bounteous hand with worldly bliss

Has made my cup run o'er,

And in a kind and faithful Friend

Has doubled all my store?

Spectator Spectator Spectator 'I claim to myself the merit of having extorted excellent productions from a person of the greatest abilities, who would not have let them appear by any other means.'

Tatler Lying Lover Spectator 'leaving his country, when he was summoned out of it, with the secret satisfaction of thinking that he had not lived in vain.'

Drummer 'were things of this nature to be exposed to public view, I could show under the Dean's own hand, in the warmest terms, his blessing on the friendship between his son and me; nor had he a child who did not prefer me in the first place of kindness and esteem, as their father loved me like one of them.'

Tatler Spectator

Spectator

Spectator

A short account of all the Muse-possest,

That, down from Chaucer's days to Dryden's times

Have spent their noble rage in British rhymes,

... age has rusted what the Poet writ,

Worn out his language, and obscured his wit:

In vain he jests in his unpolish'd strain,

And tries to make his readers laugh in vain.

Old Spenser next, warm'd with poetic rage,

In ancient tales amused a barb'rous age;

But now the mystic tale, that pleased of yore,

Can charm an understanding age no more.

'in the neighing of an horse, or in the growling of a mastiff, there is a meaning, there is as lively expression, and, may I say, more humanity than many times in the tragical flights of Shakespeare.'

Spectator Chevy Chase Babes in the Wood Paradise Lost Spectator

Spectator Paradise Lost Paradise Lost Creation 'one of the most useful and noble productions of our English verse. The reader,' he added, of a piece which shared certainly with Salisbury Plain the charms of flatness and extent of space, 'the reader cannot but be pleased to find the depths of philosophy enlivened with all the charms of poetry, and to see so great a strength of reason amidst so beautiful a redundancy of the imagination.'

Whate'er his pen describes I more than see,

Whilst every verse, arrayed in majesty,

Bold and sublime, my whole attention draws,

And seems above the critic's nicer laws.

Oh, had the Poet ne'er profaned his pen,

To varnish o'er the guilt of faithless men;

His other works might have deserved applause

But now the language can't support the cause,

While the clean current, tho' serene and bright,

Betrays a bottom odious to the sight.

The Procession. Tatler The days of man are doom'd to pain and strife,

Quiet and ease are foreign to our life;

No satisfaction is, below, sincere,

Pleasure itself has something that's severe.

But in the thought they stopp'd, their locks they tore,

Threw down the steel, and cruelly forbore.

The innocents their parents' love forgive,

Smile at their fate, nor know they are to live.

With dread concern, the awful Senate came,

Their grief, as all their passions, is the same.

The next Assembly dissipates our fears,

The stately, mourning throng of British Peers.

Their clouded beauties speak man's gaudy strife,

The glittering miseries of human life.

She unconcerned and careless all the while

Rewards their loud applauses with a smile,

With easy Majesty and humble State

Smiles at the trifle Power, and knows its date.

What hands commit the beauteous, good, and just,

The dearer part of William, to the dust?

In her his vital heat, his glory lies,

In her the Monarch lived, in her he dies.

...

No form of state makes the Great Man forego

The task due to her love and to his woe;

Since his kind frame can't the large suffering bear

In pity to his People, he's not here:

For to the mighty loss we now receive

The next affliction were to see him grieve.

Musæ Anglicanæ anglice

'His arguments were founded upon the general pravity and corruption of men of business, who wanted liberal education. And I remember, as if I had read the letter yesterday, that my Lord ended with a compliment, that, however he might be represented as no friend to the Church, he never would do it any other injury than keeping Mr. Addison out of it.'

Campaign

Campaign Campaigns Campaign ... on classic ground.

For here the Muse so oft her harp hath strung,

That not a mountain rears its head unsung;

Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows,

And ev'ry stream in heav'nly numbers flows.

I bridle in my struggling Muse with pain,

That longs to launch into a bolder strain.

'when he mounted a war-horse, with a great sword in his hand, and planted himself behind King William III against Louis XIV, he lost the succession to a very good estate in the county of Wexford, in Ireland, from the same humour which he has preserved, ever since, of preferring the state of his mind to that of his fortune.'

Christian Hero 'He first became an author when an Ensign of the Guards, a way of life exposed to much irregularity; and being thoroughly convinced of many things, of which he often repented, and which he more often repeated, he writ, for his own private use, a little book called the Christian Hero, with a design principally to fix upon his own mind a strong impression of virtue and religion, in opposition to a stronger propensity towards unwarrantable pleasures. This secret admiration was too weak; he therefore printed the book with his name, in hopes that a standing testimony against himself, and the eyes of the world (that is to say, of his acquaintance) upon him in a new light, would make him ashamed of understanding and seeming to feel what was virtuous, and living so contrary a life.'

Spectator ... Fuit Ilium, et ingens

Gloria.

Christian Hero Tatler Spectator Tatler Spectator

Christian Hero The Funeral Grief à la Mode 'But be them honest, firm, impartial;

Let neither love, nor hate, nor faction move thee;

Distinguish words from things, and men from crimes.'

Funeral The Tender Husband The Monument 'At my first arrival I received the news of my father's death, and ever since have been engaged in so much noise and company, that it was impossible for me to think of rhyming in it.'

Campaign 'I look upon my intimacy with you as one of the most valuable enjoyments of my life. At the same time I make the town no ill compliment for their kind acceptance of this comedy, in acknowledging that it has so far raised my opinion of it, as to make me think it no improper memorial of an inviolable Friendship. I should not offer it to you as such, had I not been very careful to avoid everything that might look ill-natured, immoral, or prejudicial to what the better part of mankind hold sacred and honourable.'

Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage

Lying Lover Liar la Verdad sospechosa Menteur Biblioteca de Autores Españoles la Verdad sospechosa Menteur

Lying Lover

Menteur

Menteur Lying Lover

Conscious Lovers Cato Conscious Lovers

Drummer 'for the want of those studied similies and repartees which we, who have writ before him, have thrown into our plays, to indulge and gain upon a false taste that has prevailed for many years in the British theatre. I believe the author would have condescended to fall into this way a little more than he has, had he before the writing of it been often present at theatrical representations. I was confirmed in my thoughts of the play by the opinion of better judges to whom it was communicated, who observed that the scenes were drawn after Molière's manner, and that an easy and natural vein of humour ran through the whole. I do not question but the reader will discover this, and see many beauties that escaped the audience; the touches being too delicate for every taste in a popular assembly. My brother-sharers' (in the Drury Lane patent) 'were of opinion, at the first reading of it, that it was like a picture in which the strokes were not strong enough to appear at a distance. As it is not in the common way of writing, the approbation was at first doubtful, but has risen every time it has been acted, and has given an opportunity in several of its parts for as just and good actions as ever I saw on the stage.'

Spectator Drummer Spectator Spectator Drummer Drummer

Campaign Remarks on Italy Drummer Drummer 'He was above all men in that talent we call humour, and enjoyed it in such perfection, that I have often reflected, after a night spent with him apart from all the world, that I had had the pleasure of conversing with an intimate acquaintance of Terence and Catullus, who had all their wit and nature, heightened with humour more exquisite and delightful than any other man ever possessed.' And again in the same Preface, Steele dwelt upon 'that smiling mirth, that delicate satire and genteel raillery, which appeared in Mr. Addison when he was free from that remarkable bashfulness which is a cloak that hides and muffles merit; and his abilities were covered only by modesty, which doubles the beauties which are seen, and gives credit and esteem to all that are concealed.'

Spectator

Rosamond Arsinoe Camilla Rosamond Rosamond

Believe your Rosamond alive.

King. O happy day! O pleasing view!

My Queen forgives —

Queen. — My lord is true.

King. No more I'll change.

Queen. No more I'll grieve.

Both. But ever thus united live.

Campaign

'Let us make our regards to each other,' Steele wrote just before marriage, 'mutual and unchangeable, that whilst the world around us is enchanted with the false satisfactions of vagrant desires, our persons may be shrines to each other, and sacred to conjugal faith, unreserved confidence, and heavenly society.'

'I beg of you to shew my letters to no one living, but let us be contented with one another's thoughts upon our words and actions, without the intervention of other people, who cannot judge of so delicate a circumstance as the commerce between man and wife.'

Spectator Lady's Library 'if there are such beings as guardian angels, thus are they employed. I will no more believe one of them more good in its inclinations than I can conceive it more charming in its form than my wife.'

Spectator

Tatler Spectator Guardian Guardian Englishman

Examiner 'This was ill hinted both in relation to him and me. I know no party; but the truth of the question is what I will support as well as I can, when any man I honour is attacked.'

'whether his humours be sarcastic or polite, the friendship of Steele and Addison is for ever suggesting some annoyance to himself, some mortification, some regret, but never once the doubt that it was not intimate and sincere, or that into it entered anything inconsistent with a perfect equality.'

Theatre 'that there never was a more strict friendship than between himself and Addison, nor had they ever any difference but what proceeded from their different way of pursuing the same thing; the one waited and stemmed the torrent, while the other too often plunged into it; but though they thus had lived for some years past, shunning each other, they still preserved the most passionate concern for their mutual welfare; and when they met they were as unreserved as boys, and talked of the greatest affairs, upon which they saw where they differed, without pressing (what they knew impossible) to convert each other.'

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Spectator Spectator Tatler Tatler Review Spectator Tender Husband

News-Writers Petty-Statesmen 'After our Serious Matters are over, we shall at the end of every Paper, Present you with a little Diversion, as anything occurs to make the World Merry; and whether Friend or Foe, one Party or another, if anything happens so scandalous as to require an open Reproof, the World may meet with it there.'

Tatlers Spectators Mercure Scandale:

or,

Advice from the Scandalous Club.

Translated out of French.

This Society is a Corporation long since established in Paris, and we cannot compleat our Advices from France, without entertaining the World with everything we meet with from that Country.

And, tho Corresponding with the Queens Enemies is prohibited; yet since the Matter will be so honest, as only to tell the World of what everybody will own to be scandalous, we reckon we shall be welcome.

This Corporation has been set up some months, and opend their first Sessions about last Bartholomew Fair; but having not yet obtaind a Patent, they have never, till now, made their Resolves publick.

The Business of this Society is to censure the Actions of Men, not of Parties, and in particular, those Actions which are made publick so by their Authors, as to be, in their own Nature, an Appeal to the general Approbation.

They do not design to expose Persons but things; and of them, none but such as more than ordinarily deserve it; they who would not be censurd by this Assembly, are desired to act with caution enough, not to fall under their Hands; for they resolve to treat Vice, and Villanous Actions, with the utmost Severity.

The First considerable Matter that came before this Society, was about Bartholomew Fair; but the Debates being long, they were at last adjourned to the next Fair, when we suppose it will be decided; so being not willing to trouble the World with anything twice over, we refer that to next August.

On the 10th of September last, there was a long Hearing, before the Club, of a Fellow that said he had killd the Duke of Bavaria. Now as David punishd the Man that said he had killd King Saul, whether it was so or no, twas thought this Fellow ought to be delivered up to Justice, tho the Duke of Bavaria was alive.

Upon the whole, twas voted a scandalous Thing, That News. Writers shoud kill Kings and Princes, and bring them to life again at pleasure; and to make an Example of this Fellow, he was dismissd, upon Condition he should go to the Queens-bench once a Day, and bear Fuller, his Brother of the Faculty, company two hours for fourteen Days together; which cruel Punishment was executed with the utmost Severity.

The Club has had a great deal of trouble about the News-Writers, who have been continually brought before them for their ridiculous Stories, and imposing upon Mankind; and tho the Proceedings have been pretty tedious, we must give you the trouble of a few of them in our next.

Mercure Scandale Advice from the Scandalous Club. 'We have been so often on the Defence of our Title,' says Defoe, in No. 38, 'that the world begins to think Our Society wants Employment ... If Scandalous must signify nothing but Personal Scandal, respecting the Subject of which it is predicated; we desire those gentlemen to answer for us how Post-Man or Post-Boy can signify a News-Paper, the Post Man or Post Boy being in all my reading properly and strictly applicable, not to the Paper, but to the Person bringing or carrying the News? Mercury also is, if I understand it, by a Transmutation of Meaning, from a God turned into a Book — From hence our Club thinks they have not fair Play, in being deny'd the Privilege of making an Allegory as well as other People.'

Advice from the Scandal Club Tatler Spectator Spectator Monthly Supplementary Journal Advice from the Scandal Club Tatler Spectator Review Monthly Supplement 'care but for a little reading at a time,' and said, 'thus we wheedle them in, if it may be allow'd that Expression, to the Knowledge of the World, who rather than take more Pains, would be content with their Ignorance, and search into nothing.'

Tatler 'wit, if a man had it, unless it be directed to some useful end, is but a wanton, frivolous quality; all that one should value himself upon in this kind is that he had some honourable intention in it.'

Tatler 'on the 29th of March next, about eleven at night, of a raging fever.'

'The Accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions: being an account of the death of Mr. Partridge, the almanack-maker, upon the 29th instant.'

'whereas it has been industriously given out by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq., and others, to prevent the sale of this year's almanack, that John Partridge is dead, this may inform all his loving countrymen that he is still living, in health, and they are knaves that reported it otherwise.'

Tatler Tatler 'I have in another place, and in a paper by itself, sufficiently convinced this man that he is dead; and if he has any shame, I do not doubt but that by this time he owns it to all his acquaintance. For though the legs and arms and whole body of that man may still appear and perform their animal functions, yet since, as I have elsewhere observed, his art is gone, the man is gone.'

Tatler 'we have a contempt,' he says, 'for such paltry barterers, and have therefore all along informed the public that we intend to give them our advices for our own sakes, and are labouring to make our lucubrations come to some price in money, for our more convenient support in the service of the public. It is certain that many other schemes have been proposed to me, as a friend offered to show me in a treatise he had writ, which he called, The whole Art of Life; or, The Introduction to Great Men, illustrated in a Pack of Cards. But being a novice at all manner of play, I declined the offer.'

Tatler Spectator Guardian Tatler Spectator Guardian Tatler Spectator Guardian Tatler

Tatlers Spectators

The Present State of Wit, in a Letter to a Friend in the Country Spectator Tatler "Before I proceed further in the account of our weekly papers, it will be necessary to inform you that at the beginning of the winter, to the infinite surprise of all the Town, Mr. Steele flung up his Tatler, and instead of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esquire, subscribed himself Richard Steele to the last of those papers, after a handsome compliment to the Town for their kind acceptance of his endeavours to divert them.

The chief reason he thought fit to give for his leaving off writing was, that having been so long looked on in all public places and companies as the Author of those papers, he found that his most intimate friends and acquaintance were in pain to speak or act before him.

The Town was very far from being satisfied with this reason, and most people judged the true cause to be, either

Что он был совершенно истощен и ему не хватало материала, чтобы продолжать свое предприятие; или

Что он прекратил его в знак своего рода покорности правительству и примирения с ним за некоторые прошлые проступки; или, наконец,

Что он пожелал сменить облик и предстать в новом свете.

However that were, his disappearance seemed to be bewailed as some general calamity. Every one wanted so agreeable an amusement, and the Coffee-houses began to be sensible that the Esquire's Lucubrations alone had brought them more customers than all their other newspapers put together.

It must indeed be confessed that never man threw up his pen, under stronger temptations to have employed it longer. His reputation was at a greater height, than I believe ever any living author's was before him. It is reasonable to suppose that his gains were proportionably considerable. Every one read him with pleasure and good-will; and the Tories, in respect to his other good qualities, had almost forgiven his unaccountable imprudence in declaring against them.

Lastly, it was highly improbable that, if he threw off a Character, the ideas of which were so strongly impressed in every one's mind, however finely he might write in any new form, that he should meet with the same reception.

To give you my own thoughts of this gentleman's writings I shall, in the first place, observe, that there is a noble difference between him and all the rest of our gallant and polite authors. The latter have endeavoured to please the Age by falling in with them, and encouraging them in their fashionable vices and false notions of things. It would have been a jest, some time since, for a man to have asserted that anything witty could be said in praise of a married state, or that Devotion and Virtue were any way necessary to the character of a Fine Gentleman. Bickerstaff ventured to tell the Town that they were a parcel of fops, fools, and coquettes; but in such a manner as even pleased them, and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth.

Instead of complying with the false sentiments or vicious tastes of the Age — either in morality, criticism, or good breeding — he has boldly assured them that they were altogether in the wrong; and commanded them, with an authority which perfectly well became him, to surrender themselves to his arguments for Virtue and Good Sense.

It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had on the Town; how many thousand follies they have either quite banished or given a very great check to; how much countenance they have added to Virtue and Religion; how many people they have rendered happy, by shewing them it was their own fault if they were not so; and, lastly, how entirely they have convinced our young fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of Learning.

He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable and lovely to all mankind. In the dress he gives it, it is a most welcome guest at tea-tables and assemblies, and is relished and caressed by the merchants on the Change. Accordingly there is not a Lady at Court, nor a Banker in Lombard Street, who is not verily persuaded that Captain Steele is the greatest scholar and best Casuist of any man in England.

Lastly, his writings have set all our Wits and men of letters on a new way of thinking, of which they had little or no notion before: and, although we cannot say that any of them have come up to the beauties of the original, I think we may venture to affirm, that every one of them writes and thinks much more justly than they did some time since.

The vast variety of subjects which Mr. Steele has treated of, in so different manners, and yet all so perfectly well, made the World believe that it was impossible they should all come from the same hand. This set every one upon guessing who was the Esquire's friend? and most people at first fancied it must be Doctor Swift; but it is now no longer a secret, that his only great and constant assistant was Mr. Addison.

This is that excellent friend to whom Mr. Steele owes so much; and who refuses to have his name set before those pieces, which the greatest pens in England would be proud to own. Indeed, they could hardly add to this Gentleman's reputation: whose works in Latin and English poetry long since convinced the World, that he was the greatest Master in Europe in those two languages.

I am assured, from good hands, that all the visions, and other tracts of that way of writing, with a very great number of the most exquisite pieces of wit and raillery through the Lucubrations are entirely of this Gentleman's composing: which may, in some measure, account for that different Genius, which appears in the winter papers, from those of the summer; at which time, as the Examiner often hinted, this friend of Mr. Steele was in Ireland.

Mr. Steele confesses in his last Volume of the Tatlers that he is obliged to Dr. Swift for his Town Shower, and the Description of the Morn, with some other hints received from him in private conversation.

I have also heard that several of those Letters, which came as from unknown hands, were written by Mr. Henley: which is an answer to your query, 'Who those friends are whom Mr. Steele speaks of in his last Tatler?'

But to proceed with my account of our other papers. The expiration of Bickerstaff's Lucubrations was attended with much the same consequences as the death of Meliboeus's Ox in Virgil: as the latter engendered swarms of bees, the former immediately produced whole swarms of little satirical scribblers.

One of these authors called himself the Growler, and assured us that, to make amends for Mr. Steele's silence, he was resolved to growl at us weekly, as long as we should think fit to give him any encouragement. Another Gentleman, with more modesty, called his paper the Whisperer; and a third, to please the Ladies, christened his the Tell tale.

At the same-time came out several Tatlers; each of which, with equal truth and wit, assured us that he was the genuine Isaac Bickerstaff.

It may be observed that when the Esquire laid down his pen; though he could not but foresee that several scribblers would soon snatch it up, which he might (one would think) easily have prevented: he scorned to take any further care about it, but left the field fairly open to any worthy successor. Immediately, some of our Wits were for forming themselves into a Club, headed by one Mr. Harrison, and trying how they could shoot in this Bow of Ulysses; but soon found that this sort of writing requires so fine and particular a manner of thinking, with so exact a knowledge of the World, as must make them utterly despair of success.

They seemed indeed at first to think that what was only the garnish of the former Tatlers, was that which recommended them; and not those Substantial Entertainments which they everywhere abound in. According they were continually talking of their Maid, Night Cap, Spectacles, and Charles Lillie. However there were, now and then, some faint endeavours at Humour and sparks of Wit: which the Town, for want of better entertainment, was content to hunt after through a heap of impertinences; but even those are, at present, become wholly invisible and quite swallowed up in the blaze of the Spectator.

You may remember, I told you before, that one cause assigned for the laying down the Tatler was, Want of Matter; and, indeed, this was the prevailing opinion in Town: when we were surprised all at once by a paper called the Spectator, which was promised to be continued every day; and was written in so excellent a style, with so nice a judgment, and such a noble profusion of wit and humour, that it was not difficult to determine it could come from no other hands but those which had penned the Lucubrations.

This immediately alarmed these gentlemen, who, as it is said Mr. Steele phrases it, had 'the Censorship in Commission.' They found the new Spectator came on like a torrent, and swept away all before him. They despaired ever to equal him in wit, humour, or learning; which had been their true and certain way of opposing him: and therefore rather chose to fall on the Author; and to call out for help to all good Christians, by assuring them again and again that they were the First, Original, True, and undisputed Isaac Bickerstaff.

Meanwhile, the Spectator, whom we regard as our Shelter from that flood of false wit and impertinence which was breaking in upon us, is in every one's hands; and a constant for our morning conversation at tea-tables and coffee-houses. We had at first, indeed, no manner of notion how a diurnal paper could be continued in the spirit and style of our present Spectators: but, to our no small surprise, we find them still rising upon us, and can only wonder from whence so prodigious a run of Wit and Learning can proceed; since some of our best judges seem to think that they have hitherto, in general, outshone even the Esquire's first Tatlers.

Most people fancy, from their frequency, that they must be composed by a Society: I withal assign the first places to Mr. Steele and his Friend.

Tatlers Spectators Spectator

Spectator Essay on Criticism, Spectator Messiah

'Taking care,' it is said, 'not to alarm the country gentlemen by any premature mention of antiquities, he endeavoured at first to allure them into the more flowery paths of literature. In 1709 a few of them were brought together every post-day at the coffee-house in the Abbey Yard; and after one of the party had read aloud the last published number of the Tatler, they proceeded to talk over the subject among themselves.'

'the gentlemen met after church on Sunday to discuss the news of the week; the Spectators were read as regularly as the Journal.'

Tatler 'so ambitious to be thought worse than he is that in his degree of understanding he sets up for a free-thinker, and talks atheistically in coffee-houses all day, though every morning and evening, it can be proved upon him, he regularly at home says his prayers.'

Spectator Guardian Guardian Englishman Examiner The Crisis

Spectator Spectator Spectator's Spectator

Spectator Cato

Freeholder

Plebeian Old Whig

Theatre The Conscious Lovers Spectator 'he retained his cheerful sweetness of temper to the last; and would often be carried out, of a summer's evening, where the country lads and lasses were assembled at their rural sports, — and, with his pencil, gave an order on his agent, the mercer, for a new gown to the best dancer.'

Spectator Reliques of Ancient Poetry Chambers's Cyclopædia

Tatler Spectator Guardian Tatler Tatler Tatler Spectator Spectator Spectator

Spectator parts arts the appellation to have seen to see with between

precisely the amount and character of the revision

Предложения, добавленные в переиздании, напечатаны коричневым цветом без каких-либо примечаний.

Предложения, которые были опущены, или слова, которые были изменены, показаны путем печати исправленной версии коричневым цветом, а текст в том виде, в каком он был в оригинальном ежедневном выпуске, приведен в сноске 1.

Spectator Essays Spectator

Поскольку немногие различия между правильным написанием во времена королевы Анны и правильным написанием сегодня никогда не бывают такими, чтобы затемнить смысл слова или уменьшить удовольствие читателя, было решено сделать воспроизведение идеальным и, таким образом, показать не только то, что написали Стиль и Аддисон, но и то, как они писали,

одновременно восстанавливая в их стиле надлежащую гармонию их собственных методов пунктуации,

и их манеру иногда придавать выразительность за счет использования заглавных букв, что в их руках не было полностью условным.

Оригинальные номера фолио были соблюдены также при использовании курсива

и других мелких деталей расположения шрифта; например, при воспроизведении тех рядов одиночных перевернутых запятых, которые отличают то, что корреспондент назвал частями, «обшитыми по бокам маленькими c». [Эта последняя деталь форматирования не была воспроизведена в данном файле. Ред. html]

Перевод девизов и латинских цитат, которые Стиль и Аддисон намеренно не приводили и которые, будучи добавленными позже, затрудняют, а иногда сбивают с толку и противоречат тексту, здесь помещены в отдельный блок в конце для тех, кому они нужны.

Homer Spectator Essay on Criticism.

Таким образом, девизы помещены в Приложении.

Имеется также небольшое Приложение с рекламными объявлениями, взятыми из оригинального номера «Зрителя», а несколько других, где они, по-видимому, иллюстрируют какой-либо момент в тексте, можно найти среди примечаний.

Наконец, из Общего указателя к «Зрителям» и т. д., опубликованного отдельным томом в 1760 году, было взято все полезное, и к нему были сделаны дополнения с желанием обеспечить для этого издания «Зрителя» преимущества удобства для справок, а также верность подлинному тексту.

Footnote 1: Athenaeum Selections from Addison

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Оригинальное посвящение

To The Right Honourable

John Lord Sommers,

Baron Of Evesham1.

My Lord,

Greece Rome Europe

I am,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's

Most Obedient,

Most Devoted

Humble Servant,

The Spectator.

Footnote 1: 'If you, well pleas'd, shall smile upon my lays,

Secure of fame, my voice I'll boldly raise,

For next to what you write, is what you praise.'

Essays

the Spectator

'He had traversed the whole vast range of polite literature, ancient and modern. He was at once a munificent and a severely judicious patron of genius and learning. Locke owed opulence to Somers. By Somers Addison was drawn forth from a cell in a college. In distant countries the name of Somers was mentioned with respect and gratitude by great scholars and poets who had never seen his face. He was the benefactor of Leclerc. He was the friend of Filicaja. Neither political nor religious differences prevented him from extending his powerful protection to merit. Hickes, the fiercest and most intolerant of all the non-jurors, obtained, by the influence of Somers, permission to study Teutonic antiquities in freedom and safety. Vertue, a Strict Roman Catholic, was raised, by the discriminating and liberal patronage of Somers, from poverty and obscurity to the first rank among the engravers of the age.'

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Thursday, March 1, 1711

Аддисон

Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem

Cogitat, ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat.

Hor.

I according to the tradition of the village where it lies, 1 William Years runs 2

that my parts were solid, and would wear well

An Europe in which 3 Egypt Grand Cairo 4

There general 5 Will's 6 Sometimes Child's 7 Post-Man 8 I Sunday St. James's 9 My Grecian 10 Cocoa-Tree 11 Drury Lane Hay-Market 12 have Exchange Jew Jonathan's 13

There pain is 14

However To the Spectator Buckley's Little Britain 15 I Tuesdays Thursdays

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Footnote 4: Pyramidographia Spectator The Origine and Antiquity of our English Weights and Measures discovered by their near agreement with such Standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian Pyramids. Pyramidographia

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Footnote 6: Will's Red Cow Rose Spectator

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Footnote 7: Child's Child's

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Footnote 8: Postman Life and Errors, 'the Observator is best to towel the Jacks, the Review is best to promote peace, the Flying Post is best for the Scotch news, the Postboy is best for the English and Spanish news, the Daily Courant is the best critic, the English Post is the best collector, the London Gazette has the best authority, and the Postman is the best for everything.'

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Footnote 9: St. James's

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Footnote 10: Grecian

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Footnote 11: Cocoa Tree St. James's

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Footnote 12: Jew of Malta, New Way to Pay Old Debts, Drury Lane Theatre Prologue the Spectator the Spectator's

The Provoked Wife, Haymarket Theatre The Confederacy, Drury Lane Drury Lane Haymarket Haymarket Drury Lane Haymarket Drury Lane Haymarket Haymarket Drury Lane The Fair Quaker of Deal. Drury Lane Haymarket

Drury Lane Haymarket Spectator Drury Lane Haymarket

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Footnote 13: Jonathan's Garraway's

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Footnote 15: The Spectator 'Printed for Sam. Buckley, at the Dolphin in Little Britain; and sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane.'

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Friday, March 2, 1711

Стиль

... Ast Alii sex

Et plures uno conclamant ore.

Juv.

The Worcestershire Roger De Coverly. 1 Roger When Soho Square 2 Before Roger Rochester 3 George Etherege 4 Dawson 5 Roger Roger Quorum

Inner Temple Aristotle Longinus Littleton Cooke Demosthenes Tully He New Inn Russel Court Will's 6

Andrew Freeport London British Common Andrew England

Next Andrew Sentry 7 Roger

But Will. Honeycomb 8 Monmouth Park 'He has good Blood in his Veins, Tom Mirabell begot him, the Rogue cheated me in that Affair; that young Fellow's Mother used me more like a Dog than any Woman I ever made Advances to.'

These

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Footnote 4: The Comical Revenge, She Would if she Could, The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter,

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Footnote 5: The Squire of Alsatia.

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Footnote 6: Rose Rose

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Footnote 7: Royal George

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Thursday, March 1, 1711

Аддисон

Quoi quisque ferè studio devinctus adhæret:

Aut quibus in rebus multùm sumus antè morati:

Atque in quâ ratione fuit contenta magis mens;

In somnis eadem plerumque videmur obire.

Lucr. L. 4.

In 1

Publick Credit At Magna Charta 2 3 4 5

Lydian

It 6 The Rehearsal 7

Et neq; jam color est misto candore rubori;

Nec Vigor, et Vires, et quæ modò visa placebant;

Nec Corpus remanet ...

Ov. Met. Lib. 3.

The 8 Great Britain At 9

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Footnote 2: Magna Charta Libertatum

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Footnote 7: Rehearsal Rehearsal 'Well, Sir, then what do I, but make the earth, sun, and moon, come out upon the stage, and dance the hey' ... 'Come, come out, eclipse, to the tune of Tom Tyler.'

Enter Luna.

Luna: Orbis, O Orbis! Come to me, thou little rogue, Orbis!

Enter the Earth.

Orb.: Who calls Terra-firma pray?

...

Enter Sol, to the tune of Robin Hood, &c.

While they dance Bayes cries, mightily taken with his device,

'Now the Earth's before the Moon; now the Moon's before the Sun: there's the Eclipse again.'

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Footnote 9: 'from this time loans were made of a vast increasing amount with great facility, and generally at a low interest, by which the nation were enabled to resist their enemies. The French wondered at the prodigious efforts that were made by so small a power, and the abundance with which money was poured into its treasury... Books were written, projects drawn up, edicts prepared, which were to give to France the same facilities as her rival; every plan that fiscal ingenuity could strike out, every calculation that laborious arithmetic could form, was proposed, and tried, and found wanting; and for this simple reason, that in all their projects drawn up in imitation of England, one little element was omitted, videlicet, her free constitution.'

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Monday, March 5, 1711

Стиль

.. Egregii Mortalem altique silenti!

Hor.

in anything

I am never less alone than when alone There did the other day, 1 That strange Fellow,

I have known the Fellow's Face for these twelve Years, and so must you; but I believe you are the first ever asked who he was.

what-d-ye-call-him

Will. Honeycomb The Will young thing 2 'I am quite of another Opinion: She has, I will allow, a very pleasing Aspect, but, methinks, that Simplicity in her Countenance is rather childish than innocent.'

'I grant her Dress is very becoming, but perhaps the Merit of Choice is owing to her Mother; for though,' continued he, 'I allow a Beauty to be as much to be commended for the Elegance of her Dress, as a Wit for that of his Language; yet if she has stolen the Colour of her Ribbands from another, or had Advice about her Trimmings, I shall not allow her the Praise of Dress, any more than I would call a Plagiary an Author.'

Will according to his romantic imagination 'Behold, you who dare, that charming Virgin. Behold the Beauty of her Person chastised by the Innocence of her Thoughts. Chastity, Good-Nature, and Affability, are the Graces that play in her Countenance; she knows she is handsome, but she knows she is good. Conscious Beauty adorned with conscious Virtue! What a Spirit is there in those Eyes! What a Bloom in that Person! How is the whole Woman expressed in her Appearance! Her Air has the Beauty of Motion, and her Look the Force of Language.'

Works Tea-Table Talk

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Tuesday, March 6, 1711

Аддисон

Spectatum admissi risum teneatis?

Hor.

Charles's Nicolini Flanders

in

This Martin Mar-all 1 New River In Rinaldo 2 insure

Armida Amazonian Cassani Persons represented Mago Christiano Amazon good for such is the part of the magician

Italian Eccoti, benigno Lettore, un Parto di poche Sere, che se ben nato di Notte, non è però aborto di Tenebre, mà si farà conoscere Figlio d'Apollo con qualche Raggio di Parnasso.

Behold, gentle Reader, the Birth of a few Evenings, which, tho' it be the Offspring of the Night, is not the Abortive of Darkness, but will make it self known to be the Son of Apollo, with a certain Ray of Parnassus.

He Hendel 3 Orpheus Italians Italians Cicero Virgil English Italians Boileau Virgil Clincant Tasso

Whittington Rich And Germany 4

Before London Wise 5 Rinaldo Armida

Footnote 1: Sir Martin Mar-all L'Amour sous sa Loi 'A pretty-humoured song — but stay, methinks he plays and sings still, and yet we cannot hear him — Play louder, Sir Martin, that we may have the Fruits on't.'

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Footnote 2: Jerusalem Delivered Rinaldo Cara sposa Lascia ch'io pianga Hamlet Ambleto

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Footnote 4: 'Hamelin town's in Brunswick,

By famous Hanover city;

The river Weser, deep and wide,

Washes its wall on the southern side.'

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Footnote 5: Complete Gardener

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Wednesday, March 7, 1711

Стиль

Credebant hoc grande Nefas, et Morte piandum,

Si Juvenis Vetulo non assurrexerat ....

Juv.

Roger Scarecrow Lincoln's-Inn-Fields Scarecrow

Richard Blackmore It is a mighty Dishonour and Shame to employ excellent Faculties and abundance of Wit, to humour and please Men in their Vices and Follies. The great Enemy of Mankind, notwithstanding his Wit and Angelick Faculties, is the most odious Being in the whole Creation He to rescue the Muses out of the Hands of Ravishers Employment suitable to their Dignity 1

England

'It happen'd at Athens, during a publick Representation of some Play exhibited in honour of the Common-wealth that an old Gentleman came too late for a Place suitable to his Age and Quality. Many of the young Gentlemen who observed the Difficulty and Confusion he was in, made Signs to him that they would accommodate him if he came where they sate: The good Man bustled through the Crowd accordingly; but when he came to the Seats to which he was invited, the Jest was to sit close, and expose him, as he stood out of Countenance, to the whole Audience. The Frolick went round all the Athenian Benches. But on those Occasions there were also particular Places assigned for Foreigners: When the good Man skulked towards the Boxes appointed for the Lacedemonians, that honest People, more virtuous than polite, rose up all to a Man, and with the greatest Respect received him among them. The Athenians being suddenly touched with a Sense of the Spartan Virtue, and their own Degeneracy, gave a Thunder of Applause; and the old Man cry'd out, The Athenians understand what is good, but the Lacedemonians practise it.'

Footnote 1: Creation

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Thursday, March 8, 1711

Аддисон

Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, Sagas,

Nocturnos lemures, portentaque Thessala rides?

Hor.

My dear, says she, turning to her husband, you may now see the Stranger that was in the Candle last Night.

Thursday Thursday, says she, no, Child, if it please God, you shall not begin upon Childermas-day; tell your Writing-Master that Friday will be soon enough.

My Dear, Misfortunes never come Single.

Do not you remember, Child, says she, that the Pidgeon-House fell the very Afternoon that our careless Wench spilt the Salt upon the Table?

Yes, says he, my Dear, and the next Post brought us an Account of the Battel of Almanza1.

I quitting 2

There which 3

This who 4

Sybils

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Friday, March 9, 1711

Аддисон

At Venus obscuro gradientes ære sepsit,

Et multo Nebulæ circum Dea fudit amictu,

Cernere ne quis eos ...

Virg.

I him 1

'To the Spectator, &c.

Sir,

I am one of the Directors of the Society for the Reformation of Manners, and therefore think myself a proper Person for your Correspondence. I have thoroughly examined the present State of Religion in Great-Britain, and am able to acquaint you with the predominant Vice of every Market-Town in the whole Island. I can tell you the Progress that Virtue has made in all our Cities, Boroughs, and Corporations; and know as well the evil Practices that are committed in Berwick or Exeter, as what is done in my own Family. In a Word, Sir, I have my Correspondents in the remotest Parts of the Nation, who send me up punctual Accounts from time to time of all the little Irregularities that fall under their Notice in their several Districts and Divisions.

I am no less acquainted with the particular Quarters and Regions of this great Town, than with the different Parts and Distributions of the whole Nation. I can describe every Parish by its Impieties, and can tell you in which of our Streets Lewdness prevails, which Gaming has taken the Possession of, and where Drunkenness has got the better of them both. When I am disposed to raise a Fine for the Poor, I know the Lanes and Allies that are inhabited by common Swearers. When I would encourage the Hospital of Bridewell, and improve the Hempen Manufacture, I am very well acquainted with all the Haunts and Resorts of Female Night-walkers.

After this short Account of my self, I must let you know, that the Design of this Paper is to give you Information of a certain irregular Assembly which I think falls very properly under your Observation, especially since the Persons it is composed of are Criminals too considerable for the Animadversions of our Society. I mean, Sir, the Midnight Masque, which has of late been frequently held in one of the most conspicuous Parts of the Town, and which I hear will be continued with Additions and Improvements. As all the Persons who compose this lawless Assembly are masqued, we dare not attack any of them in our Way, lest we should send a Woman of Quality to Bridewell, or a Peer of Great-Britain to the Counter: Besides, that their Numbers are so very great, that I am afraid they would be able to rout our whole Fraternity, tho' we were accompanied with all our Guard of Constables. Both these Reasons which secure them from our Authority, make them obnoxious to yours; as both their Disguise and their Numbers will give no particular Person Reason to think himself affronted by you.

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