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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
THE SPECTATOR CLUB.
PAGE
vii
The Spectator introduces himself to the reader ....
The Spectator Club: Sir Roger de Coverley, the Templar, Sir
Andrew Freeport, Captain Sentry, Will Honeycomb, the
Clergyman.
Members of the Club discuss the Spectator's papers.
1
5
10
Will Honeycomb's dislike of pedantry leads the Spectator to mor-
alize on this subject.....
14
SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY.
The Spectator's observations at Sir Roger's country-house....
The Coverley household: Sir Roger's treatment of his servants ..
The Spectator describes Will Wimble, whom he meets at Sir
Roger's
Sir Roger's account of his ancestors
Ghosts and haunted houses..
Sunday in the country: Sir Roger at church
31
Sir Roger in love
34
Exercise the best means of preserving health: Sir Roger as a
hunter.
The Spectator accompanies Sir Roger to the hunting-field......
The Spectator discusses witchcraft: with Sir Roger he visits
Moll White.....
Sir Roger at the assizes
48
Sir Roger tells a story of his boyhood, which leads the Spectator
The Spectator sees reasons why he had better return to town ....
Sir Roger in town
Sir Roger visits Westminster Abbey.
Sir Roger goes to the play
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Sir Roger and the Spectator go by water to the Vauxhall Gardens 75
The death of Sir Roger..
78
EDITORIAL.
The Spectator commends his papers to sundry classes of men, and
especially to women
.......
Large books versus pamphlets and newspapers
The Spectator imagines himself described by an antiquarian of a
future age..
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86
Effect of the newly-imposed stamp duty on periodical publica-
tions. The Spectator defends his non-partisan course.....
The Spectator defends the raised price.
Precedence in literature
A friend of mankind brought to grief by an alchemist.
138
The Tatler explains whom he means by the expression "dead
Contemplation of the divine perfections suggested by the sky at
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MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON .. 227
NOTES TO THE SELECT ESSAYS OF ADDISON.
NOTES TO MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON ADDISON
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