[The text of this volume is printed from a copy of the 1715 duodecimo edition, in the possession of the Editor.] NOTES THE Spectator proper concluded with No. 555 in the seventh volume, Dedica where Steele bade farewell to his readers. After an interval of eighteen tion, months, Addison 'opened' Mr. Spectator's mouth, and addressed the old public in the following papers. These supplementary essays appeared on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The series ran to but eighty numbers, and Addison and his bookseller were careful to inform the public that it, with the earlier "constellation" of " seven stars," completed the tale of the gossip of the Spectator Club. In the present volume there are not a few examples of the happy humour which characterises the previous volumes, but the general tone is too moralistic and didactic, and probably proved too dull for the teatables which had been taught to enjoy the "janty Air and easy Motion" of the earlier numbers. The dedication of this volume to the imaginary William Honeycomb, Esq., instead of to a real patron, as in all the other volumes, is at once Addison's pleasing homage to his happy collaboration with Steele, and a proclamation of the true lineage and blood-relationship of this posthumous child. PAGE 5. Motto. Virgil, Æn. ii. 471-5. Opening my mouth. In the preceding volumes Mr. Spectator is drawn as possessed of a remarkable "taciturnity.” See note, vol. i. p. 309. Croesus. Herodotus, I. lxxxv. PAGE 6. Button's. The famous Covent Garden Coffee-house established by Addison's old servant Daniel Button was much frequented by the contributors to the Spectator, notably Philips, Tickell, Budgell, and Carey. It was the receiving-office for papers intended for the Guardian, and it was there that Ambrose Philips (according to a lively tradition) affixed the rod which was to chastise Pope for his unfriendly article in that paper. Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. The Englishman was Steele's Whig continuation of the The Examiner was the Tory organ to which Swift contributed. PAGE 7. Nil fuit, etc. Horace, Sat. I. iii. 18. The text reads 'Sic impar.' "But, - Jew at Jonathan's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 8. A most unnatural ferment. An allusion to the excited political condition during this month, caused by the fears of the Queen's early demise. Thomas Harley writes next day to Swift seriously, you never heard such bellowing about the town of the state of the nation, especially among the sharpers, sellers of bearskins [stock-jobbers], and the rest of that kind; nor such crying No, 556, No, 556, and squalling among the ladies; insomuch that it has at last reached the House of Commons; which I am sorry for, because it is hot and uneasy sitting there in this season of the year." (See Swift's Correspondence.) No. 557. PAGE 8. Motto. Virgil, Æn. i. 665. PAGE 9. British Preacher. Tillotson, 'Of Sincerity towards God and Man.' The Spectator persistently uses the words 'British' and Britain,' and this rather extreme application to the great Anglican divine gives point to the protests of Swift and Prior. PAGE 10. Ambassador of Bantam. Cf. the Letter of the Indian King, vol. i. No. 50 (and note). PAGE 12. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. i. 1-19. No. 558, No. 559. PAGE 15. PAGE 20. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. i. 20-2. The famous Conjuror. Duncan Campbell. See B.I. Speaking Head. See Mr. A. W. Ward's Introduction to Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (p. xxv.). No. 561. PAGE 21. No. 562, No. 563, No. 564, No. 566. No. 568. PAGE 23. Motto. Virgil, Æn. i. 724-6. Pictures of their deceased Husbands. A humorous reference to the portraits of the Kit-Cat Club (see vol. i. p. 317). PAGE 24. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, I. ii. 112. Cowley. The opening passage of the essay 'Of Myself.' Cowley's text reads 'for a man to write of himself.' PAGE 25. The Gentlemen of Port Royal. ... Egotism. This would PAGE 26. Scaliger. "Monsieur de Montagnes. Son Père estoit ven- Cf. Tatler, No. 119 -Huygenius. The Dutch natural philosopher Christian Huygens van Zuylichem. PAGE 38. Motto. Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 233. PAGE 42. PAGE 44. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 493. An M and an h etc. 'Marlborough' and 'Treasurer.' Motto. Martial, Epigr. I. xxxviii. 2. PAGE 46. The Whole Duty of Man. See vol. i. p. 330. By 'J. F.' No. 568, (Bishop Fell, infra): but the authorship is undetermined. (See Boswell's 'Johnson' (ed. Birkbeck Hill, ii. 239).) PAGE 47. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 434-6. Whets. See note, vol. i. p. 343. Also vol. iii. p. 200. PAGE 49. Publilius Syrus 3.-'Absentem laedit, cum ebrio qui litigat.' No, 569. No. 570, Cetera de genere, etc. Horace, Sat. I. i. 13-14. PAGE 50. Master of the House. Mr. Daintry. See B.I. PAGE 51. - Motto. Charles Mathers. Ante, vols. v. p. 28, vii. p. 109. See B.I. ? PAGE 52. A Former Spectator-i.e. No. 565. Cf. also Nos. 590, and 628. PAGE 55. Seneca, Epist. xli. 2. - If a man love, etc. John xiv. 23. PAGE 56. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. i. 115-6. PAGE 58. Essay against Quacks. Cf. No. 444, vol. vi. p. 170. Fotus = fomentation. No. 571, 580, PAGE 59. Mr. Dryden's Translation. Æneis, xii. 585-597, 607-633. Chalmers repeats an editorial tradition that this paper was written by Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and was altered by Addison. See note to No. 633. No. 572. The Persian Tales. Another puff of Ambrose Philips, whose Thousand and One Days' Persian Tales, translated from the PAGE 83. Motto. Virgil, Æn. iv. 132. No. 579, PAGE 86. Motto. Ovid, Metam. i. 175-6. No. 580, Two Last Letters. See Nos. 565 and 571, and note on p. 52. PAGE 90. Motto. Martial, Epigr. i. 16. No. 581. PAGE 92. Passages in a Lover. Steele's Lover, written in imitation of the Tatler, by Marmaduke Myrtle, Gent., ran to 40 numbers (25th Feb. to 27th May 1714). PAGE 93. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. vii. 51-2. No, 582, PAGE 95. William Ramsey's Vindication of Astrology. William Ramsey or Ramesey was the author of several works, including Lux Veritatis; or Christian Judicial Astrology Vindicated, 1651. The letter in this number is ascribed to John Byrom (see B.I.). |