No. 132. No. 133. No. 134. No. 135. No. 136. Pieces of Wit and Raillery throughout the Lucubrations, are intirely 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's was in Ireland." Was Addison on holiday, or indisposed, or was he in Ireland looking after his threatened interests? PAGE 183. The Right we had of taking Place etc., a contentious question which naturally arose from the bad condition of the highways. Cf. the pedestrian_worry about 'taking the wall,' humorously introduced in the Tatler (No. 256). PAGE 184. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xxiv. 1-2. PAGE 185. These instances. Plutarch's Life of Phocion. The PAGE 186. A friend. Stephen Clay of the Inner Temple, son of PAGE 190. Manage our snuff-boxes. The sequel is in No. 138. PAGE 192. One of the greatest geniuses. This reference to Swift "the is an interesting clue to the origin of Addison's paper. Swift, in a letter in the Tatler (No. 230, 27th Sept. 1710), exposes corruption of our style," and gives a sample letter showing the fashionable "abbreviations and elisions." He also discusses the "refinement" of giving but the first syllable of a word, taking as examples from the said letter the words mob, rep, pozz, which with incog. (also in the letter) are specially noted by Addison. He returns to the subject in A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, in a letter addressed to Lord Oxford in Feb. 1712 (published May 1712). It is a plea for the establishment_of an academy "to correct and fix the English language." Towards the conclusion he says—“I would willingly avoid repetition, having, about a year ago, communicated to the public much of what I had to offer upon this subject, by the hands of an ingenious gentleman, who for a long time did thrice a week divert or instruct the kingdom by his papers, and is supposed to pursue the same design at present, under the title of Spectator." There are several references to the subject of this letter in the Journal to Stella, from Feb. 21 to July 17; and Voltaire discusses it in his 24th letter (Lettres Philosophiques, 1734). It is hardly necessary to follow Mr. T. Arnold in showing how wrongly Addison, or Steele (No. 147), understood the mysteries of es and eth or his and her. It might be more to the point to speculate on the amusing inconsistency between the doctrine of the essay and the practice of the revisers. PAGE 194. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. i. 112. My imagination, etc. The sentence may be made clearer by the insertion of 'which' after 'adventures.' PAGE 195. Pultowa. July 8, 1709. Count Piper was Prime Minister of Charles XII. of Sweden. PAGE 197. "A make-bate, a busie-bodie, a pick-thanke, a seeke- PAGE 198. All for Love, etc., by Dryden (ante, p. 44). The Spectator deals with the question of Master and The Five Fields towards Chelsea, on the site of the modern PAGE 202. Motto. Cicero, De Officiis, ii. 5. PAGE 203. Tully tells us. De Inventione Rhetorica. Dr. Beveridge, Bishop of St. Asaph (1637-1708). p. 190. Charles Lillie. See vol. i. p. 349. Garraway's. See vol. i. p. 323. Also Nos. 403 and 457; Tatler, No. 147; Steele's Tender Husband, II. i. PAGE 205. Motto. Cicero, De Officiis, II. xii. 43. PAGE 206. Mechanick Employments. See the reference to Deptford, ante, p. 195. PAGE 207. The Colours in the Hall were those taken at Blenheim. Cicero, Philippics, I. PAGE 208. August 1711, when Marlborough passed the French lines on his march on Bouchain. No. 136, No. 137. No. 138. No. 139. Motto. Virgil, Æn. iv. 285. Steele prints it thus:-Animum No. 140. curis nunc huc nunc dividit illu.. PAGE 209. Account to wit. Vol. i. p. 215, etc. Imitators of Milton, e.g. John Philips in his Cyder. PAGE 210. Mr. Lillie's, ante, p. 204. PAGE 21I. PAGE 212. PAGE 213. PAGE 214. Ombre Table, ante, p. 86 and note. Motto. Horace, Epist. ÎI. i. 187-8. Shadwell's comedy The Lancashire Witches, and Tegue -Ben Johnson and Bullock, actors. See B. I. -Bellenden's translation of Hector Boece's Historia Scotorum supplied many of the details of Holinshed's Chronicle, from which Shakespeare borrowed. PAGE 215. But Shakespeare's Magick. Dryden and Davenant's Tempest, Prol., 19-20. No. 141 No. 141. No. 142. No. 143. No. 144. PAGE 215. Design whate'er. The concluding line of the 5th Act of The PAGE 216. Hans Carvel, by Prior. Steele quotes ll. 11-12, but puts I am, etc. John Hughes is said to have written this letter. PAGE 216. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xiii. 18. -Steele's phrase "being genuine" need not be interpreted by the note in vol. i. p. 324, for the originals have been preserved. They were addressed by Steele to his wife, 'Dear Prue,' four years previously, not forty. They are printed in Nichols's edition of the Epistolary Correspondence. The letter dated Aug. 7, 1671' reproduces the letter of Aug. 22, 1707 (Nichols, i. 105) verbatim, with the change of 'Madam.' for 'Mrs. Scurlock' at the close. The letter of Sept. 3' is that of Aug. 16 (altered to Aug. 23) 1707 (Nichols, i. 97). The interpolation Though I made,' etc. is added on the MS. The letter of 'Sept. 25' is that of Sept. 1, 1707 (Nichols, i. p. 109). The sentence The two next' etc. is added on the MS. In the original, Holland' reads 'Lisbon'; 'Windsor,'' Hampton-court'; She designs to go with me,' It will be on Tuesday come se'nnight'; The appointed day, that day.' After 'composure' the original reads— "Oh Love! A thousand Torments dwell about thee, Yet who would Live, to Live without thee?" The letter of Sept. 30' is that of Sept 3, 1707 (Nichols, I. iii.). The next letter, of 'Oct. 20,' is that of Aug. 30, 1707 (Nichols, i. 108), on the MS. of which is added, 'He was, when he writ,' etc. The last letter, dated 'June 23,' had been written quite recently, on June 20 (Nichols, i. p. 218). PAGE 221. Motto. Martial, Epigr. VI. lxx. 15. Valetudinarians, ante, p. 367, note. PAGE 222. Cottilus and Uranius have been unmasked by ingenious Burnet's Theory of the Earth, ante, vol. I. p. 345; and p. 231 of this volume. PAGE 227. Steele's Antient Sage is Antisthenes, described in PAGE 228. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xviii. 29. 66 Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stageis PAGE 230. Your Stage Coach, ante, p. 181. Motto. Cicero, De Natura Deorum, II. lxvi. 166. Such is the entertainment. Cf. vol. i. p. 327, and ii. p. 376. The Theory of the Earth, ante, p. 374. The quotation towards the close is from III. xii. pp. 110-1, ed. 1684. PAGE 232. Cicero tells us. Tusc. Disput. i. No. 145. No. 146. Motto. From the pseudo-Ciceronian treatise Rhetoric. ad No. 147. C. Herennium I. ii St. James's Garlick-Hill (Garlick hithe), rebuilt in 1676-82, was near Thames Street in Vintry-Ward. The Reader referred to is the Rev. Philip Stubbs, afterwards Archdeacon of St. Albans. PAGE 236. Sion College, London Wall. Pindarick readers. Cf. vol. i. p. 353, and vol. ii. p. 284. PAGE 237. Cant. Steele is out in his etymology. See the New Eng. Dict. · Dr. S- -e. Probably Dr. George Smalridge, afterwards Bishop of Bristol, the Favonius' of the 114th Tatler. See Mr. Dobson's Selections from Steele, p. 456. PAGE 238. Do you read, etc. Si cantas, male cantas; si legis, cantas,— a saying of Cæsar's, quoted by Quintilian, De Inst. Orat. I. viii. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. ii. 212. French and Country Dances. See vol. i. p. 356. PAGE 241. For Women, etc. Waller, Of Love, ll. 13-16. PAGE 242. Motto. Cicero, Tusc. Disput. IV. xxxii. 68. PAGE 245. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. iii. 152-3. Plagues. Budgell probably refers to some pamphlets, now difficult to trace. The B. M. Catalogue describes an 1800 edition of the Fifteen plagues of a Footman, Coachman, &c., and also the Pleasures of a Single Life (1701). Cf. the Fifteen Comforts, etc., in note to p. 343 of the first volume. PAGE 246. Juvenal, Sat. iii. 147-151. Dryden's translation, 11. 248-55. Scott & Saintsbury's ed. reads 'patches' for 'patch is.' Want is the scorn, etc. ib. 11. 256-7. PAGE 247. Sloven. Budgell, the writer of this translation of The Sloven in his Theophrastus. Atticus. Did this suggest to Pope Addison ? paper, included a See vol. i. p. 329. his sobriquet for PAGE 248. Mr. Osbourn. Advice to a Son, I. xxiii. No. 148. No. 149. No. 150. No. 151, PAGE 253. Motto. Homer, Iliad, vi. 146. No. 152, PAGE 254. A gay Frenchman, etc. The anecdote is of the Chevalier of Condé (referred to ante, p. 21 and note). de Flourilles, killed at Senelf in 1674. It is told in the Memoirs PAGE 256. Motto. Cicero, De Senectute, xxiii. No. 153. My author. Cicero. PAGF 260. (last line). So A, but the 1712 text reads 'a Young.' No. 154. No. 154. No. 155. PAGE 261. Simon Honeycomb's visits to the Watering-Places are in an ascending scale of modishness from Astrop Wells near Oxford to Tunbridge and Bath. St. Edmunds-bury is the scene of Shadwell's Bury-Fair; and Epsom-Wells gives the title to another comedy by the same hand. PAGE 263. Great with Tully of late. Cf. vol. i. p. 327; also ii. In 'A' this paper is numbered '156,' and subsequent papers are incorrectly numbered. The error is rectified from 166' onwards. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 451. No. 157, No. 158. No. 159. No. 160. No. 161. No. 162. PAGE 268. New Exchange, ante, p. 59 and note. A common bite. See vol. i. p. 349. PAGE 270. Affection. Either in the obsolete sense of affectation, as used by Maria in The School for Scandal (I. i.), or a misprint for that word, which is given in its usual form in vol. i. p. 26. PAGE 271. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. ii. 187-9. PAGE 273. Seneca says. Epist. 95 (about the middle). PAGE 274. That Infamy. Steele is at issue with public opinion, which found its most straightforward expression in the later utterances of Dr. Johnson (see Birkbeck Hill's Boswell's Johnson, i. 46, ii. 407, v. 99). Steele returns to the "licensed Tyrants, the Schoolmasters" in No. 168. PAGE 275. Motto. Martial, Epigr. XIII. ii. 8. The Present State of Wit (1711) points out that Steele, instead of falling in with the customs of the day, like the other papers of the time, took the new course of attacking them. Waller, 'On a Girdle,' ll. 11-12. PAGE 278. Give me but what, etc. -The Visions of Mirzah. Cf. Steele's Conscious Lovers, I. ii. 1. "These Moral Writers practise Virtue after Death: This charming Vision of Mirza ! Such an Author consulted in a Morning sets the Spirit for the Vicissitudes of the Day, better than the Glass does a Man's Person." PAGE 283. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. iv. 43-4. PAGE 284. Bienséance. Cf. Boileau, L'Art Poétique, III. 122-3. -Camisars. The name given to the Calvinists of the Cevennes during the religious troubles following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. They are represented in the Waxwork of English Religions in the 257th Tatler. They were known as the French Prophets (vol. i. p. 320). See also Tatler, No. 11. PAGE 286. Motto. Virgil, Georgics, ii. 527-534. PAGE 287. Like Calia. As You Like It, I. ii. 190. PAGE 290. Motto. Dr. Kennet. Parochial Antiquities (1695), p. 610, etc. |