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The Spectator Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Spectator novel. A total of 437 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Spectator.by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.VOL. I.1891 INTRODUCTION
When Richar
The Spectator.by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.VOL. I.1891 INTRODUCTION
When Richard Steele, in number 555 of his 'Spectator', signed its last paper and named those who had most helped him 'to keep up the spirit of so long and approved
- 401 146. TULL. No man was ever great without some degree of inspiration. 147. TULL. Good delivery is a graceful management of the voice, countenance, and gesture. 148. HOR. 2 Ep. ii. 212. Better one thorn pluckd out, than all remain. 149. CaeCIL. apud TULL.
- 402 'Himself, in rustic pomp, on holydays, To rural powers a just oblation pays; And on the green his careless limbs displays: The hearth is in the midst: the herdsmen, round The cheerful fire, provoke his health in goblets crown'd.He calls on Bacch
- 403 (P.) 175. OVID, Rem. Am. v. 625. To save your house from neighbring fire is hard. (Tate). 176. LUCR. iv. 1155. A little, pretty, witty, charming she! 177. JUV. Sat. xv. 140. Who can all sense of others ills escape, Is but a brute, at best, in human shap
- 404 It gives me pleasure to be praised by you, whom all men praise. 189. VIRG. aen. x. 824. An image of paternal tenderness. 190. HOR. 2 Od. viii. 18. A slavery to former times unknown. 191. --Deluding vision of the night. (Pope). 192. TER. Andr. Act i. Sc.
- 405 (P.) 203. OVID, Met. ii. 38. Ill.u.s.trious parent! if I yet may claim The name of son, O rescue me from shame; My mothers truth confirm; all doubt remove By tender pledges of a fathers love. 204. HOR. 1 Od. xix. 7. Her face too dazzling for the sight, He
- 406 217. JUV. Sat. vi. 326. Then unrestraind by rules of decency, Th a.s.sembled females raise a general cry. 218. HOR. Ep. xvii. 68. --Have a care Of whom you talk, to whom, and what, and where. (Pooley). 219. OVID, Met. xiii. 141. These I scarce call our
- 407 232. SALl.u.s.t, Bel. Cat. By bestowing nothing he acquired glory. 233. VIRG. Ecl. x. v. 60. As if by these my sufferings I could ease; Or by my pains the G.o.d of love appease. (Dryden). 234. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 41. I wish this error in your friends.h.i.+
- 408 No amorous hero ever gave thee birth, Nor ever tender G.o.ddess brought thee forth: Some rugged rocks hard entrails gave thee form, And raging seas produced thee in a storm: A soul well suiting thy tempestuous kind, So rough thy manners, so untamed thy mi
- 409 Wedlocks an ill men eagerly embrace. 262. OVID, Trist. ii. 566. _Adapted_. My paper flows from no satiric vein, Contains no poison, and conveys no pain. 263. TREBONIUS apud TULL. I am glad that he whom I must have loved from duty, whatever he had been, is
- 410 All you who think the city neer can thrive Till every cuckold-makers flayd alive, Attend. (Pope). 275. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 300. A head, no h.e.l.lebore can cure. 276. HOR. 1 Sat. iii. 42. Misconduct screend behind a specious name. 277. OVID, Met. lib. i
- 411 Lifes span forbids us to extend our cares, And stretch our hopes beyond our years. (Creech). 290. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 97. Forgets his swelling and gigantic words. (Roscommon). 291. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 351. But in a poem elegantly writ, I will not quarre
- 412 303. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 363. --Some choose the clearest light, And boldly challenge the most piercing eye. (Roscommon). 304. VIRG. aen. iv. 2. A latent fire preys on his feverish veins. 305. VIRG. aen. ii. 521. These times want other aids. (Dryden). 30
- 413 (Dryden). 317. HOR. 1 Ep. ii. 27. --Born to drink and eat. (Creech). 318. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 63. With different talents formd, we variously excel. 319. HOR. 1 Ep. i. 90. Say while they change on thus, what chains can bind These varying forms, this Proteus
- 414 Delighted with unaffected plainness. 328b. HOR. Epod. xvii. 24. Day chases night, and night the day, But no relief to me convey. (Duncombe). 329. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 27. With Ancus, and with Numa, kings of Rome, We must descend into the silent tomb. 330. JUV
- 415 (Dryden). 342. TULL. Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them no offence. 343. OVID, Metam. xv. 165. --All things are but alterd; nothing dies; And here and there th unbodyd spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness disposses
- 416 (Dryden). 357. VIRG., aen. ii. 6. Who can relate such woes without a tear? 358. HOR. 4 Od. xii. 1. ult. Tis joyous folly that unbends the mind. (Francis). 359. VIRG. Ecl. ii. 63. Lions the wolves, and wolves the kids pursue, The kids sweet thyme,--and
- 417 (Roscommon). 370. --All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players. (Shakspeare). 371. JUV. Sat. x. 28. And shall the sage your approbation win, Whose laughing features wore a constant grin? 372. OVID, Met. i. 759. To hear an open slan
- 418 383. JUV. Sat. i. 75. A beauteous garden, but by vice maintaind. [384: no motto. text Ed.] 385. OVID, 1 Trist. iii 66. b.r.e.a.s.t.s that with sympathizing ardour glowd, And holy friends.h.i.+p, such as Theseus vowd. [386: motto but translation missing.
- 419 399. PERS. Sat. iv. 23. None, none descends into himself to find The secret imperfections of his mind. (Dryden). 400. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 93. Theres a snake in the gra.s.s. (English Proverbs). 401. TER. Eun. Act i. Sc. 1. It is the capricious state of love
- 420 But mutually they need each others help. (Roscommon). 415. VIRG. Georg. ii. 155. Witness our cities of ill.u.s.trious name, Their costly labour, and stupendous frame. (Dryden). 416. LUCR. ix. 754. So far as what we see with our minds, bears similitude t
- 421 (English Proverb). 429. HOR. 2 Od. ii. 19. From cheats of words the crowd she brings To real estimates of things. (Creech). 430. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 62. --The crowd replies, Go seek a stranger to believe thy lies. (Creech). 431. TULL. What is there in natu
- 422 442. HOR. 2 Ep. i. 117. --Those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble to a man. (Pope). 443. HOR. 3 Od. xxiv. 32. s.n.a.t.c.hd from our sight, we eagerly pursue, And fondly would recall her to our view. 444. HOR. Ars P
- 423 456. TULL. The man whose conduct is publicly arraigned, is not suffered even to be undone quietly. 457. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 9. Seeming to promise something wondrous great. 458. HOR. False modesty. 459. HOR. 1 Ep. iv. 5. --Whateer befits the wise and good (
- 424 470. MART. 2 Epig. lx.x.xvi. Tis folly only, and defect of sense, Turns trifles into things of consequence. 471. EURIPID. The wise with hope support the pains of life. 472. VIRG. aen. iii. 660. This only solace his hard fortune sends. (Dryden). 473. HO
- 425 Nor has any one so bright a genius as to become ill.u.s.trious instantaneously, unless it fortunately meets with occasion and employment, with patronage too, and commendation. 485. QUIN. CURT. 1. vii. c. 8. The strongest things are not so well established
- 426 499. PERS. Sat. i. 40. --You drive the jest too far. (Dryden). 500. OVID, Met. vi. 182. Seven are my daughters of a form divine, With seven fair sons, an indefective line. Go, fools, consider this, and ask the cause From which my pride its strong presum
- 427 514. VIRG. Georg. iii. 291. But the commanding Muse my chariot guides, Which oer the dubious cliff securely rides: And pleased I am no beaten road to take, But first the way to new discovries make. (Dryden). 515. TER. Heaut. Act ii. Sc. 3. I am ashamed an
- 428 You will easily find a worse woman; a better the sun never shone upon. 528. Ovid, Met. ix. 165. With wonted fort.i.tude she bore the smart, And not a groan confessd her burning heart. (Gay). 529. HOR. Ars Poet. 92. Let everything have its due place. (Ro
- 429 For nature forms and softens us within, And writes our fortunes changes in our face: Pleasure enchants, impetuous rage transports, And grief dejects, and wrings the tortured soul: And these are all interpreted by speech. (Roscommon). 542. OVID, Met. ii. 4
- 430 555. PERS. Sat. iv. 51.'Lay the fict.i.tious character aside.'556. VIRG. aen. ii. 471.'So s.h.i.+nes, renew'd in youth, the crested snake, Who slept the winter in a th.o.r.n.y brake; And, casting off his slough when spring returns, Now
- 431 568. MART. Epig. i. 39. Reciting makes it thine. 569. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 434. Wise were the kings who never chose a friend, Till with full cups they had unmaskd his soul, And seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. (Roscommon). 570. HOR. Ars Poet. ver
- 432 582. JUV. Sat. vii. 51. The curse of writing is an endless itch. (Ch. Dryden). 583. VIRG. Georg. iv. 112. With his own hand the guardian of the bees, For slips of pines may search the mountain trees, And with wild thyme and savry plant the plain, Till his
- 433 Nature, and the common laws of sense, Forbid to reconcile antipathies; Or make a snake engender with a dove, And hungry tigers court the tender lambs. (Roscommon). 596. OVID, Ep. xv. 79. Cupids light darts my tender bosom move. (Pope). 597. PETR. The mi
- 434 609. JUV. Sat. i. 86. The miscellaneous subjects of my book. 610. SENECA. Thus, when my fleeting days, at last, Unheeded, silently, are past, Calmly I shall resign my breath, In life unknown, forgot in death: While he, oertaken unprepared, Finds death an
- 435 623. VIRG. aen. iv. 24. But first let yawning earth a pa.s.sage rend, And let me thro the dark abyss descend: First let avenging Jove, with flames from high. Drive down this body to the nether sky, Condemnd with ghosts in endless night to lie; Before I br
- 436 SOME ADVERTIs.e.m.e.nTS FROM THE ORIGINAL NUMBERS OF THE SPECTATOR.In No. 1 Books only were advertised; and they were, Dr. James Drake's 'Anthropologia Nova; or, a New System of Anatomy;' Sir William Petty's 'Political Arithmetic;' a translation of
- 437 An Admirable Confect, which a.s.suredly Cures Stuttering or Stammering in Children or grown Persons, tho never so bad, causing them to speak distinct and free, without any trouble or difficulty; it remedies all manner of Impediments in the Speech, or diso