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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 (
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.+
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 400 A plundering race, still eager to invade, On spoil they live, and make of theft a trade. 131. VIRG. Ecl. x. 63. Once more, ye woods, adieu. 132. TULL. That man may be called impertinent, who considers not the circ.u.mstances of time, or engrosses the conv
- 399 116. VIRG. Georg. iii. 43. The echoing hills and chiding hounds invite. 117. VIRG. Ecl. viii. 108. With voluntary dreams they cheat their minds. 118. VIRG. aen. iv. 73. --The fatal dart Sticks in his side, and rankles in his heart. (Dryden). 119. VIRG.
- 398 Edward and Henry, now the boast of fame, And virtuous Alfred, a more sacred name, After a life of generous toils endured, The Gaul subdued, or property secured, Ambition humbled, mighty cities stormd, Or laws established, and the world reformd: Closed the
- 397 (Dryden). 88. VIRG. Ecl. iii. 16. What will not masters do, when servants thus presume? 89. PERS. Sat. v. 64. PERS. From thee both old and young with profit learn The bounds of good and evil to discern. CORN. Unhappy he, who does this work adjourn, And
- 396 73. VIRG. aen. i. 328. O G.o.ddess! for no less you seem. 74. VIRG. aen. iv. 88. The works unfinishd and neglected lie. 75. HOR. 1 Ep. xvii. 23. All fortune fitted Aristippus well. (Creech). 76. HOR. 1 Ep. viii. 17. As you your fortune bear, we will bea
- 395 Poems like pictures are. 59. SENECA. Busy about nothing. 60. PERS. Sat. iii. 85. Is it for this you gain those meagre looks, And sacrifice your dinner to your books? 61. PERS. Sat. v. 19. Tis not indeed my talent to engage In lofty trifles, or to swell
- 394 43. VIRG. aen. vi. 854. Be these thy arts; to bid contention cease, Chain up stern wars, and give the nations peace; Oer subject lands extend thy gentle sway, And teach with iron rod the haughty to obey. 44. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 123. Now hear what every au
- 393 29. HOR. 1 Sat. x. 23. Both tongues united, sweeter sounds produce, Like Chian mixed with Palernian juice. 30. HOR. 1 Ep. vi. 65. If nothing, as Mimnermus strives to prove, Can eer be pleasant without mirth and love, Then live in mirth and love, thy sport
- 392 15. OVID, Ars Am. i. 159. Light minds are pleased with trifles. 16. HOR. 1 Ep. i. ii. What right, what true, what fit we justly call, Let this be all my care--for this is all. (Pope). 17. JUV. x. 191. --A visage rough, Deformd, unfeatured. 18. HOR. 2 Ep
- 391 TRANSLATIONS OF THE MOTTOS. No. 1. HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 143. One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke; Another out of smoke brings glorious light, And (without raising expectation high) Surprises us with dazzling miracles. (Roscommon). 2. JUV. Sat. vii
- 390 [Greek: Ho elachiston deomenos eggista theon.]Socrates apud Xen.It was the common Boast of the Heathen Philosophers, that by the Efficacy of their several Doctrines, they made Humane Nature resemble the Divine. How much mistaken soever they might be in th
- 389 Virg.The Love of Symmetry and Order, which is natural to the Mind of Man, betrays him sometimes into very whimsical Fancies. _This n.o.ble Principle_, says a _French_ Author, _loves to amuse it self on the most trifling Occasions. You may see a profound P
- 388 _SIR,_ 'If you would be so kind to me, as to suspend that Satisfaction, which the Learned World must receive in reading one of your Speculations, by publis.h.i.+ng this Endeavour, you will very much oblige and improve one, who has the Boldness to hop
- 387 Thus am I doubly arm'd: my Death and Life, My Bane and Antidote are both before me.This in a Moment brings me to an End; But This informs me I shall never die.The Soul, secur'd in her Existence, smiles At the drawn Dagger, and defies its Point.T
- 386 The following Account, which came to my Hands some time ago, may be no disagreeable Entertainment to such of my Readers, as have tender Hearts and nothing to do._Mr._ SPECTATOR, 'A Friend of mine died of a Feaver last Week, which he caught by walking
- 385 No.'Whether I am not old enough to chuse for my self?No.'Whether it would not have been rude in me to refuse a Lock of his Hair?No. 'Shou'd not I be a very barbarous Creature, if I did not pity a Man that is always Sighing for my Sake?
- 384 'Another, who had been summoned to make her Appearance, was excused by the Steward, as well knowing in his Heart, that the good Squire himself had qualified her for the Ram.'Mrs. _Quick_ having nothing to object against the Indictment, pleaded h
- 383 '--Fallentis Semita Vitae.'Hor._Mr_. SPECTATOR, 'In a former Speculation you have observed, that true Greatness doth not consist in that Pomp and Noise wherein the Generality of Mankind are apt to place it. You have there taken Notice, that
- 382 O'er the thin Soil, with silent Joy he spies Transplanted Woods, and borrow'd Verdure rise; Where every Meadow won with Toil and Blood, From haughty Tyrants, and the raging Flood, With Fruits and Flowers the careful Hind supplies, And cloathes t
- 381 I might here mention an Epistolary Poem, just published by Mr. _Eusden_ on the King's Accession to the Throne: Wherein, amongst many other n.o.ble and beautiful Strokes of Poetry, his Reader may see this Rule very happily observed.No. 619. Friday, No
- 380 Sir _Richard_ to shew his Zeal for the Protestant Religion, is at the Expence of a Tar-Barrel and a Ball. I peeped into the Knight's great Hall, and saw a very pretty Bevy of Spinsters. My dear Relict was amongst them, and ambled in a Country-Dance a
- 379 No. 615. Wednesday, November 3, 1714.'--Qui Deorum Muneribus sapienter uti, Duramque callet pauperiem pati, Pejusque letho flagitium timet: Non ille pro caris amicis Aut patria timidus perire.'Hor.It must be owned that Fear is a very powerful Pa
- 378 Will. Hopeless._Middle-Temple, October_ 26, 1714._SIR_, 'Tho' you have formerly made _Eloquence_ the Subject of one or more of your Papers, I do not remember that you ever consider'd it as possessed by a Set of People, who are so far from m
- 377 After he had deluded me from my Parents, who were People of very good Fas.h.i.+on, in less than three Months he left me. My Parents would not see, nor hear from me; and had it not been for a Servant, who had lived in our Family, I must certainly have peri
- 376 _Mr._ SPECTATOR, 'I wish you would write a Philosophical Paper about Natural Antipathies, with a Word or two concerning the Strength of Imagination. I can give you a List upon the first Notice, of a Rational _China_ Cup, of an Egg that walks upon two
- 375 Sir _Philip de Somervile_ held the Manors of _Whichenovre, Scirescot, Ridware, Netherton_, and _Cowlee_, all in _Com.Stafford_, of the Earls of _Lancaster_, by this memorable Service.The said Sir _Philip_ shall find, maintain, and sustain, one _Bacon Flit
- 374 No. 606. Wednesday, October 13, 1714.'--longum cantu solata laborem Arguto Conjux percurrit pectine Telas.'Virg._Mr._ SPECTATOR, 'I have a couple of Nieces under my Direction, who so often run gadding abroad, that I don't know where to
- 373 To be cur'd, thou must_, Colin, _thy Pa.s.sion remove; But what Swain is so silly to live without Love?No, Deity, bid the dear Nymph to return, For ne'er was poor Shepherd so sadly forlorn.Ah! What shall I do? I shall die with Despair; Take heed
- 372 'In order to execute the Office of Love-Casuist to _Great Britain_, with which I take my self to be invested by your Paper of September 8, [1] I shall make some further Observations upon the two s.e.xes in general, beginning with that which always ou
- 371 I have always taken a particular Pleasure in examining the Opinions which Men of different Religions, different Ages, and different Countries, have entertained concerning the Immortality of the Soul, and the State of Happiness which they promise themselve
- 370 People may dream on as long as they please, but I shall take no Notice of any Imaginary Adventures that do not happen while the Sun is on this Side of the Horizon. For which Reason I stifle _Fritilla's_ Dream at Church last _Sunday_, who while the re
- 369 The Absurdity in this Instance is obvious. And yet every time that clas.h.i.+ng Metaphors are put together, this Fault is committed more or less. It hath already been said, that Metaphors are Images of things which affect the Senses. An Image therefore, t
- 368 It is certain the Imagination may be so differently affected in Sleep, that our Actions of the Day might be either rewarded or punished with a little Age of Happiness or Misery. St. _Austin_ was of Opinion, that if in _Paradise_ there was the same Vicissi
- 367 'Love is generally accompanied with Good-will in the Young, Interest in the Middle-aged, and a Pa.s.sion too gross to Name in the Old.'The Endeavours to revive a decaying Pa.s.sion generally extinguish the Remains of it.'A Woman who from be
- 366 _The following Discourse comes from the same Hand with the Essays upon Infinitude_ [1].We consider infinite s.p.a.ce as an Expansion without a Circ.u.mference: We consider Eternity, or infinite Duration, as a Line that has neither a Beginning nor an End.
- 365 Man may be considered in two Views, as a Reasonable, and as a Sociable Being; capable of becoming himself either happy or miserable, and of contributing to the Happiness or Misery of his Fellow Creatures.Suitably to this double Capacity, the Contriver of
- 364 _SIR_, 'It was a good Piece of Advice which _Pythagoras_ gave to his Scholars, That every Night before they slept they should examine what they had been a doing that Day, and so discover what Actions were worthy of Pursuit to-morrow, and what little
- 363 'Hec gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, Hic Nemus, hic toto tec.u.m consumerer aevo.'Virg.Hilpa was one of the 150 Daughters of _Zilpah_, of the Race of _Cohu_, by whom some of the Learned think is meant _Cain_. She was exceedingly beautif
- 362 _Good Mr._ Pert, 'I will allow you nothing till you resolve me the following Question.Pray what's the Reason that while you only talk now upon _Wednesdays_, _Fridays_, and _Mondays_, you pretend to be a greater Tatler, than when you spoke every
- 361 [Footnote 1: See Nos. 565, 571, 590, and 628.]No. 581. Monday, August 16, 1714. Addison.'Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura Quae legis.'Mart.I am at present sitting with a Heap of Letters before me, which I have received under th
- 360 In this new Shape he winged his Way in Safety to the Palace, where perching on a Tree which stood near his Queen's Apartment, he filled the whole Place with so many melodious and Melancholy Notes as drew her to the Window. He had the Mortification to
- 359 There is indeed nothing which betrays a Man into so many Errors and Inconveniences, as the Desire of not appearing singular; for which Reason it is very necessary to form a right Idea of Singularity, that we may know when it is laudable, and when it is vi
- 358 You know, Sir, the Case of Mrs. _Medlar_, I hope you would not have had me cry out my Eyes for such a Husband. I shed Tears enough for my Widowhood a Week after my Marriage, and when he was put in his Grave, reckoning he had been two Years dead, and my se
- 357 If we would be thus Happy, and thus Sensible of our Maker's Presence, from the secret Effects of his Mercy and Goodness, we must keep such a Watch over all our Thoughts, that, in the Language of the Scripture, his Soul may have Pleasure in us. We mus
- 356 No Vices are so incurable as those which Men are apt to glory in. One would wonder how Drunkenness should have the good Luck to be of this Number. _Anacharsis_, being invited to a Match of Drinking at _Corinth_, demanded the Prize very humorously, because
- 355 'I have a.s.sisted in several Sieges in the _Low-Countries_, and being still willing to employ my Talents, as a Soldier and Engineer, lay down this Morning at Seven a Clock before the Door of an obstinate Female, who had for some time refused me Admi
- 354 No. 565. Friday, July 9, 1714. Addison.'--Deum namque ire per omnes Terrasque, tractusque maris, coelumque profundum.'Virg.I was Yesterday about Sun-set walking in the open Fields, 'till the Night insensibly fell upon me. I at first amused
- 353 No. 563. Monday, July 5, 1714.'--Magni nominis Umbra--'Lucan.I shall entertain my Reader with two very curious Letters. The first of them comes from a chimerical Person, who I believe never writ to any Body before.SIR, 'I am descended from
- 352 No. 561. Wednesday, June 30, 1714. Addison.'--Paulatim abolere Sichaeum Incipit, et vivo tentat praevertere amore Jampridem resides animos desuetaque corda.'Virg.SIR, 'I am a tall, broad-shoulder'd, impudent, black Fellow, and, as I th
- 351 Hor.In my last Paper, I gave my Reader a Sight of that Mountain of Miseries, which was made up of those several Calamities that afflict the Minds of Men. I saw, with unspeakable Pleasure, the whole Species thus delivered from its Sorrows: though at the sa
- 350 No. 557. From Friday, June 18 to Monday, June 21, 1714. Addison.'Quippe domum timet ambiguam, Tyriosque bilingues.'Virg._There is nothing, says Plato, so delightful, as the hearing or the speaking of Truth_. For this Reason there is no Conversat
- 349 WILLIAM HONEYCOMB, ESQ. [1]The Seven former Volumes of the _Spectator_ having been Dedicated to some of the most celebrated Persons of the Age, I take leave to Inscribe this Eighth and Last to You, as to a Gentleman who hath ever been ambitious of appeari
- 348 [Footnote 2: Epist. ad Diversos, v. 12.][Footnote 3: [Glory]][Footnote 4: Lib. v. ep. 8, to t.i.tinius Capito. In which, also, Pliny quotes the bit of Virgil taken for the motto of this paper.]No. 555. Sat.u.r.day, November 6, 1712. Steele.'--Respue
- 347 T.[Footnote 1: See note on p. 288, 289, vol. ii. [Footnote 1 of No. 288.][Footnote 2: [or]]No. 553. Thursday, December 4, 1712. Addison.'Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.' Hor.The Project which I published on _Monday_ last has brought m
- 346 On _Menander_, the Author unnamed.'The very Bees, O sweet_ Menander, _hung To taste the_ Muses _Spring upon thy Tongue; The very_ Graces _made the Scenes you writ Their happy Point of fine Expression hit.Thus still you live, you make your_ Athens _s.
- 345 [Footnote 1: Age.]No. 550. Monday, December 1, 1712. Addison.'Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor HIATU?'Hor.Since the late Dissolution of the Club whereof I have often declared my self a Member, there are very many Persons who by Letters, Pet
- 344 No. 548. Friday, November 28, 1712. [1]'--Vitiis nemo sine nascitur, optimus illo Qui minimis urgetur--'Hor._Nov._ 27, 1712._Mr._ SPECTATOR, 'I have read this Day's Paper with a great deal of Pleasure, and could send you an Account of
- 343 [Footnote 1: _Ximena_, or the _Heroic Daughter_, a Tragedy taken from the _Cid_ of Corneille, by Colley Gibber. The play was not published until after Steele's pamphlet, 'The Crisis,' had exposed him to political and (as it necessarily foll
- 342 Copia di Littera del Re della China al Papa, interpretata dal Padre Segretario dell' India della Compagna di Giesu. [1]_A Voi Benedetto sopra i benedetti PP, ed interpretatore grande de Pontifici e Pastore Xmo dispensatore dell' oglio de i Re d&
- 341 No. 543. Sat.u.r.day, November 22, 1712. Addison.'--Facies non omnibus una Nec diversa tamen--'Ov.Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being
- 340 'Tis for his sake that I have suffer'd Life, Groan'd in Captivity, and out-liv'd Hector.Yes, my_ Astyanax, _we'll go together!Together to the Realms of Night we'll go; } There to thy ravish'd Eyes thy Sire I'll show
- 339 'To do honour to his Country, Prince _Arthur_ is an Universal Hero; in Holiness, Temperance, Chast.i.ty, and Justice super-excellent. For the same Reason, and to compliment Queen _Elizabeth_, _Gloriana_, Queen of Fairies, whose Court was the Asylum o
- 338 _Mr._ SPECTATOR, 'The other Day, walking in _Pancras_ Churchyard, I thought of your Paper wherein you mention Epitaphs, and am of opinion this has a Thought in it worth being communicated to your Readers.'Here Innocence and Beauty lies, whose Br