"Mr. Addison is generally allowed to be the most correct and elegant of all our writers; yet some inaccuracies of style have escaped him, which it is the chief design of the following notes to point out. A work of this sort, well executed, would be of use to foreigners who study our language; and even to such of our countrymen as wish to write it in perfect purity.”—R. Worcester (Bp. Hurd]. “I set out many years ago with a warm admiration of this amiable writer [Addison]. I then took a surfeit of his natural, easy manner; and was taken, like my betters, with the raptures and high rights of Shakspeare. My maturer judgment, or lenient age, (call it which you will,) has now led me back to the favourite of my youth. And here, I think, I shall stick; for such useful sense, in so charming words, I find not elsewhere. His taste is so pure, and his Virgilian prose (as Dr. Young styles it) so exquisite, that I have but now found out, at the close of a critical life, the full value of his writings.”—Ibid. “ Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.”—Dr. Johnson. “ It was not till three generations had laughed and wept over the pages of Addison that the omission [of a monument to his memory] was supplied by public veneration. At length, in our own time, his image, skilfully graven, appeared in Poets' Corner.—Such a mark of national respect was due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism."- Macaulay. manners. CONTENTS, VOL. III. 162. On Inconstancy and Irresolution 163. Disappointment in Love-Letter from Leonora- 164. Story of Theodosius and Constantia 165. Introduction of*French Phrases in the History of the 166. Durability of Writing—Anecdote of an atheistical 169. On Good-nature, as the Effect of Constitution 171. Subject continued— Address to those who have jealous 173. Account of a Grinning-match 177. Good-nature, as a Moral Virtue 179. Various Dispositions of Readers-Account of a Whis- 181. Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage 183. On Fable-Fable of Pleasure and Pain . 184. Account of a remarkable Sleeper 185. Zeal-various kinds of Zealots 189. Cruelty of Parents-Letter from a Father to his Son-- 191. On the Whims of Lottery-Adventurers 198. Character of the Salamanders—Story of a Castilian Psalm-singing_Erratum in the Paper on Drinking 207. Notions of the Heathens on Devotion 209. Simonides's Satire on Women 211. Transmigration of Souls-Letters on Simonides's Sa- tire on Women 213. On habitual good Intentions 215. Education-compared to Sculpture 219. Vanity of Honours and Titles 77 81 85 88 221. Use of Mottos-Love of Latin among the Common 223. Account of Sappho-Her Hymn to Venus 227. Letter on the Lover's Leap 231. Letter on Bashfulness—Reflections on Modesty 118 233. History of the Lover's Leap 235. Account of the Trunk-maker in the Theatre 237. On the Ways of Providence 239. Various Ways of managing a Debate 241. Letter on the Absence of Lovers, Remedies proposed 133 243. On the Beauty and Loveliness of Virtue . 245. Simplicity of Character—Letters on innocent Diver- sions-Absent Lovers—from a Trojan . 247. Different Classes of Feinale Orators 251. Letter on the Cries of London 253. On Detraction among bad Poets-Pope's Essay 255. Uses of Ambition-Fame difficult to be obtained 156 256. Subject—Disadvantages of Ambition 257. Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity 262. The Spectator's Success-Caution in Writing-an- nounces his Criticism on Milton * 265. Female Head-dress—Will. Honeycomb's Notions of it 173 267. Criticism on Paradise Lost 269. Visit from Sir Roger_his Opinions on various Matters 284 271. Letters from Tom Trippit, complaining of a Greek Quotation-soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a 273. Criticism on Paradise Lost 181 275. Dissection of a Beau's Head 279. Criticism on Paradise Lost 185 281. Dissection of a Coquette's Heart 285. Criticism on Paradise Lost 189 287. On the Civil Constitution of Great Britain 289. Reflections on Bills of Mortality–Story of a Dervise 299 291. Criticism on Paradise Lost 195 293. Connexion betwixt Prudence and good Fortune 295. Letter on Pin-money-Reflections on that Custom 306 297. Criticism on Paradise Lost 198 299. Letter from Sir John Envil, married to a Woman of 303. Criticism on Paradise Lost 204 . . |
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