No. 556. No. 557. No. 558. No. 559. No. 561. No. 562. No. 563, No. 564. No.566. No. 567. No. 568. 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.) 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 IO. 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. PAGE 15. - PAGE 20. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. i. 20-2. The famous Conjuror. Duncan Campbell, u.s. See B.I. Speaking Head. See Mr. A. W. Ward's Introduction to PAGE 21. Motto. Virgil, Æn. i. 724-6. Pictures of their deceased Husbands. A humorous reference Cowley. The opening passage of the essay 'Of Myself.' Egotism. This would seem to be the first example of the word 'egotism.' See the New English Dictionary, where Addison's statement as to its origin is accepted with hesitation. In Hatzfeld and Darmesteter's French Dictionary the word is said to be derived from the English. The word does not appear to be used in either the Port-Royal Logic or Rhetoric. 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 44. Marlborough' and 'Treasurer.' T-m Br-wn. Tom Brown. See B.I. PAGE 46. The Whole Duty of Man. See vol. i. p. 330. By 'J. F.' No. 568. (Bishop Fell, infra): but the authorship is uncertain. (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. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 322. No. 570. Cetera de genere, etc. Horace, Sat. I. i. 13-14. PAGE 51. Charles Mathers. Ante, vols. v. p. 28, vii. p. 109. See B.I. Motto. ? No. 571. PAGE 50. Master of the House. Mr. Daintry. See B.I. PAGE 52. A Former Spectator-i.e. No. 565. Cf. also Nos. 580, 590, and 628. Essay against Quacks. Cf. No. 444, vol. vi. p. 170. PAGE 58. Fotus, fomentation. PAGE 59. Mr. Dryden's Translation. Æneïs, xii. 585-597, 607-633. Chalmers repeats an editorial statement that this paper was written by Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and was altered by Addison. See note to No. 633. No. 572. PAGE 60. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. ii. 35. No. 573. PAGE 66. Motto. Horace, Odes, IV. ix. 45-9. No. 574, The Persian Tales. Another puff of Ambrose Philips, whose Two Last Letters. See Nos. 565 and 571, and note on p. 52. 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 The letter in this number is ascribed to John Byrom (see B.I.). No. 587, PAGE 108. Motto. Persius, Sat. iii. 30. Fomes Peccati. Cf. Owen, Temptation (1658) vii. 126. "Naturall tempers .. prove a great Fomes of Sinne.' New Eng. Dict. ... PAGE III. Motto. Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 44 (124). No. 588, No. 589. PAGE 116. PAGE 117. No. 591, No. 592. PAGE 121. PAGE 122. Apollonius (Rhodius), ii. Motto. Ovid, Metam. xv. 179-185. Essays upon Infinitude. See note on No. 580 supra. See Embassady. A unique usage, probably a mistake for 'Embassade.' The form Ambassady is found in Luttrell's Brief Relation (iii. 65): on which the editor of the New Eng. Dict. remarks, "? mistake for Ambassadry, or confusion between it and Ambassade.” PAGE 123. Motto. Ovid, Trist. III. iii. 73. This paper has been ascribed to Eustace Budgell, and the verses in it to his brother Gilbert (see B.I.). PAGE 126. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 409. The opening paragraph in this paper would seem to have suggested the lines in the Dunciad III. (253 etc.). Pope adds as a note to l. 256, "Like Salmoneus in Æn. vi." "Tis yours to shake the soul With Thunder rumbling from the mustard-bowl." "The old way of making thunder and mustard were the same; but since, it is more advantageously performed by troughs of wood with stops in them. Whether Mr. Dennis was the inventor of that improvement, I know not; but it is certain, that being once at a tragedy of a new author, he fell into a great passion at hearing some, and cried, "'Sdeath! that is my Thunder.'" The fuller story runs thus:-"In 1709, Mr. John Dennis's tragedy entitled 'Appius and Virginia' was acted. The author on that occasion introduced a new or an improved method of making thunder. His tragedy did not succeed, but his other invention met with the approbation of the managers, and continues in use upon the stage to this day. Mr. Dennis soon after discovered it in the tragedy of Macbeth: the discovery threw him into a fury, and, being addicted to swearing, he exclaimed: "'Sdeath! that's my thunder. See how the fellows use me; they have silenced my No. 592. tragedy, and they roar out my thunder." (The references will be found in Elwin and Courthope's Pope, iv. 332.) PAGE 126. Salmoneus. Cf. ante, vol. i. p. 134. Rimer's Edgar. Thomas Rymer's unfortunate 'heroick Tragedy' Edgar, or the English Monarch was licensed on Sept. 13, 1677, and printed in 1678. (See Genest, i. p. 223.) The phrase at the next acting of King Lear" is obviously a reference to Rymer's censure of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in his Tragedies of the Last Age Considered and his Short View of Tragedy. So, too, are the subsequent paragraphs on the 'rigid criticks.' PAGE 127. Run of three Days. The author's reward for such success was a benefit on the third night. Among the French. notes, vols. iv. pp. 292, 296, v. 286. PAGE 128. Terence. Andria. Prologue, 20-1. PAGE 129. Pliny. Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 3. Addison does not name Le Bossu. See Dr. South. Sermons (ed. 1842), p. 168. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 270-1. 27-34. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. iv. 81-5. Abbaye de la Trape, Paris, 1689. PAGE 134. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 12-13. PAGE 131. Cato. By Addison. Act. V. sc. iii. 9-13, and V. iv. A little French Book. André Felibien, Description de No. 593. No. 594, No. 595. No. 596. No. 597. PAGE 136. Motto. Ovid, Heroides, xv. 79. PAGE 139. Motto. Petronius, ? PAGE 140. New River. See vol. i. p. 21. Those noisy Slaves. Cf. No. 251, vol. iii. p. 305. PAGE 141. A Small-coal-man. This has been said to be an allusion to Tom Britton, whose portrait by Woolaston was engraved by PAGE 142. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. x. 28-30. ii. p. 275). No. 598. PAGE 144. Trophonius's Cave. See vol. vii. pp. 116, 314. Motto: Virgil, Æn. ii. 368-9. No. 599. PAGE 145. Trophonius. See No. 598 and note. PAGE 146. French Protestants. Cf. vol. v. p. 29. Also note ii. p. 338. No. 600. PAGE 148. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 641. A learned Person. Identified as Lancelot Addison, the Essayist's father, author of West Barbary; or a short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco. Oxford, 1671. PAGE 149. Dr. Tillotson somewhere says. Sermon clxv. (ed. Birch). PAGE 153. Motto. Marcus Aurelius, ix. 42. No. 602. No. 603. No. 604. No. 605. No. 606, No. 607, No. 608. No. 609, PAGE 157. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 110. PAGE 158. Emperor of the Mohocks. See note, yol. v. p. 285. PAGE 159. Mr. Dryden's Translation. The first passage is II. 156171, and the second ll. 242-260 of his First Book of Ovid's Art of Love. PAGE 160. Motto. Virgil, Eclog. viii. 68. - These verses have been ascribed to John Byrom, referred to above (see B.1.). 'Phebe' is believed to be Joanna ('Jug'), daughter of Richard Bentley, afterwards wife of Denison Cumberland, grandson of the Bishop of Peterborough. It was she who told her son, Richard Cumberland, that her father (to whom the Spectator was read daily by his children) was so particularly amused by the character of Sir Roger de Coverley that he took his literary decease most seriously to heart." PAGE 163. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xi. 1-3. Lapland. Probably derived from Scheffer's book. notes, vol. v. p. 295, and vol. vi. p. 288. See ·Scotland... Second Sight. See notes on Duncan Campbell, vol. v. p. 285, and vol. vii. p. 317. PAGE 164. Grand Cairo. See note, vol. i. p. 309. PAGE 165. Motto. Virgil, Georg. ii. 51-2. 625. Casuist. PAGE 169. Motto. See Nos. 591, 602, and Nos. 614, 623, and Virgil, Georg. i. 293-4. PAGE 170. As soon as their mourning is over. Queen Anne died on 1st August 1714. PAGE 172. The Story of her Web. Homer, Odyssey, ii. PAGE 173. Motto. Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 1-2. Dr. Plott's Natural History of Staffordshire. PAGE 175. Pryke, goad. See note, An account of the better-known custom at Dunmow will be found in Leland (ed. Hearne). See also Chambers's Book of Days, vol. i. p. 748. 66 PAGE 177. Motto. Ovid, Ars Amat. i. 633. PAGE 178. Honey-Money. So in the early texts; changed, unneces sarily, by later editors, to Honeymoon.' PAGE 179. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. i. 86. when you will not have many spare Minutes. George I. was crowned at Westminster on this day. PAGE 180. Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 181. Mrs. Salmon's Wax-work. See notes, vol. i. pp. 325, 326. The Hilpas and the Nilpas. See Nos. 584, 585. |