JOSEPH OF ADDISON, INCLUDING THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS. EDITED, WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE. No whiter page than Addison remains, He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth, And sets the passions on the side of truth; Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art, And pours each human virtue thro' the heart."-POPE. IN SIX VOLUMES. VO. VI. NEW-YORK: G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE. 1854. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern THE SPECTATOR: 253. On Detraction among bad Poets-Pope's Essay on Criti- 255. cism, Uses of Ambition-Fame difficult to be obtained, 256. Subject-Disadvantages of Ambition, 257. Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity, 262. The Spectator's Success-Caution in Writing-an- |