PAGE 251. Alas! I am afraid. Macbeth, II. ii. 9-13. -Hamlet. III. i. 56-82. PAGE 252. The Orator's Weapon, etc. are taken from Cicero's De Oratore, iii. 59, 220, etc. No. 541. This passage and the following No. 542. PAGE 253. Motto. Ovid, Metam. ii. 430. -Writ to himself. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 255. The wild Boar, etc. See notes, vol. i. p. 322. -I have heard of a Person. This might well be the 'learned He -I have been scrupulous perhaps to a Fault. If this is to be taken seriously, it is disingenuous. See the Notes passim, and, in especial, those dealing with Addison's unacknowledged use of Le Bossu's treatise (vol. iv. pp. 292-3, and v. p. 286). PAGE 256. Tully's observations. See the preceding paper. -Philo-Spec's letter is a very definite intimation of the close of the Spectator. See note, supra, p. 316. PAGE 257. Motto. Ovid, Metam. ii. 13-14. No. 543. PAGE 261. Motto. Terence, Adelphi, v. 1-4. No. 544. -That passage in your writings. Sir Roger's meeting with PAGE 263. Camperfelt, or Kempenfelt. Cf. note, vol. i. p. 311. PAGE 264. Though I am become a Country Gentleman. Cf. No. -In the same Tully. PAGE 265. Steele (if he was the author of this satirical letter from the PAGE 268. John Sly. Ante, p. 319. It -Mr. Cibber was introducing a French Play. This was Ximena, or the Heroic Daughter, founded on Corneille's Cid. was first acted at Drury Lane on 28th Nov., and ran for a few nights. It was revived on Nov. 1. 1718, when it was altered in some parts. -Mrs. Oldfield. See B. 1. -He expected I would do him Justice. Cf. Cibber's Apology. "We knew too the Obligations the Stage had to his Writings; there being scarce a Comedian of Merit, in our whole Company, whom his Tatlers had not made better, by his publick Recommendation of them. And many Days had our House been particularly fill'd, by the Influence, and Credit of his Pen" (p. 289, ed. 1740). The same sentiment occurs in his Dedication of the Heroic Daughter; where, too, will be found the passage in which, in a metaphor borrowed from Dryden's Don Sebastian, Cibber likens Addison to No. 545. No. 546. No. 546. No. 547. No. 548. No. 549, a wren borne aloft on the wings of the eagle Steele, and finally mounting above his helpmate. (Theatre, ed. Nichols, II. 330.) Steele gave a kindly snub to Cibber's extravagant zeal in No. 12 of the Theatre (ib. I. p. 101, etc.). PAGE 270. PAGE 272. The Honesty of an Author. Cf. note, supra, p. 321. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. ii. 149-151. PAGE 273. Sir William Read. See No. 472 (vol. vi.) and P. I. In Dr. Grant. See ib., and B. I. Also Tatler, No. 55. Mr. Moore. See B. I. PAGE 274. Mrs. Baldwin. The Spectator was sold by A. Baldwin in Warwick Lane, who also took in advertisements. Delightful Blushing Colour. A hit at a familiar advertise ment, in the daily issue, of the 'Red Bavarian Liquor.' PAGE 275. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. iii. 68-9. PAGE 276. Poetical Justice. Mr. Spectator is poking fun at Dennis. Winding up your Bottoms. Bottom, a skein or ball of thread: Cf. Prior, An Epitaph, 47-48— "Each Christmas they accompts did clear Boileau. Satires, iv. 39-40. PAGE 278. Virgil, Æn. ii. 426-8 and 429-30. PAGE 279. The last paragraph is added in the octavo reprint. An old Usurer. Horace, Epod. ii. 67-70. PAGE 283. No. 551. No, 552. No. 553. "Behold Sir Balaam, now a man of spirit, Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 138. Cf. Pope A Coffee House in Paul's. Probably Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 284. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 400-1. That excellent Epitaph (p. 289). Taken from Cowley's Essay Of Myself.' PAGE 291. Motto. Horace, Epist. II. i. 13-14. Peter Motteux. See Motteux's letter in No. 288 (vol. iv. p. 288, and note). See B. I. Poem upon Tea. Advertised in No. 475 (A) as just published, ' price 6d.' PAGE 294. Motto. Horace, Epist. I. xiv. 36. PAGE 296. Dextro tempore. Horace, Sat. II. i. 18. PAGE 297. No. 553. No. 554. PAGE 298. Ugly Faces. See No. 17 (vol. i. p. 66), etc. The Author of a Poem just Published. John Hughes. See -- A celebrated French Author. PAGE 299. Mr. Boyle. See note, supra, p. 318; and B. I. - CLIO. Chalmers pertinently remarks, "The letters C, L, I, O, PAGE 304. The Tender Husband was produced at Drury Lane on April - Epilogue to the Distressed Mother. See notes, vols. iv. PAGE 305. Tax on each half Sheet. See note, vol. vi. p. 294. PAGE 308. Sir Godfrey Kneller. See No. 33 (vol. i.) and B. I. - The Postscript is added in the octavo. is placed after the letter of Dec. 4, 1712. In A 'vos valete' etc. No. 555. NOTES TO VOL. VIII THE Spectator proper concluded with No. 555 in the seventh volume, Dedica in which Steele bade farewell to his readers. After an interval of tion, eighteen months, Addison opened' Mr. Spectator's mouth, and addressed his old public in the following papers. These supplementary essays appeared on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The series ran to but eighty numbers, and Addison and his bookseller were careful to inform the public that it, with the earlier "constellation" of " seven stars," completed the tale of the gossip of the Spectator Club. In the present volume there are not a few examples of the happy humour which characterizes the previous volumes, but the general tone is too didactic. It proved too dull for the tea-tables which had been taught to enjoy the "janty Air and easy Motion" of the earlier numbers. The dedication of this volume to the imaginary William Honeycomb, Esq., instead of to a real patron, as in all the other volumes, is at once Addison's compliment to his happy collaboration with Steele, and a proclamation of the true kinship of this posthumous child. PAGE 5. Motto. Virgil, Æn. ii. 471-5. Opening my mouth. In the preceding volumes Mr. Spectator is drawn as possessed of a remarkable "taciturnity." See note, vol. i. p. 309. Croesus. Herodotus, I. lxxxv. PAGE 6. Button's. The famous Covent Garden Coffee-house established by Addison's old servant Daniel Button was much frequented by the contributors to the Spectator, notably Philips, Tickell, Budgell, and Carey. It was the receiving-office for papers intended for the Guardian, and it was there that Ambrose Philips (according to a lively tradition) affixed the rod which was to chastise Pope for his unfriendly article in that paper. Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. The Englishman was Steele's Whig continuation of the The Examiner was the Tory organ to which Swift contributed. PAGE 7. Nil fuit, etc. Horace, Sat. I. iii. 18. The text reads 'Sic impar.' — Jew at Jonathan's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 8. A most unnatural ferment. An allusion to the excited political condition during this month, caused by the fears of the Queen's early death. Thomas Harley writes next day to Swift:-"But, seriously, you never heard such bellowing about the town of the state of the nation, especially among the sharpers, sellers of bearskins [stock-jobbers], and the rest of that kind; nor such crying No. 556. |
