"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 manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without infiicting 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. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON. WITH NOTES BY RICHARD HURD, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER. A New Edition, WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, CHIEFLY UNPUBLISHED, IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. HARVARD 043+362 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. THE TATLER. CONTENTS, VOL. II. Introductory Remarks 43. Inventory of the Play-house 75. Miss Jenny's Marriage-Choice of Matches in the 93. Letter from Switzerland-On Travelling-Fools not to be exported-Precautions against Assaults 97. Hercules courted by Pleasure and Virtue, an Allegory 100. Goddess of Justice distributing Rewards 101. Danger of Authors from Pirates 102. Continuance of the Vision of the Goddess of Justice. 103. Applications for Permission to use Canes, &c. 116. Court of Judicature on the Petticoat 117. On the Pleasure derived from the Deliverance of the Good from Danger-The Author's Dream 119. Discoveries of the Microscope-A Dream 120. The Three Roads of Human Life-Dogget's Benefit 122. The Author's Appearance at Dogget's Benefit-Vir- tuous feelings of an Athenian Audience 123, Continuation of the Vision of the Three Roads of Life 131. Trial of the Wine-brewers 133. On Silence-Instances of its Significancy 147. Juno's method to regain Jupiter's Affection |
