“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,

OF THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

JOSEPH ADDISON.

WITH NOTES

By RICHARD HURD, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER.

* Plem Edition,

WITH LARGE ADDITIONS, CHIEFLY UNPUBLISHED,

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY HENRY G. BOHN.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

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CONTENTS, VOL. II.

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THE TATLER.

Introductory Remarks 20. Dramatic News and Criticism 43. Inventory of the Play-house 75. Miss Jenny's Marriage-Choice of Matches in the

Bickerstaff family 81. Vision of the Table of Fame 86. Scene of Country Etiquette

A Dancing-master practising by Book 90. Unity of Šentiment in treating the Passion of Love

-Its allegorical History 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. 108. Degradation of the Stage-Dignity of Human Na

ture-Errors of the French Writers '110. Court of Judicature of the Dead in Reason 111. On the Prevalence of Irreligious Principles 114. Death-bed Scene 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 121. Consultation on the Sickness of a Lady's Lap-Dog

-Fondness for Animals 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 146. Various Cases of Complainers - Dream of Jupiter

and the Destinies 147. Juno's method to regain Jupiter's Affection 148. On the Diet of the Metropolis-Pernicious Dishes

False Delicacies . 152. Homer's Description of a future State

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“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 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.