The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator

Joseph Addison

Putnam, 1854

Table des matières

• IN SIX VOLUMES: 9
• THE SPECTATOR Continued 21 Divinity Law and Physic overburdened with Practi: 21
• PAGE: 35
• THE SPECTATOR Continued: 42
• tioners: 65
• THE SPECTATOR Continued 69 Visit to the Royal ExchangeBenefit of Extensive: 69
• Illnatured Satire: 70
• Letter from a ValetudinarianExcess of Anxiety about Health: 75
• Reflections in WestminsterAbbey: 79
• Project of an Office for the Regulation of Signsa Mon key recommended for the Opera: 83
• Italian RecitativeAbsurdities of the Opera Dresses: 87
• Project of a new Opera: 92
• Success of the Spectators with various Classes of Read ers represented by the Club: 96
• False Wit and HumourGenealogy of Humour: 100
• Catalogue of a Ladys LibraryCharacter of Leonora: 104
• English TragedyLeeOtway: 109
• Tragedy and TragiComedy: 114
• English TragedyMethods to aggrandize the Persons in Tragedy: 119
• Stage Tricks to excite PityDramatic Murders: 123
• Ill Consequences of the PeaceFrench FashionsChild ish Impertinence: 129
• The Spectators Paper of Hints droppedGospelgossip Ogling: 136
• Theory of the Passion of Laughter 137: 137
• Remarks on the English by the Indian Kings: 142
• Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employments: 149
• Vision of Marraton: 153
• Mischiefs of PartyRage in the Female Sex: 158
• Essay on WitHistory of False Wit: 162
• The same subject continued: 167
• Wit of the Monkish Agesin Modern Times: 172
• The Subject continued: 177
• Difference between True and False WitMixt Wit: 181
• Allegory of several Schemes of Wit: 188
• On Friendship: 194
• Commerce: 198
• Critique on the Ballad of ChevyChase: 203
• Account of the Everlasting Club: 211
• Passion for Fame and PraiseCharacter of the Idols: 214
• Continuation of the Critique on ChevyChase: 218
• Female PartySpirit discovered by Patches: 225
• Dream of a Picture Gallery: 230
• Fate of WritingsBallad of the Children in the Wood: 235
• On Physiognomy: 239
• LoversDemurrageFolly of Demurrage: 244
• Punishment of a voluptuous Man after DeathAdven ture of M Pontigna: 249
• Books for a Ladys Library: 253
• Proper Methods of employing Time: 257
• Subject continuedPursuit of Knowledge: 262
• Ladies Headdresses: 268
• The Chief Point of Honour in Men and WomenDuel ling: 271
• Uncertainty of FameSpecimen of a History of the Reign of Anne I: 275
• Exercise of the Fan: 280
• Will Honeycombs Knowledge of the Worldvarious Kinds of Pedants: 283
• Spectators visit to Sir R de Coverleys Country Seat the Knights domestic Establishment: 287
• Character of Will Wimble: 291
• On Ghosts and Apparitions: 295
• Immateriality of the Soul: 300
• A Sunday in the CountrySir Rogers Behaviour at Church: 304
• Labour and Exercise: 312
• Rural MannersPoliteness: 316
• Instinct in Animals: 320
• THE SPECTATOR Continued 121 The Subject continuedWisdom of Providence: 324
• A Visit with Sir Roger to the Country Assizes: 330
• Education of Country SquiresStory of Eudoxus and Leontine: 335
• Use and Difficulties of Periodical Papers: 340
• Mischiefs of Party Spirit: 344
• The Subject continuedSir Rogers Principles: 350
• Letter on the Hooppetticoat: 354
• Difference of Temper in the SexesFemale Levity: 358
• Fashions in DressHow imitated in the Country: 362
• Interview of the Spectator and Sir Roger with a Gang of Gypsies: 366
• Opinions entertained of the Spectator in the Country Letter from Will Honeycomb: 369
• 151 Tongue: 373
• The Vision of Mirza: 377
• On great natural Geniuses: 384
• On Inconstancy and Irresolution: 388
• Consolation: 392
• Story of Theodosius and Constantia: 396
• Introduction of French Phrases in the History of the WarSpecimen in a Letter: 403
• Durability of WritingAnecdote of an atheistical Au thor: 407
• On Goodnature as the Effect of Constitution: 411
• On Jealousy: 420
• Account of a Grinningmatch: 427
• Goodnature as a Moral Virtue: 431
• Various Dispositions of ReadersAccount of a Whist lingmatchYawning: 436
• Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage: 441
• On FableFable of Pleasure and Pain: 446
• THE SPECTATOR Continued 184 Account of a remarkable Sleeper: 451
• Zealvarious Kinds of Zealots: 454
• On Infidelity: 458
• Cruelty of ParentsLetter from a Father to his Son Duty to Parents: 463
• On the Whims of LotteryAdventurers: 466
• On Temperance: 471
• Character of the Salamanders Story of a Castilian and his Wife: 476
• DevotionEnthusiasm: 480
• On Seducers and their illicit ProgenyLetter from a natural Son: 482
• Description of a Female Panderaffected Method of PsalmsingingErratum in the Paper on Drink ing: 489
• Notions of the Heathen on Devotion: 494
• Simonidess Satire on Women: 499
• Transmigration of SoulsLetters on Simonidess Satire on Women: 504
• On habitual good Intentions: 509
• Educationcompared to Sculpture: 513
• QualityVanity of Honours and Titles: 517
• Use of MottoesLove of Latin among the Common peo pleSignature Letters: 521
• Account of Sappho: 528
• Discretion and Cunning: 530
• Letter on the Lovers Leap: 534
• Fragment of Sappho: 539
• Reflections on Modesty: 543
• History of the Lovers Leap: 548
• Account of the Trunkmaker in the Theatre: 552
• On the Ways of Providence: 556
• Various Ways of managing a Debate: 560
• Letter on the Absence of LoversRemedies proposed: 564
• On the Beauty and Loveliness of Virtue: 568

Fréquemment cités

Page 580 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

Page 389 - Some of their chiefs were princes of the land: In the first rank of these did Zimri stand: A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all Mankind's Epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long: But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon: Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking; Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.

Page 299 - Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.

Page 328 - A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

Page 377 - The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him. He lifted me from the ground, and taking me by the hand, Mirza, said he, I have heard thee in thy soliloquies ; follow me.

Page 379 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trap-doors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped, had they not been thus forced upon them. "The genius, seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it. ' Take thine eyes off the bridge,' said he, ' and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend.' Upon looking up,...

Page 124 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!

Page 378 - I passed some time in the contemplation of this wonderful structure, and the great variety of objects which it presented. My heart was filled with a deep melancholy to see several dropping unexpectedly in the midst of mirth and jollity, and catching at every thing that stood by them to save themselves.

Page 377 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively.

Page 80 - ... human body. Upon this I began to consider with myself, what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathedral ; how men and women, friends and enemies, priests and soldiers, monks and prebendaries, were crumbled amongst one another, and blended together in the same common mass ; how beauty, strength, and youth, with old age, weakness, and deformity, lay undistinguished in the same promiscuous heap of matter.

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator; Volume 5 de The Works of Joseph Addison, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay; Volume 5 de The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works, George Washington Greene
• Auteur: Joseph Addison
• Rédacteur: George Washington Greene
• Éditeur: Putnam, 1854
• Original provenant de: l'Université du Michigan
• Numérisé: 22 mai 2007