spondents; Letters from a Lover and young Lady .................. UNKNOWN. 582. On the ltch of Writing ............ ADDISON. on Planting ......... 585. The same concluded ........ .......... 500. The use of Dreams .................. BYROM. 587. The Vision of Hearts ............... UNKNOWN. 588. On Self-love and Benevolence ..... GROVE. 589, On Planting-Folly of destroying 590. On Eternity ........................... ADDISON. cisms...................................... ...... ADDISON. 593. On Dreams, how to be improved... BYROM.. 594. On Calumny ........................... UNKNOWN. 595. On the Abuse of Metaphors......... 596. Distresses of a very amorous Gen. tleman ............................... 597. The Dreams of various Correspon. dents ..............• 598. On a merry and serious Cast of Temper .............................. ADDISON ness .................................... ADDISON. obstruct it ........................ ... GROVE. in making Love .......................... UNKNOWN. 603. Phæbe, a Poem ........... e, a roem ........................ BYROM. 604. On a Desire of knowing future Events ................................ UNKNOWN. 606. Embroidery recommended to the Ladies ................................ UNKNOWN. - riage happy—the Flitch of Bacon 608. List of Persons who demanded the Flitch of Bacon ..................... 609. Letters, on the improper Dress of young Clergymen-On Antipa- thies—Against Embroidery ...... 610. Applause of Men not to be re- garded-Story of Gyges ......... 611. Letter from a Lady insulted by her Seducer-Reflections on the Sub- ject .................................... of Beggars, from a Lady marked by the Small-pox .................. Enborne .............................. 615. On Fear .............................. 617. On strained and pompous Phrases -Specimen ........................... 619. Answers to various Correspondents 620. The Royal Progress, a Poem ...... TICKELL. 621. On Improper Pride ................... UNKNOWN. tleman .......... ......................... 624. Division of Mankind into Classes- Pursuits of Avarice, Ambition, &c. No. his Death .......... ............ UNKNOWN Translation of Cato's Soliloquy ... BLAND. proper Behaviour in Church ...... -Verses on a Grotto............... Christianity ........................... PEARČE. Mind in a future State .............. GROVE. THE SPECTATOR. N° 567. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1714. Inceptus clamor frustrutur hiantes. Virg. Æn. vi. 493. The weak voice deceives their gasping throats. DRYDEN I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents, that if I would give my paper a general run, I should take care to season it with scandal. I have indeed observed of late, that few writings sell which are not filled with great names and illustrious titles. The reader generally casts his eye upon a new book, and if he finds several letters separated from one another by a dash, he buys it up and peruses it with great satisfaction. An M and an h, a T and an r, * with a short line: • Mand h means Marlborough, and T and an r means Treasurer. VOL. XV. between them, has sold many an insipid pamphlet. Nay, I have known a whole edition go off by virtue of two or three well-written &c- . A sprinkling of the words · faction, Frenchman, papist, plunderer,' and the like significant terms, in an Italic character, have also a very good effect upon the eye of the purchaser; not to mention 'scribbler, liar, rogue, rascal, knave, and villain,' without which it is impossible to carry on a modern controversy. Our party writers are so sensible of the secret virtue of an inuendo to recommend their produce tions, that of late they never mention the Q_ n. or P- t at length, though the speak of them with honour, and with that deference which is due to hem from every private person. It gives a secret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works, that he is able to decypher them without help, and, by the strength of his own natural parts, to fill up a blank space, or make out a word that has only the first or last letter to it. · Some of our authors indeed, when they would be more satirical than ordinary, omit only the vowels of a great man's name, and fall most unmercifully upon all the consonants. This way of writing was first of all introduced by T-m Br—wn,* of facetious memory, who, after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels, used to plant it in his works, and make as free with it as he pleased, without any danger of the statute. . That I may imitate these celebrated authors, and publish a paper which shall be more taking than ordinary, I have here drawn up a very curious libel, in which a reader of penetration will find a great {eal of concealed satire, and, if he be acquainted * Tom Brown. |
