PAGE 46. The Whole Duty of Man. See vol. i. p. 330. By 'J. F.' No. 568, (Bishop Fell, infra): but the authorship is uncertain. (See Boswell's 'Johnson' (ed. Birkbeck Hill, ii. 239).) PAGE 47. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 434-6. Whets. See note, vol. i. p. 343. Also vol. iii. p. 200. PAGE 49. Publilius Syrus 3.-'Absentem laedit, cum ebrio qui litigat.' - Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 322. Cetera de genere, etc. Horace, Sat. I. i. 13-14. No. 569. No. 570. Master of the House. Mr. Daintry. See B.I. Charles Mathers. Ante, vols. v. p. 28, vii. p. 109. See B.I. Motto. No. 571. A Former Spectator-i.e. No. 565. Cf. also Nos. 580, Seneca, Epist. xli. 2. 590, and 628. PAGE 55. ? Essay against Quacks. Cf. No. 444, vol. vi. p. 170. PAGE 58. Fotus, fomentation. PAGE 59. Mr. Dryden's Translation. Æneïs, xii. 585-597, 607-633. Chalmers repeats an editorial statement that this paper was written by Dr. Zachary Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, and was altered by Addison. See note to No. 633. No. 572. No. 573. No. 574. Ist edit. 1661. No. 575, No. 576. No. 577. PAGE 78. John a Nokes... Kinsman Blank. Ante, pp. 28-9. No. 578. The Persian Tales. Another puff of Ambrose Philips, whose Thousand and One Days' Persian Tales, translated from the French, is advertised in No. 576 (A) as published that day. Two Last Letters. See Nos. 565 and 571, and note on p. 52. No. 581 PAGE 92. Passages in a Lover. Steele's Lover, written in imitation of the Tatler, by Marmaduke Myrtle, Gent., ran to 40 numbers (25th Feb. to 27th May 1714). PAGE 93. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. vii. 51-2. No. 582. PAGE 95. William Ramsey's Vindication of Astrology. William Ramsey or Ramesey was the author of several works, including The letter in this number is ascribed to John Byrom (see B.I.). No. 584. No. 585, No. 586. No. 587, PAGE 108. Motto. Persius, Sat. iii. 30. Fomes Peccati. "Naturall tempers New Eng. Dict. ... Cf. Owen, Temptation (1658) vii. 126. PAGE III. Motto. Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 44 (124). See B.I. PAGE 116. Motto. Ovid, Metam. viii. 774-6. No. 588. No. 589. PAGE 117. No. 591. No. 592. -- PAGE 121. PAGE 122. Apollonius (Rhodius), ii. Essays upon Infinitude. See note on No. 580 supra. See Embassady. A unique usage, probably a mistake for 'Embassade.' The form Ambassady is found in Luttrell's Brief Relation (iii. 65): on which the editor of the New Eng. Dict. remarks, "? mistake for Ambassadry, or confusion between it and Ambassade.” PAGE 123. Motto. Ovid, Trist. III. iii. 73. This paper has been ascribed to Eustace Budgell, and the verses in it to his brother Gilbert (see B.I.). PAGE 126. Motto. Horace, Ars Poet. 409. The opening paragraph in this paper would seem to have suggested the lines in the Dunciad III. (253 etc.). Pope adds as a note to l. 256, "Like Salmoneus in En. vi." "Tis yours to shake the soul With Thunder rumbling from the mustard-bowl." "The old way of making thunder and mustard were the same; but since, it is more advantageously performed by troughs of wood with stops in them. Whether Mr. Dennis was the inventor of that improvement, I know not; but it is certain, that being once at a tragedy of a new author, he fell into a great passion at hearing some, and cried, "'Sdeath! that is my Thunder."" The fuller story runs thus:-"In 1709, Mr. John Dennis's tragedy entitled 'Appius and Virginia' was acted. The author on that occasion introduced a new or an improved method of making thunder. His tragedy did not succeed, but his other invention met with the approbation of the managers, and continues in use upon the stage to this day. Mr. Dennis soon after discovered it in the tragedy of Macbeth: the discovery threw him into a fury, and, being addicted to swearing, he exclaimed: "'Sdeath! that's my thunder. See how the fellows use me; they have silenced my No. 592. tragedy, and they roar out my thunder." (The references will be found in Elwin and Courthope's Pope, iv. 332.) PAGE 126. Salmoneus. Cf. ante, vol. i. p. 134. Rimer's Edgar. Thomas Rymer's unfortunate 'heroick Tragedy' Edgar, or the English Monarch was licensed on Sept. 13, 1677, and printed in 1678. (See Genest, i. p. 223.) The phrase "at the next acting of King Lear" is obviously a reference to Rymer's censure of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in his Tragedies of the Last Age Considered and his Short View of Tragedy. So, too, are the subsequent paragraphs on the 'rigid criticks.' PAGE 127. Run of three Days. The author's reward for such success was a benefit on the third night. - Among the French. Addison does not name Le Bossu. See notes, vols. iv. pp. 292, 296, v. 286. PAGE 128. Terence. Andria. Prologue, 20-1. PAGE 129. Pliny. Nat. Hist. xxxvii. 3. PAGE 131. Cato. By Addison. Act. V. sc. iii. 9-13, and V. iv. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 270-1. No. 593. 27-34. Motto. Horace, Sat. I. iv. 81-5. No. 594. André Felibien, Description de PAGE 134. Abbaye de la Trape, Paris, 1689. No. 595, No. 596. No. 597. PAGE 139. PAGE 136. Motto. Ovid, Heroides, xv. 79. Motto. Petronius, ? PAGE 140. New River. See vol. i. p. 21. Those noisy Slaves. Cf. No. 251, vol. iii. p. 305. PAGE 141. A Small-coal-man. This has been said to be an allusion to Tom Britton, whose portrait by Woolaston was engraved by Vertue. See Prior's Lines written under the Print (Aldine edit. PAGE 142. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. x. 28-30. ii. p. 275). No. 598. PAGE 144. Trophonius's Cave. See vol. vii. pp. 116, 314. Motto. Virgil, Æn. ii. 368-9. No. 599. PAGE 145. Trophonius. See No. 598 and note. PAGE 146. French Protestants. Cf. vol. v. p. 29. Also note ii. p. 338. No. 600, PAGE 148. Motto. Virgil, Æn. vi. 641. A learned Person. Identified as Lancelot Addison, the Essayist's father, author of West Barbary; or a short Narrative of the Revolutions of the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco. Oxford, 1671. PAGE 149. Dr. Tillotson somewhere says. Sermon clxv. (ed. Birch). PAGE 150. One of the greatest modern Philosophers. Locke, in his Human Understanding (ii.). PAGE 153. Motto. Marcus Aurelius, ix. 42. PAGE 156. Homo qui, etc. Ennius, quoted in Cicero, De Officiis, No. 601, No. 602. No. 603. No. 604, No. 605. No. 606. No. 607. No. 608, No. 609. PAGE 157. Motto. Juvenal, Sat. vi. 110. PAGE 158. Emperor of the Mohocks. See note, vol. v. p. 285. Scowring. See note, vol. iv. p. 294. PAGE 159. Mr. Dryden's Translation. The first passage is 11. 156171, and the second ll. 242-260 of his First Book of Ovid's Art of Love. PAGE 160. Motto. Virgil, Eclog. viii. 68. These verses have been ascribed to John Byrom, referred to above (see B.1.). 'Phebe' is believed to be Joanna ('Jug'), daughter of Richard Bentley, afterwards, wife of Denison Cumberland, grandson of the Bishop of Peterborough. It was she who told her son, Richard Cumberland, that her father (to whom the Spectator was read daily by his children) "was so particularly amused by the character of Sir Roger de Coverley that he took his literary decease most seriously to heart." PAGE 163. Motto. Horace, Odes, I. xi. 1-3. Lapland. Probably derived from Scheffer's book. See notes, vol. v. p. 295, and vol. vi. p. 288. Scotland. Second Sight. See notes on Duncan Campbell, vol. v. p. 285, and vol. vii. p. 317. PAGE 164. Grand Cairo. See note, vol. i. p. 309. PAGE 165. Motto. Virgil, Georg. ii. 51-2. Casuist. PAGE 169. Motto. See Nos. 591, 602, and Nos. 614, 623, and Virgil, Georg. i. 293-4. PAGE 170. As soon as their mourning is over. Queen Anne died on 1st August 1714. PAGE 172. The Story of her Web. Homer, Odyssey, ii. PAGE 173. Motto. Ovid, Ars Amat. ii. 1-2. PAGE 174. Dr. Plott's Natural History of Staffordshire. See note, vol. vi. p. 295. PAGE 175. Pryke, goad. *** of Mr. - An account of the better-known custom at Dunmow will be PAGE 178. Honey-Money. So in the early texts; changed, unneces- A Day... when. you will not have many spare Minutes. George I. was crowned at Westminster on this day. Child's. See note, vol. i. p. 310. PAGE 180. PAGE 181. Mrs. Salmon's Wax-work. See notes, vol. i. pp. 325, 326. PAGE 182. Our own Country. There was a tapestry factory at No. 609. Motto. Seneca, Thyestes, 398-403. No. 610. Longinus, On the Sublime, vii. Motto. Virgil, Æn. iv. 366-7. PAGE 183. The Story of Gyges. Cf. the Tatler, No. 138 and 243. PAGE 185. No. 611. PAGE 186. Front Box. See note, vol. ii. p. 323. PAGE 187. Last Wednesday in the Abbey. See note to No. 609. No. 612, PAGE 192. No. 613. Motto. Virgil, Æn. xii. 529-32. PAGE 193. What shall I do, etc. Cowley, The Motto (Miscel PAGE 196. Monimia is the name of the leading female character in Otway's Orphan. Motto. Virgil, Æn. iv. 15-19. PAGE 198. Andromache. Mr Philips. See note, vol. v. p. 290. PAGE 199. Motto. Horace, Odes, IV. ix. 47-52. 203. Past two a clock, etc. is a formula of the night-watchman. PAGE 204. Clip'd the King's English. 'Mobile' in No. 617. See references in note to Sir Richard. Is this an allusion to Steele's recent Protestant ebullitions? Motto. Persius, Sat. i. 99-102. PAGE 205. Marrow-bone and Cleaver. Frequently referred to about this time as the instruments of mob-music. Cf. Tatler, No. 153, and see the sixth plate of Hogarth's Idle and Industrious Apprentices. The Mobile. This word (placed in contrast with 'mob' in the letter on p. 203) was hardly an antiquated form at this time. See vol. ii. p. 193 and note; also the quotations in Skeat's Etymological Dictionary (art. 'mob'). The Cleveland (i.e. the author John Cleveland). Dryden, in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy, uses the word Clevelandism for 'a No. 614. No. 615, No. 616. No. 617. |