314. Letters from a Lover and Answer-from John Trott on his Courtship Qualifica- 316. Letters on Idleness-From a Lover...... UNKNOWN 322. Letter from Octavia complaining of the In- 323. Clarindas' Journal of a week 47 X858 325. On Looking-glasses-Passage from Milton BUDGELL. 326. Letter on Fortune-hunters-Hints to a Lover-Causes of longing in Women.... STEELE. 327. Criticism on Paradise Lost..... 335. Sir Roger de Coverly at the Theatre 336. On the unaccommodating Disposition of 348. Letter on Detraction.. 349. Consolation and Intrepidity in Death on Courage without Humanity EARL OF HARDWICKE. From a new married Couple-From a Prude STEELE. 365. Dangerous Influence of the Month of May BUDGELL. 366. Inconsistencies in Love-Thoughts-Trans- 370. On the Stage-Dancing recommended · STEELE. 371. Humorous Way of sorting Companies-for Mirth-for useful Purposes.... .... ADDISON. 372. Letters in Commendation of Powell, the 374. On the proper Use of Time, Fragments from STEELE BUDGELL, Cæsar STEELE. 375. History of Amanda HUGHES. 376. Letters, on a Partnership between a Goose on Dancing STEELE.. 377. Bill of Mortality of Lovers ADDISON. .... 378. The Messiah, a sacred Eclogue 380. Letters, requesting Advice in a Case of POPE. BUDGELL. Orange Girl St. Bride's Charity-School STEELE THE SPECTATOR. No. 311. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1711-12. Nec Veneris pharetris macer est, aut lampade fervet : Juv. Sat. vi. 137. He sighs, adores, and courts her ev'ry hour: DRYDEN. MR. SPECTATOR, "I AM amazed that, among all the variety of characters with which you have enriched your speculations, you have never given us a picture of those audacious young fellows among us who commonly go by the name of the fortune-steal ers. You must know, sir, I am one who live in a continual apprehension of this sort of people, that lie in wait, day and night, for our children, and may be considered as a kind of kidnappers within the law. I am the father of a young heiress, whom I begin to look upon as marriageable, and who has looked upon herself as such for above these six years. She is now in the eighteenth year of her age. The fortune-hunters have already cast their eyes upon her, and take |