The Tatler, Volume 1George Atherton Aitken Duckworth, 1898 - English essays |
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Page ix
... Spectator ; and he also commenced his attack on John Partridge , quack doctor and maker of astrological almanacs . On the On the appearance of Partridge's " Merlinus Liberatus " for 1708 , Swift - borrowing a name from the signboard of ...
... Spectator ; and he also commenced his attack on John Partridge , quack doctor and maker of astrological almanacs . On the On the appearance of Partridge's " Merlinus Liberatus " for 1708 , Swift - borrowing a name from the signboard of ...
Page xv
... Spectator , where the whole plan was arranged in the manner best suited to his genius . But his influence is , nevertheless , visible in the development of the earlier paper , and some of his individual articles are equal to anything he ...
... Spectator , where the whole plan was arranged in the manner best suited to his genius . But his influence is , nevertheless , visible in the development of the earlier paper , and some of his individual articles are equal to anything he ...
Page xvi
... Spectator's Club , the dramatis persona introduced in the Tatler do not occupy a very pro- minent place in the development of the work . Isaac Bickerstaff himself , an old man of sixty - four , " a philo- sopher , an humourist , an ...
... Spectator's Club , the dramatis persona introduced in the Tatler do not occupy a very pro- minent place in the development of the work . Isaac Bickerstaff himself , an old man of sixty - four , " a philo- sopher , an humourist , an ...
Page xxiii
... Spectator , is that there is a greater proportion of these gossiping papers , combining wisdom with satire , and bringing before us as in a mirror the London of Queen Anne's day . Bickerstaff takes us from club to coffee - house , from ...
... Spectator , is that there is a greater proportion of these gossiping papers , combining wisdom with satire , and bringing before us as in a mirror the London of Queen Anne's day . Bickerstaff takes us from club to coffee - house , from ...
Page xxv
... Spectator . Steele himself said that on many accounts it had become an irksome task to personate Mr. Bickerstaff any longer ; he had in some places touched upon matters concerning Church and State , and he could not be cold enough to ...
... Spectator . Steele himself said that on many accounts it had become an irksome task to personate Mr. Bickerstaff any longer ; he had in some places touched upon matters concerning Church and State , and he could not be cold enough to ...
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