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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.
EDITED,
WITII CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,
BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE.
NEW-YORK:
G. P. PUTNAM & CO., 10 PARK PLACE.
1854.
Ber
8245 Azalną
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853,
BY GEO. P. PUTNAM & CO., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New-Yorh.
JOHN F, TROW, PRINTER & STEREOTYPER, 49 Ann Street.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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TAE SPECTATOR:
Introductory Remarks,
1. The Spectator's Account of himself,
2. Of the Club-Sir Roger de Coverley—the Templar—Sir
Andrew Freeport-Captain Sentry_Will Honeycomb
—The Clergyman,
3. Public Credit, a Vision,
7. On the Absurdities of the Modern Opera,
7. Popular Superstitions,
8. Letters on Masquerades,
9. Account of various Clubs,
10. The Uses of the Spectator,
12. Custom of telling Stories of Ghosts to Children,
13. Conduct of the Lions at the Opera—Merit of Nicolini,
15. Story of Cleanthe--on Happiness, exemplified in Aurelia
-Fulvia,
16. Various Articles of Dress—Lampoons-Scandal-Poli-
tics-Letter from Charles Lillie,
18. History of the Italian Opera,
32
36
41
45
49
53
57
61
THE SPECTATOR (Continued),
21. Divinity, Law, and Physic overburdened with Practi-
tioners,
65
23. Ill-natured Satire,
70
25. Letter from a Valetudinarian-Excess of Anxiety about
Health,
75
26. Reflections in Westminster-Abbey,
79
28. Project of an Office for the Regulation of Signs—a Mon-
key recommended for the Opera,
83
29. Italian Recitative-Absurdities of the Opera Dresses, 87
31. Project of a new Opera,
92
34. Success of the Spectators with various Classes of Read-
ers, represented by the Club,
96
35. False Wit and Humour-Genealogy of Humour,
100
37. Catalogue of a Lady's Library-Character of Leonora, . 104
39. English Tragedy-Lee--Otway,
109
40. Tragedy and Tragi-Comedy,
114
42. English Tragedy-Methods to aggrandize the Persons in
Tragedy,
119
44. Stage Tricks to excite Pity-Dramatic Murders,
123
45. Ill Consequences of the Peace French Fashions—Child-
ish Impertinence,
129
46. The Spectator's Paper of Hints dropped-Gospel-gossip
--Ogling,
138
47. Theory of the Passion of Laughter,
137
50. Remarks on the English, by the Indian Kings,
142
55. Effects of Avarice and Luxury on Employments,
149
56. Vision of Marraton,
153
57. Mischiefs of Party-Rage in the Female Sex,
158
58. Essay on Wit—History of False Wit,
162
59. The same subject continued,
167
60. Wit of the Monkish Ages—in Modern Times,
172
61. The Subject continued,
177
62. Difference between True and False Wit-Mixt Wit, 181
63. Allegory of several Schemes of Wit,
188
68. On Friendship,
194