Essays and Tales

Addison, Joseph

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• eBook ISBN:
  9782819943303
• Year: 2010

pubOne.info present you this new edition. The sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff, who was the central figure in that series; and in the twenty-ninth volume there is a similar collection of papers relating to the Spectator Club and Sir Roger de Coverley, who was the central figure in Steele and Addison's Spectator. Those volumes contained, no doubt, some of the best Essays of Addison and Steele. But in the Tatler and Spectator are full armouries of the wit and wisdom of these two writers, who summoned into life the army of the Essayists, and led it on to kindly war against the forces of Ill-temper and Ignorance. Envy, Hatred, Malice, and all their first cousins of the family of Uncharitableness, are captains under those two commanders-in-chief, and we can little afford to dismiss from the field two of the stoutest combatants against them. In this volume it is only Addison who speaks; and in another volume, presently to follow, there will be the voice of Steele

Table of contents

• INTRODUCTION.
• PUBLIC CREDIT.
• HOUSEHOLD SUPERSTITIONS.
• OPERA LIONS.
• WOMEN AND WIVES.
• THE ITALIAN OPERA.
• LAMPOONS.
• TRUE AND FALSE HUMOUR.
• SA GA YEAN QUA RASH TOW’S IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON.
• THE VISION OF MARRATON.
• SIX PAPERS ON WIT.
• Second Paper.
• Third Paper.
• Fourth Paper.
• Fifth Paper.
• Sixth Paper.
• FRIENDSHIP.
• CHEVY-CHASE.
• Part Two.
• A DREAM OF THE PAINTERS.
• SPARE TIME.
• Part Two.
• CENSURE.
• THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
• THE VISION OF MIRZA.
• GENIUS.
• THEODOSIUS AND CONSTANTIA.
• GOOD NATURE.
• Part Two.
• A GRINNING MATCH.
• TRUST IN GOD.
• Copyright