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The Tatler, Volume 2

Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729; Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719; Aitken, George Atherton, 1860-1917 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 132,893 words

When I send you this volume, I am rather to make you a request than a Dedication. I must desire, that if you think fit to throw away any moments on it, you would not do it after reading those excellent pieces with which you are usually conversant. The images which you will mee...

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2. act iv. sc. 3.)

[145] "There is no criticism of Shakespeare in that day at all comparable to this of Steele's, at the outset and to the close of the _Tatler_. With no set analysis or fine-spun...

1. Volume Two

When I send you this volume, I am rather to make you a request than a Dedication. I must desire, that if you think fit to throw away any moments on it, you would not do it after...