Category: Humour
When I first resolved upon doing myself this honour, I could not but indulge a certain vanity in dating from this little covert, where I have frequently had the honour of your Lordship's company, and received from you very many obligations. The elegant solitude of this place,...
When I first resolved upon doing myself this honour, I could not but indulge a certain vanity in dating from this little covert, where I have frequently had the honour of your L...
2. Part I. Printed for B. Lintott" (_Daily Courant_, August 31, 1710).[105] I cannot find any notice in the _London Gazette_ or elsewhere of the bankruptcy of Bernard Lintott, who is no doubt here referred to. It almost seems as if Addison inserte...
3. Part iv. pp. 205-236.The following letter, and several others to the same purpose, accuse me of a rigour of which I am far from being guilty, to wit, the disallowing the cheerful use of wine.
4. iii. 2995. iv. 86, 87, 158Astell, Mrs. Mary (Madonella), her _Serious proposal to Ladies_, &c., i. 265 _note_ and _seq._: not at home, iii. 273 _note_, 274 _note_: forewoman of jury of Court of Honour, i...
6. iv. 172, 222Canes, not of the family of Staff, i. 104: commonly hung from buttons by a ribbon, i. 217 and _note_: persons permitted to wear them, ii. 221, 222: clouded canes, ii. 418: as ne...
7. ii. 59:Coffee-houses, different ones for retailing news of different subjects, i. 12, 13: the histories of, i. 12 _note_, 13 _note_: natural resort after plays, i. 32: politicians of t...
8. ii. 418Cynthio (_i.e._ Viscount Hinchinbroke), the story of, i. 14, 15 and _note_: absorbed by passion for a lady who passed his window in a coach, i. 14, 15: the only true lover of th...
9. iv. 43;England, papers published for the use of the people of, i. 11: duels in, conducted with good breeding, i 235: mixed blood in, ii. 193: referred to, iii. 335, 337
10. ii. 139:how moved to tears, ii. 139: modesty their most becoming quality, ii. 246: running after puppet-shows, iii. 7: proper ornaments suitable to, iii. 16: tendency to lavish affectio...
11. ii. 171, 421France, i. 27, 28, 51, 61, 76, 88, 120, 121, 129, 130, 154, 164, 173, 174, 184, 204, 213, 214, 219, 237, 240, 244 _note_, 354; ii. 9, 27, 54, 106, 107, 211, 222, 249; iii. 73, 9...
12. iv. 221Juvenal, a master of satire, iv. 235 _seq._: _Sat._ quoted, i. 11; ii. 346; iii. 39, 55, 77, 81, 135, 170, 179, 255, 321, 395; iv. 73, 87, 215, 234, 310, 315, 336: Dryden's tran...
13. iv. 277Manley, Mrs. de la Rivière (Epicene and Sappho?), her _New Atalantis_, i. 55 _note_; iv. 172, 173 _note_, 242: her _Narrative of Guiscard's Examination_, i. 245 _note_: her _Mem...
14. ii. 51, 206:Morphew, John, printer of the _Tatler_, referred to, i. 64 and _note_, 106 _note_, 218, 222 _note_, 261, 299 _note_; ii. 129, 167, 207, 222, 248, 360, 365; iii. 57, 71 _note_, 7...
15. iii. 283_Paradise Lost_ compared to Dryden's _State of Innocence_, i. 55, 56: referred to, i. 263 _note_, 330; ii. 7 _note_; iii. 103 and _note_; iv. 116, 117, 119, 140, 141, 210 _seq._...
16. iv. 207Partridge, John, his supposed death and defence, i. 21 and _note_, 22 and _note_: his _Almanac_, i. xi. 21 _note_; ii. 319 _note_ and _seq._: some account of, ii. 320 _note_: ne...
17. iii. 302;18. iii. 327Plato, conductor of Socrates in Chamber of Fame, ii. 228: a parable on love by, ii. 283 _seq._: a fable of, iii. 131; iv. 238, 239: on suicide, iii. 214: referred to, ii. 70, 71...
19. iv. 21, 221Pleasure, accounts of, directed from White's Chocolate-house, i. 12: and virtue, a fable of, ii. 324 _seq._: claims to be called happiness, ii. 325: or vice, ii. 327: depraved m...
20. iv. 45, 220, 221Poetry, accounts of, from Will's Coffee-house, i 12: its influence for virtue, ii. 331 _seq._: for sale, ii. 377 _seq._: compared to history, ii. 392, 393: faults and virtues of...
21. iii. 218, 219:Pope, Alex., his _Pastorals_, i. 112 _note_: his _Epitaph on Withers_, i. 378 _note_: his _Rape of the Lock_, ii. 29 _note_, 79 _note_; iv. 353: his _Epistle to Miss Blount on h...
22. ii. 187Rome, Emperor of, esteem for his horse, iii. 43: news from, iii. 83, 84, 375: referred to, i. 27, 49, 60, 71, 73, 94; ii. 337, 373 _note_; iii. 62, 87, 89, 243, 257, 258, 359, 3...
23. iv. 114Snuff, history of, by Charles Lillie, i. 229 and _note_: folly of taking, i. 284 _seq._: worse for ladies, i. 285: the best Barcelona, ii. 309: snuff-takers not "whetters," iii....
24. iv. 372Theatre, lamentable history of the, i. 109, 110: its effect on manners of the age, i. 111: at Amsterdam, i. 171, 172: moral influence of, ii. 334; iii. 353 _seq._: fair sex in f...
25. iv. 194:Tournay, i. 19 _note_, 43, 174, 269, 290, 291, 299, 304, 313, 331, 332, 337, 339, 354, 362, 377, 378, 399; ii. 34, 48, 67 _note_, 73, 92, 96, 97, 108; iii. 317
26. iv. 104, 159, 238, 262, 283, 293, 362Virtue and pleasure, a fable of, ii. 324 _seq._: effectively recommended by poetry, ii. 331 _seq._: men of, allowed to look in the "Mirror of Truth," ii. 344: the Temple of, iii...