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Joseph Addison. The Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'
The Coverley Papers, From 'The Spectator'
Table of Contents
PREFACE
O. M. M. INTRODUCTION. COVERLEY PAPERS
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" 517 " (O) NOTES
INDEX. INTRODUCTION
ADDISON: COVERLEY PAPERS
'WILL WIMBLE.'
NO. 120. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18
NO. 121. THURSDAY, JULY 19
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'WILL HONEYCOMB.' C
NO. 335. TUESDAY, MARCH 25
'HONOURED SIR,
'HONOURED SIR,
'EDWARD BISCUIT.'
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APPENDIX I
ON COFFEE-HOUSES
APPENDIX II
ON THE SPECTATOR'S ACQUAINTANCE
APPENDIX III
ON THE DEATH OF SIR ROGER
APPENDIX IV
ON THE SPECTATOR'S POPULARITY
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Eustace Budgell, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I have passed my latter years in this city, where I am frequently seen in most public places, though there are not above half a dozen of my select friends that know me; of whom my next paper shall give a more particular account. There is no place of general resort, wherein I do not often make my appearance; sometimes I am seen thrusting my head into a round of politicians at Will's, and listening with great attention to the narratives that are made in those little circular audiences. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's, and, whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman, overhear the conversation of every table in the room. I appear on Sunday nights at St. James's coffee-house, and sometimes join the little committee of politics in the inner-room, as one who comes there to hear and improve. My face is likewise very well known at the Grecian, the Cocoa-Tree, and in the theatres both of Drury-Lane and the Hay-Market. I have been taken for a merchant upon the Exchange for above these ten years, and sometimes pass for a Jew in the assembly of stock-jobbers at Jonathan's: In short, wherever I see a cluster of people, I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club.
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part in life. I am very well versed in the theory of a husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the oeconomy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots, which are apt to escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper.
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