civil power, in the late and prefent reign, has been indebted to your counsels and wisdom. But to enumerate the great advantages which the public has received from your administration, would be a more proper work for an history than for an address of this nature. Your Lordship appears as great in your private life, as in the most important offices which You have borne. I would therefore rather choose to speak of the pleasure You afford all who are admitted into your conversation, of your elegant taste in all the polite parts of learning, of your great humanity and complacency of manners, and of the surprising influence which is peculiar to You in making every one who converses with your Lordship prefer You to himself, without thinking the less meanly of his own talents. But if I should take notice of all that might be observed in your Lordship, I should have nothing new to say upon any other character of distinction. I am, MY LORD, YOUR LORDSHIP'S MOST OBEDIENT, MOST DEVOTED, HUMBLE SERVANT, THE SPECTATOR. THE Spectator's prefatory discourse, and account of NO; Charadiers of the members of the Spectator's Club Spectator's farther account of himself and his design 4 On the abuse of the understanding On clubs, with the rules of the two-penny club The Spectator recommends the perufal of his papers Arietta's character; the story of Inkle and Yarico Against telling stories of spirits and apparitions On the Italian opera ; Nicolini's fine action On the public diverfions Dehgn of this work not to satirize particular per fons Farther account of the Italian opera Esay on envy and Irish impudence On the professions of divinity, law and physic Letters on the reigning taste of plays and operas Wit, dangerous in an ill-natur'd or vicious mon On impertinence; with letters from T. Kimbow, &c. On the monuments in Westminster-abbey On ambition, and the anxiety occafioned by it . On the absurdity of several signs in London On the Italian recitativo and French opera Letter from the amcrous club at Oxford On beauty ; the history of Lætitia and Daphne The Spectator's resolution to go on in the cause of virtue 34 19 20 On affectation N° 38 42 and from Anna Bella : king Latinus, &c. ' 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 · On the folly of a general mourning A criticism on the play of Sir Fopling Flutter, 69 A criticism on the old fong of Chevy Chase 70 and 74 On the conquest of the pasions ; love-letter from James to Betty 71 An account of the Everlasting Club On the love of praise; description of a female idol 73 Charoiler of a Fine Gentlenian Character of Pharamond, and memoirs of his private life 76 On absence of mind, with the character of Menalcas 77 History of the Ugly Club at Cambridge 78 Letters from a young lady, and from Hecatisfa 29 The adventures of Brunetta and Phillis. The remonftrance of affronted THAT . 8a 75. C THE - SPECTATOR. N° 1. Thursday, March 1, 1710-11. O-II. Non fumum ex fulgore, fed ex fumo dare lucem Hor. Ars Poet. ver. 143. One with a flash begins, and ends in smoke; RoscoMMON. I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom perufes a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author. To gratify this curiosity, which is so natural to a reader, I design this paper and my next as prefatory dilcourtes to my following writings, and shall give some account in them of the several persons that are engaged in this work. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, |