578. On personal Identity-Story of Fad- lallah 579. On Adultery-Dogs which guarded 580. On the Glories of Heaven UNKNOWN ADDISON 587. The Vision of Hearts....... 588. On Self-love and Benevolence.......... 590. On Eternity ADDISON 591. Questions and Cases of Love........ UNKNOWN ..... 595. On the Abuse of Metaphors 596, Distresses of a very amorous Gentleman per... UNKNOWN ADDISON 599. The Cave of Trophonius, a Dream..... UNKNOWN 607. Qualities necessary to make Marriage Happy-the Flitch of Bacon ........ 608. List of Persons who demanded the 609. Letters, on the improper Dress of 611. Letter from a Lady insulted by her Seducer-Reflexions on the Subject. 614. Questions on Widows, answered by the 615. On Fear........... 616. On vulgar Phrases-Specimen...................... No: 619. Answers to various Correspondents...... UNKNOWN 622. Memoirs of an honest Country Gen- 623. Account of the Custom of Euborne... 626. On Novelty · 627. Letter to Zelinda from her Lover- his Death......... 628. On Eternity....... Translation of Cato's Soliloquy 629. Absurd Claims of Reward UNKNOWN GROVE UNKNOWN ......... BLAND UNKNOWN 630. Church Music recommended-impro- per Behaviour in Church 631. On Cleanliness 632. Power of Numbers - Grotto-work- Verses on a Grotto............. 633. On Oratory-Advantages from Christi- anity...... PEARCE 634. On aiming at Perfection .... ....... UNKNOWN Mind in a future State. GROVE THE SPECTATOR. N° 567. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1714. -Inceptus clamor frustratur hiantes. VIRG. Æn. vi. 493. -The weak voice deceives their gasping throats. DRYDEN. I HAVE received private advice from some of my correspondents, that if I would give my paper a general run, I should take care to season it with scandal. I have indeed observed of late that few writings sell which are not filled with great names and illustrious titles. The reader generally casts his eye upon a new book, and, if he finds several letters separated from one another by a dash, he buys it up and peruses it with great satisfaction. An M and h, a T and an r*, with a short line * M and an h means Marlborough, and T and an r means Treasurer. VOL. XV. between them, has sold many insipid pamphlets. Nay, I have known a whole edition go off by virtue of two or three well-written &c--s. A sprinkling of the words faction, Frenchman, papist, plunderer,' and the like significant terms, in an italic character, have also a very good effect upon the eye of the purchaser; not to mention scribbler, liar, rogue, rascal, knave, and villain,' without which it is impossible to carry on a modern controversy. -n Our party writers are so sensible of the secret virtue of an inuendo to recommend their productions, that of late they never mention the Qor P-t at length, though they speak of them with honour, and with that deference which is due to them from every private person. It gives a secret satisfaction to a peruser of these mysterious works, that he is able to decypher them without help, and, by the strength of his own natural parts, to fill up a blank space, or make out a word that has only the first or last letter to it. Some of our authors indeed, when they would be more satirical than ordinary, omit only the vowels of a great man's name, and fall most unmercifully upon all the consonants. This way of writing was first of all introduced by T-m B―wn*, of facetious memory, who, after having gutted a proper name of all its intermediate vowels, used to plant it in his works, and make as free with it as he pleased, without any danger of the statute. That I may imitate these celebrated authors, and publish a paper which shall be more taking than ordinary, I have here drawn up a very curious libel, in which a reader of penetration will find a great deal of concealed satire, and, if he be acquainted *Tom Brown. |