UNKNOWN ADDISUN 578. On personal Identity-Story of Fad- lallah the Temple of Vulcan...... -581. The Author's Answer to his Correspon- dents; Letters from a Lover and a 582. On the Itch of Writing... 583. Duty of being usefully employed-on 588. On Self-love and Benevolence......... 589. On Planting — Folly of destroying 590. On Eternity UNKNOWN per.......... ADDISON UNKNOWN ADDISON 601. On Benevolence-Causes which ob- GROVE 602. Advantages of an Air of Importance in 604. On a Desire of knowing future Events UNKNOWN 605. A difficult Case in Love resolved......... 606. Embroidery recommended to the La- 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 young Clergymen-on Antipathies -against Embroidery 610. Applause of Men not to be regarded- 611. Letter from a Lady insulted by her Seducer Reflexions on the Subject. 612. On the Pride of Genealogy 613. Letters, on Ambition Eloquence of Beggars---from a Lady marked by 614. Questions on Widows, answered by the Love Casuist-Custom of Euborne. Specimen......... 619. Answers to various Correspondents...... UNKNOWN 620. The Royal Progress, a Poem............ TICKELL 622. Memoirs of an honest Country Gen- 623. Account of the Custom of Euborne... Pursuits of Avarice, Ambition, &c. 625. Questions in Love solved by the Love 627. Letter to Zelinda from her Lover 628. On Eternity.... Translation of Cato's Soliloquy per Behaviour in Church Verses on a Grotto......... anity.......... .... UNKNOWN Mind in a future State ......... BLAND PEARCE 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 anu 2 h, a T and an n*, with a short line * M and an h means Marlborough, and T and an r means Treasurer. effect upon between thom, has sold many insipid pamphlets. Nay, I have known a whole edition go off by virtue of two or three well-written & -s. A sprinkling of the words «faction, Frenchman, papist, plunderer, and the like significant terms, in an italic character, have also a very good 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. 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 lielp, 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. |