George A. Aitken

Capitolo 14

immediate a relationship between our thoughts and gestures that a woman owes
you think well to look well."[37] the habit of scandal-mongering and other
weaknesseses are the result of an improper training of the mind. [38] "everybody
women especially", it says Thackeray, it is "tied up to be thankful to Steele,
as he was the first one of our writers that they really seemed to admire and
respect them." His/her wide pity to the outcast buck:  "I have more than
it rode away once to the death", he says;  to be proper to pour torn wounds is a signal
of a great as a small spirit."[39]

Steele is teaching on morals and right living it intimately enters his
literary criticism. Its love for Shakespeare was true and intelligent;
there is not any formal discussion of the rules of the play, but in everything
the _Tatler_ there are references that show the appreciation of keenest
of the powers of Shakespeare as poet and philosopher. "The tastes spoiled of
the public in the theater could be corrected" only it says Steele, "from
encouraging the representation of the noble characters drawn from
Shakespeare and others, from from where him it is impossible to return without
strong impressions of honour and humanity. On these occasions, the anguish
it witnesses staid us with all of his/her causes and consequences and our
resentment put the people's worth tormented second. It was
plays of this more acceptable nature to the taste of the city, men that
has that genius bent their studies to excel in them."[40] even more
extraordinary is the allusions to "Lost Heaven", for Milton it was equal then
less appreciated that Shakespeare. As in so a lot of other things, Addison
the most elaborate criticism in the _Spectator_ was prefigured in the
_Tatler_ of Steele;  and the comparison of passages of Milton and
Dryden[41] it is due to be a lot striking to the reader of that time that
he/she usually knew only Shakespeare or Chaucer through the adaptations of Dryden
or Nannies.

Although it is not true, as some you/he/she has represented, that the _Tatler_ is
to a large extent a mere diary of society, it mainly pertained to with the