George A. Aitken

Capitolo 15

gossip of the day, his/her underwriters still used some scenes and
events family to their readers to kindly bring the house
lessons that they has desired to teach;  and in to do so you/they have given us for them a
portrait of the daily life of the city that would have given alone
durable interest to the paper. The separately papers "moral" you/they have had
innumerable imitators, and sometimes therefore they is proper to become boring on
us, but the social articles are at least now as interesting as when them
you/he/she was written, and one of the reasons because some excellent judges have
prefered the _Tatler_ to the _Spectator_, is that there is a greater
proportion of these papers that you/they gossip, combining the wisdom with satire and
bringing in front of us as in a mirror the London of the day of Regina Anna.
Bickerstaff takes us from baton to coffee-lodge, from St. James it is to the
Change;  we see the poets and the intelligence to Will, the statesmen to
White, the dealers to Garraway the Templars to the Smyrna;  we see
Betterton and the rest on the stage and the ladies and gentlemen in the
forehead or boxes of side;  we see the players of Pinkethman to Greenwich, Powell
puppet-show, Don's Salterò Museum to Chelsea and the to be born-torment and
prize-struggles to Hockley-in-the-hole. We am suited to the building with many shops to Street
James or the ring in Hyde Park, and we study the excellent ladies and the
beaux, with their red heels and their amber-led reeds suspended from
their vests;  or we follow them to us to Charles Lillie, the perfumer,
or to I toy-negotiate her/it of Mather, or to the shop to the wholesale one of china of Motteux;  or to the
you negotiate in the New Change, where the men bought trifles and they ogled the
companions. Or again we still look at the exposure of the cheats and
wrangler and the declaration of others on that they also brought the greatest downfall
those that fell in their groups. We see the adoration and the
the flirtations in the church, with Smalridge and Atterbury Hoadly and