Capitolo 1
COMPOSITIONS IT IS HISTORIES
of Joseph Addison
Contained:
Introduction
Public credit
Family Superstitions
It operates Leos
Women and Wives
The Italian work
Satires
Truth and Forgery Humour
He/she knows Ga Yean cutaneous Eruption Here it Tows Impressions in London
The Vision of Marraton
Six Papers on Intelligence
Friendship
Chevy-hunting (Two Papers)
A Dream of the Painters
Time of exchange (Two Papers)
Censorship
The Language English
The Vision of Mirza
Genius
Theodosius and Constantia
Good Nature
A Match that Sneers
Has trust in God
INTRODUCTION.
The sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from
the Tatler that was in partnership with they especially imagined him
character of ISAAC BICKERSTAFF that it was the central figure in that
series; and in the twenty-ninth volume it is a similar harvest
of papers related to the Spectator you Beat up and Mr. Roger DE COVERLEY,
who the central figure was Steele and the Spectator of Addison. Those
volumes contained, without doubt, some of the better Compositions of Addison and
Steele. But in the Tatler and Spectator the full armourieses are of the
the intelligence and the wisdom of these two writers that summoned in the life the army
of the Essayists, and it conducted above it to kind war against the strengths of
The sick-temperament and the ignorance. The envy, Hate, the Malevolence and theirs first
cousins of the family of Uncharitableness, are it heads those bottom
two commander-in-head, and we can afford few to dismiss from
the field two of the fighters of stoutest against them. In this
volume is only Addison that speaks; and in another volume,
there will be to the moment the voice of Steele to follow.
The two friends differed in temperament and in very of the outside
signals of character; but these two that few books they very separately want
show as completely they accepted as essentials. For Addison,
Literature had a charm of his really; he pleased him in to distinguish
the most excellent graces of good style, and he deduced from the truths of the life
the principles of taste in writing. For Steele, the Literature was, the