The Spectator

JOSEPH ADDISON,

INCLUDING

THE WHOLE CONTENTS OF BP. HURD'S EDITION, WITH LETTERS
AND OTHER PIECES NOT FOUND IN ANY PREVIOUS
COLLECTION; AND MACAULAY'S ESSAY

ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS.

EDITED,

WITH CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES

BY GEORGE WASHINGTON GREENE.

"No whiter page than Adaison remains,
He from the taste obscene reclaims our youth,
And sets the passions on the side of truth;
Forms the soft bosom with the gentlest art,
And pours each human virtue thro' the heart."-POPE

IN SIX VOLUMES.

VOL. VI.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO

1870.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

THE SPECTATOR:

(253 On Detraction among bad Poets-Pope's Essay on Criti-

cism,

255. Uses of Ambition-Fame difficult to be obtained,

256. Subject-Disadvantages of Ambition,

257. Ambition hurtful to the Hopes of Futurity,

261. Love and Marriage,

262. The Spectator's Success-Caution in Writing—an-
nounces his criticism on Milton,

265. Female Head-dress-Will Honeycomb's Notions of it,

(26. Criticism on Paradise Lost,

273

THE SPECTATOR (Continued),

339. Criticism on Paradise Lost,

66

369.

269.

Visit from Sir Roger-his Opinions on various Matters,
271. Letters from Tom Trippit, complaining of a Greek Quo-
tation-soliciting a Peep at Sir Roger from a Showman,

275. Dissection of a Beau's Head,

281. Dissection of a Coquette's Heart,

287. On the Civil Constitution of Great Britain,

289. Reflections on Bills of Mortality-Story of a Dervise,
293. Connexion betwixt Prudence and good Fortune-Fable
of a Drop in the Ocean,

295. Letter on Pin-Money-Reflections on that Custom,

299.