gold and silver lace, where the others had worsted, silk instead of cloth, &c. They were the immediate attendants on their lord's person, to whom they delivered all letters, messages ; no inferior servant being suffered to approach him: at table they stood behind his chair, and presented him with the cup, plate, &c. which they received at the hands of the footmen. return, their lord took care of their education; and when they grew up towards manhood (at which time they were supposed to be superannuated for this office) he was expected to provide for them genteelly. In (b) The Spectator has not justly represented here the gods of Epicurus: they were supposed to be indolent and uninterested in the affairs of men, but not malignant or cruel beings. No. 219. (a) Vid. Epict. Enchirid. c. 23. (b) Wisd. Ch. v. 1, -5. No. 220. (c) Ch. v. 8, -14. (a) This is no fiction of the Spectator's, as might naturally be imagined. There was a projector of this kind, named John Peter, who published a very thin pamphlet in 8vo, intitled "Artificial Versifying, a new way to make Latin Verses, Lond. 1678." I believe it is a plan of his scheme which is given in Nat. Bailey's Dictionary, folio, under the word Hexameter. P. (c) George Villiers, author of the Rehearsal, who died in 1687. Dean Swift seems to have borrowed from hence his wooden engine for making books in Gulliver's Travels. Pt. 3. Ch. 5. No. 221. (a) Aristotle, or as some think Diogenes. (6) A noted charm for agues; said to have been invented by Basilides, an heretic of the second century, who taught that very sublime mysteries were contained in the number 365, (viz. not only the days of the year, but the different orders of celestial beings, &c.) to which number the Hebrew letters that compose the word Abracadabra are said to amount. (c) Stanley's lives of the Philosophers, p. 527. fol. edit. It seems the word Adam signifies in the Hebrew language, Man; Sheth signifies Placed; and Enoch, Misery; Hence this profound Doctor (to use the words of the Historian referred to)" mined for a mystical meaning," and dug out this moral inference, that "Man is placed in misery or pain." See Fuller's Worthies of Suffolk, p. 70. No. 222. P (a)" In applying to the poetical remains of Sappho the two lines of Phædras contained in this motto, Mr. Addison has hit upon one of the most elegant and happy applications that per haps ever was made from any classic author." Genius of Pope. Ess. on the (b) Ambrose Philips-The author of the " Essay on the Writings of Pope" thinks both this and Philips's other translation in No. 229. were revised and altered by Addison himself.. -The winter-piece may be seen in Tatler, Vol. I. No. 12. and See Spect. Vol. V. No. 366. (c) Dion. Halicar. De Structura Orationis, p. 202. See No. 229. No. 225. (a) The meaning is "A wise man thinks all that he says, and a fool says all that he thinks." (b) Eccl. vi. 9.—xxvii. 17. (c) Wisdom of Sol. Ch. vi. v. 12. No. 226. (a) "Do you read the Spectators? I never do; they never come in my way; I go to no coffee-houses. They say abundance of them are very pretty; they are going to be printed in small volumes; I'll bring them over with me.' Letter of Swift to Mrs. Johnson, dated Nov. 18. 1711. (b) This speculation was written with the generous design of promoting a subscription just then set on foot for having the Cartoons of Raphael copied and engraved by Signior Nicola Dorigny, who had been invited over from Rome by several of the nobility, and to whom the queen had given her licence for that purpose. In his proposals (printed at the end of some of the original Spectators) this artist offers to deliver eight plates, ninteen inches high, and from twenty-five or thirty inches long, for four guineas subscription: although, he says, the prints of Alexander's Battles after Le-Brun, being but five in number, are frequently sold for twenty guineas, &c. No. 228. (a) When the Spectator wrote, large full bottomed wigs were worn by all men of fashion. They seem to have answered the high commodes mentioned in Vol. II. No. 98. It is said those long perukes were the invention of a French barber, whose name was Duviller, in order to conceal a deformity in the shoulder either of the Dauphin or the duke of Burgundy; hence they were likewise called Duvillers. There was also a sort of peruke in fashion at that time called Night-cap-wigs, which had short tyes with very small close round heads.-These however are not meant in the text, but simply night-caps. See Tatler with notes, No. 26. and note. No. 229. (b) It is wanting in the old copies, and has been supplied by conjecture as above. But in a curious edition of Catullus, published at Venice in 1738, said to be printed from an ancient MS. newly discovered, this line is given thus.joquendum." "Voce No. 231. (a) Mrs. Barber. See a curious account of this lady in Sir John Hawkins's "History of Music." Vol. v. p. 156. (b) This letter was written by Mr. John Hughes. (c) Iliad i. 225. No. 234. (a) The person here alluded to, was probably Mr. Toland, who is said by the Examiner to have been the Butt of the Tatler and Spectator. Mr. Toland wrote about this time under the patronage of Lord Oxford. See Biog. Brit. Art. Toland. No. 235. (a) Thomas Dogget, an excellent comic actor, who was for many years joint manager of the play-house with Wilkes and Colley Cibber; of whom the reader may find a particular account in Colley's "Apology for his own Life." 8vo. No. 237. (a) Vid. Sen. De Constantia Sapientis. No. 238. (b) Comedy of the Plain Dealer, by Wycherley. (b) By Tom Brown and others. No. 239. (a) The followers of Duns Scotus, a celebrated Doctor of the schools, who flourished about the year 1300, and from his opposing some favourite doctrines of Thomas Aquinas, gave rise to a new party called the Scotists, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of the other. P. (b) The followers of Martin Smiglecius, a famous logician of the 16th century, whose works were long admired in the schools even of Protestant Universities, though he himself was a popish Jesuit. 66 P. (c) Louis XIV. of France. (d) Part II. c. 1. v. 297. See also, No. 145. (e) The author quoted is And. Ammonius, Bayle's Dict. A forites is a heap of propositions without order. No. 240. (a) Different scenes in the play of Philaster. (b) In the play-bills about this time, there was this clause, By her majesty's command no person to be admitted behind "the scenes." No. 343. (b) Alluding to the popular cry of those times, that" the church was in danger," artfully made use of by the leaders of one party to effect the downfal of the other. No. 245. P. (a) The Minorite Friars of the order of St. Francis, are so called from a cord, which they wear by way of girdle. (b) A play, in which one covers his eyes, lays his hand upon his back, and guesses who strikes it. The French call it La main chaude. P. (c) The noted Greek Professor of the University of Cambridge. No. 246. (a) See Dr. Gregory's Comparative View of " the State and Faculties of Man with those of the Animal World," Discourse I. London, 1766. 12mo. No. 247. (a) Part III. Canton 2. ver, 443. -Still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease. (b) This is a fine stroke of humor, after having admitted Ovid's Tale of Philomel without any objections to its veracity. The story here referred to, is of an Apple-woman, who, when the Thames was frozen over, was said to have her head cut off by the ice: It is humorously told in Gay's Trivia. "The cracking crystal yields, she sinks, she dies, No. 248. Book II. v. 375, &c. (a) See Montaigne's Essays, V. I. p. 335. P. (b) This is said to have been the late noted Beau Nash, so long director of the public diversions at Bath and Tunbridge, &c. who was in King William's time a student in the Temple. See the Memoirs of his Life, published for Mr. Newberry, in 8vo; of which book it is now well know that the author was the late ingenious Dr. Goldsmith. No. 250. (a) Alluding to the old-fashioned spoons, which had commonly ornamented figures carved on the handles, as a double face, one of the twelve Apostles, &c. &c. (b) This letter is said to have been written by a Mr. Golding. (c) The optical glass here mentioned is very common and very contemptible. No. 251. (a) This little man was but just able to support the basket of pastry which he carried on his head, and sung in a very peculiar tone the cant words which passed into his name, Colly Molly-Puff. There is a half-sheet print of him in the "Set of London Cries," M. Lauron del. P. Tempest, exc. Granger's Biographical History of England.” 66 No. 258. (a) This was one Christopher Rich, mentioned in Tatler No. 99. (b) Three musicians who furnished operas for the musical entertainments at York-Buildings, and with whom Steele was concerned. Abstinence, the benefits of it Acosta, his answer to Limborch, touching the multiplicity Action, a threefold division of our actions Admiration, one of the most pleasing passions Short-lived Adversity, no evil in itself About the lottery-ticket Advertisement from Mr. Sly the haberdasher Ambition, by what to be measured Many times as hurtful to the princes who are lead by it as the people Most men subject to it Of use when rightly directed The end of it Never satisfied The effects of it in the mind 219, 224 219 255 256 ib. 257 ib. 210 ib. 244 223 195 208 197 239 ib. ib. 250 238 239 253 Subjects us to many troubles The true object of a laudable ambition Annihilation, by whom desired The most abject of wishes Apes, what women so called, and described Apollo's temple on the top of Leucate, by whom frequent- In what manner managed by states and communities Art of Criticism, the Spectator's account of that poem BAUDY-HOUSES, frequented by wise men, not out Beggars, Sir Andrew Freeport's opinion of them Castilian the story of a Castilian husband and his wife 198 |