The Spectator No.252 Wednesday, Dec 19, 1711 to No,321, Saturday, March 8, 1712 Volume IV (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... No 264. Page 52. The Bumper Tavern. Richard Estcourt, of the Beefsteak Club ante, vol. i. p. 317), had advertised in Nos. 260, 261, and 263 of the Spectator that he would on Jan. 1 open the Bumper Tavern in James Street, Covent Garden, where the best wines, from Brook and Hellier, would be delivered by "trusty Anthony" in "the same natural purity that he receives it from the said merchants." PAGE 53. John Sty's Best. Sly was a tobacconist, as well as a haberdasher of hats. See No. 526. No 265--Motto. Ovid, De Arte Amat. iii. 7. PAGE 54. A good Head. Ante, p. 48 (note).--Improve?nent of their Petticoats. See vol. ii. p. 333.--Philomot (filemot), a corruption of Feuillemorte, the colour of a dead or faded leaf. PAGE 56. Ivuki etc. Menander, Monost. 92. (Winterton, p. 507). Meineke reads ov Tcl pva-ia. Cf Spectator No. 271. No 266. PAGE 57. Motto. Terence, Eunuchus, V. iv. 8-11.--The Man of the Bumper. "Trusty Anthony"; probably Anthony Aston, as Genest suggests. See p. 52. PAGE 58. Fletcher's Humorous Lieutena?it. Steele quotes II. iii. 15-26. PAGE 59. An Inn in the City. We are reminded of the first plate of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress (1731), which may have been inspired by this paper. PAGE 60. Dedication to the Plain Dealer. Wycherley's play, which had offended not a few ladies, had a dedication "To My Lady B..." in the form of a billet-doux. No 267, --Motto. Propertius, Elegies, III. xxvi. (34), line 65.--Addison's papers on Milton's Paradise Lost, of which this is the first, were reprinted in 1719, under the title of Notes on the Twelve Books of Paradise Lost, Collected from the Spectator. For the bibliography of later issues, see Arber's Reprint, 1868, p. 8. Gildon, in his Laws of Poetry (1721), endeavoured to controvert Addison's application of "the r...