| Description |
xiv, 304 pages 19 cm. |
| Series |
Everyman's library. Essays & belles-lettres ; 993 |
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Everyman's library. Essays and belles lettres ; 993.
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| Note |
The selections are chiefly Steele's contributions to the Tatler. A few have been assigned, wholly or partly, to Addison. Cf. pages 304. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Mr. Bickerstaff issues his proposals -- Clarissa and Chloe -- Theatrical intelligence -- Mr. Bickerstaff's wit declining, he makes his last will and testament -- A perfectly new way of writing -- Pious stratagem of Pastorella's aunt -- Miss Jenny Distaaff takes up the pen -- Fine writing -- Autobiography of Mr. Bickerstaff's familiar spirit, who died at the age of one month -- Painful position of the news-writers if peace should come -- Esquires -- France needs peace : 'Authentic' letter from Madame de Maintenon -- The case of the unhappy gentlewoman -- May-fair closed -- No peace after all -- Plain words from Mr. Bickerstaff to Louis XIV -- Concerning toasts -- Duels -- The King of France's reply and other matters -- Miss Toss -- The passionate duellist to his love -- Jack Careless and Colonel Constant -- Duels and duellists further considered -- Marlborough outwits Villars and lays seige to Tournai -- Edifying experience of Jenny Distaff -- Snuff -- Entertainment at the expense of the artillery-company -- Illustrative anecdote -- Selling-up at Drury Lane -- The hero properly celebrated -- Tournai captured -- Tragical passion -- Love and lust, with a portrait of Aspasia -- Delamira resigns her fan -- Conjugal coolness : Osmyn and Delmira -- Clerical bellowing at Saint Paul's -- Charles XII of Sweden defeated by Peter the Great -- Borrowed from La Bruyère -- Russia not unacquainted with honour and humanity -- Sharpers represented as hounds -- Infallible method of prevailing with the fair -- More girding at the train-bands -- Beauty not what it was : with an excursion to the artillery-ground -- More about the sharpers -- The Battle of Malplaquet -- Coffee-house comment on the battle -- Eloquence and action, with particular reference to the clergy of Great Britain -- Wealth and gentility -- More news of Malplaquet -- The mending of manners : Mr. Bickerstaff's tables of fame -- The cause of tears -- Notices -- Mr. Kidney on the late glorious victory : editorial remarks -- Voice and gesture : their misuse in the pulpit -- Sharpers again -- Mr. Bickerstaff threatened and rebuked -- Unsatisfactory conduct of a vicar -- A Quaker's letter -- Concerning the table of fame -- Notice to correspondents -- Marriage of Jenny Distaff -- Flattering letter from a fair admirer -- Attendance of ladies at trials for rape -- Sound advice to Jenny in an early domestic discord -- Sergeant Hall's epistolary style -- Extraordinary behaviour of the gentleman next door -- Reprehensible practice of gagging -- Visit from the fair admirer -- Mr. Bickerstaff prepares to defend himself -- Arrangements for burying those morally dead -- Sufferings of authors from piratical printers -- Mr. Bickerstaff deals firmly with fopperies -- Domestic happiness of Jenny and her husband -- Story of Will Rosen -- The morally dead : cases of Mr. Groggram and Florinda -- Literature and the dignity of man -- Refractory conduct of certain dead persons -- Cases of the aforesaid dead persons heard by Mr. Bickerstaff -- A morally deceased gentleman's effects : burning question of the new-fashioned petticoat -- From a well-wisher -- The case of the petticoat -- Salutary effects of the Tatler -- The humble petition of Penelope Prim -- Mr. Bickerstaff's expectations from the new lottery -- Base conduct of composers of wines -- An old-fashioned major corrects a young officer -- The humble petition of Deborah Hart, et cetera -- Letters from Dorothy Drumstick, Lydia, and Chloe -- To all gentlemen, ladies, and others that delight in soft lines -- The complainers -- Mr. Bickerstaff receives an acceptable present -- Concerning the nuptial state -- Unhappy consequences of women's love of finery -- Married happiness, illustrated from Cicero's letters -- Mr. Bickerstaff as the Censor of Great Britain -- Mr. Softly's sonnet -- Mr. Bickerstaff and his correspondents -- Mr. Clayton's new musical entertainment -- Funeral of Thomas Betterton, the actor -- First sorrow -- Pleasures of the playhouse -- Notice to readers -- Pernicious consequences of reading the Tatler -- A coach journey and reflections occasioned by it -- Odds and ends -- Remonstrance from Cato junior, et cetera -- Lottery for the relief of the fair sex -- Woman : destroying fiend or guardian angel -- Letter and notices -- The vanity of ambition -- The widow Flavia and her daughter -- Doubtful case of the forlorn virgin -- The masked rider -- The humble petition of the company of linen-drapers -- The Partridge joke continued -- Scolds : with an illustration from the Garden of Eden -- Requests from two readers -- The church thermometer -- Scolds : an ingenious physician's remedy -- Reflections on serenades -- Concerning advertisements -- Curious history of Doctor Young -- Letters -- Corruption of our English tongue -- Bitter words about the Royal Society -- Ithuriel's spear -- Verses on a city shower : by an eminent hand -- Quacks -- England or Great Britain -- Gyges's ring -- Inventory of goods lately stolen from Lady Fardingdale -- Jenny answers a correspondent -- History of a shilling -- Mr. Bickerstaff's Court of Honour -- Thoughts on drinking -- Extract of the Journal of the Court of Honour -- Shabby treatment of the clergy -- English, Scotch, or British? -- Continuation of the Journal of the Court of Honour -- Further proceedings of the Court of Honour -- Later hours kept nowadays -- Last session of the Court of Honour -- Clerical plagiarism -- Elizabeth Slender's petition and Penitence Gentle's letter -- Mr. Steele takes leave of his readers. |
| Subject |
Tatler (London, England : 1709)
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Tatler (London, England : 1709) (OCoLC)fst01356931
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| Added Author |
Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.
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| Added Title |
Tatler (London, England : 1709)
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tatler (London, England : 1709). Tatler. London, Dent; New York, Dutton [1953] (OCoLC)614033300 |
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