Joseph Addison

In her usual formal style, which she does not adapt to the more usual conventions of epistolarity, she says it would be useless for her to give Winthrop the current domestic, and commercial intelligence,

This volume opens with The Plan of a School, and then, continuing a story-line from volume one, with Mrs Wheatley's demanding of Miss Le Maine how she can use rouge and plume herself on...

LMWM wrote an epilogue (not used on stage) to Joseph Addison 's famous tragedy, Cato.

Lady Mary claimed that at every stage of her life she picked a few intimate friends and cared little for the opinions of anyone else. She always retained the highest opinion of her father's and...

Her widow is President of a club of widows which had featured in the recent number 561, by Addison . Montagu's heroine, sold into marriage at an early age, has resolved to exploit as the...

As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...

Along with works of art she describes, but more briefly, the way of life of places she passes through. She has, however, little sympathy with working people's needs. She remarks that actresses and dancers have...

Her brief in this paper was again to attack the Whigs. Her first number appeared five days after Addison 's Spectator number 81, which sought to decry and put a stop to Party-Rage in Women.

Swift also, like his erstwhile allies Addison and Steele , was spurred by DM 's example to consternation over women's growing political activity. Though he was personally her friend, Swift undoubtedly aimed partly at her...

A son, John, born early in 1728 lived only a month. Then came Spencer, born just over a year later, who rose in the Church to become a bishop, and lived until 1813; Penelope, born...

She consistently takes a challenging stance in face of authority. Ironically (in view of Johnson's championing of women writers and Burns's snobbish attitude about herself) she uses Samuel Johnson as a symbol of the tyrant-critic...

This title-page quotes from Horace , Lyttelton , and Addison . The first tale, Genius (told partly in letters), fills volume one, and the second, Enthusiasm, volumes two and three. Both attributes are presented...

The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian , which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni

The volume is strong in local colour and nostalgia. The narrator practises a Quaker -like interior religion. In conclusion MAK quotes first from Addison 's The Vision of Mirza, then the final two lines...

The poem is headed with a quotation from Psalm 19: The Heavens declare the Glory of God, & the Firmament showeth his handy work—the same psalm which Addison had famously rendered as The spacious...