147. On reading the Church-service 148. On Impertinents-Whisperers-Letters to .... 160. On great natural Geniuses 161. Letter and Reflections on rustic AmusementsBUDGell. MISS SHEPHARD. ...... ADDISON. tory of the War-Specimen in a Letter ADDISON 167. Castle-building-Letter from a Castle-builder STEELE, 168. Letter on the Severity of School-masters-- 171. Subject continued-Address to those who 172. Talents honourable only as they are used STEELE. 173. Account of a Grinning-match ...... on Fashions 177. Good-nature, as a moral Virtue 173. Celinda's Letter on Female Jealousy 179. Various Dispositions of Readers-Account 180. Vanity of Lewis XIVth's Conquests Mr. H. MARTYN. 181. Cruelty of Parents in the Affair of Marriage ADDISON 182. Letters on Seduction, from the Seducer STEELE. 183. On Fable-Fable of Pleasure and Pain ADDISON. 184. Account of a remarkable Sleeper 185. Zeal-various Kinds of Zealots 193. Account of a great Man's Levee Fickle Friend ........ ..... 189. Cruelty of Parents-Letter from a Father to 191. On the Whims of Lottery-Adventurers ...... STEELE. ADDISON. STEELE. ADDISON. STEELE. THE SPECTATOR. No. 132. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1711. Qui, aut tempus quid postulet non vi‹ ›t, aut plura loquitur, aut se ostentat, aut eorum quibuscum est rationem non habet, is ineptus esse dicitur. TULL. That man may be called impertinent, who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in. HAVING notified to my good friend Sir Roger that I should set out for London the next day, his horses were ready at the appointed hour in the evening; and, attended by one of his grooms, I arrived at the county-town at twilight, in order to be ready for the stage-coach the day following. As soon as we arrived at the inn, the servant who waited upon me inquired of the chamberlain in my hearing what company he had for the coach? The fellow answered, 'Mrs. Betty Arable the great fortune, and the widow her mother; a recruiting officer (who took a place because they were to go) young 'Squire Quickset, her cousin (that her mother wished her to be married to ;) Ephraim the quaker, her guardian; and a gentleman that had studied himself dumb from Sir Roger de Coverley's.' I observed by what, he said of myself, that according to his office he dealt much in intelligence; and doubted not but there was some foundation for his reports of the rest of the company, as well as for the whimsical account he gave of me. The next morning at day-break we were all called; and I who know my own natural shyness, and endeavour to be as little liable to be disputed with as possible, dressed immediately, that I might make no one wait. The first preparation for our setting out was, that the captain's half pike was placed near the coachman, and a drum behind the coach. In the mean time the drummer, the captain's equipage, was very loud, that none of the captain's things should be placed so as to be spoiled;' upon which his cloak-bag was fixed in the seat of the coach; and the captain himself, according to a frequent, though invidious behaviour of military men, ordered his man to look sharp, that none but one of the ladies should have the place he had taken fronting the coach-box. 6 We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight. The coach jumbled us insensibly in. to some sort of familiarity: and we had not movéd above two miles, when the widow asked the captain what success he had in his recruiting? The officer, with a frankness he believed very graceful, told her, that indeed he had but very little luck, and had suffered much by desertion, therefore should be glad to end his warfare in the service of her or her fair daughter. In a word,' continued he, 'I am a soldier, and to be plain is |
