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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. 1805 Excerpt: ...specimens of that indirect and unforced association of ludicrous ideas for which Addison has been so justly celebrated. From the Guardian also, though of a graver cast than its predecessors, we can select a few papers of similar merit; Simon Softly's Courtship, for instance, and the Essays on the Tucker, and on the art of Flying. Of the second class, likewise, where fiction and a pleasant species of exaggeration form the chief sources of the humorous, some further specimens may be adduced. A great part of the proceedings of the court of judicature in the Tatler is of this description, especially that paper where the lover is drawn as struck stone dead by the loss of his snuff-box 5, a relation which it is impossible to read with a fixed countenance, or without feeling the keen, though somewhat gro tesque, ridicule of the representation. The two papers in the same work, descriptive of the characters of men and women under the appellation of musical instruments, display a happy mix Spectator, N 184. f Spectator, N 239. X Ditto, N 550,556. Guardian, N 97. Guardian, N 100, 112. Tatler, N 110. Tatler, N 153,157. VOL. II. N ture of humour and imagination; the idea, however, appears to have, been taken from a communication in a volume entitled, Philosophical Transactions and Collections, published in 1700. Sitting in some company, says the author, and having been, but a little before, musical, I chanced to take notice, that, in ordinary discourse, words were spoken in perfect notes; and that some of the company used eighths, some fifths, some thirds; and that his discourse which was most pleasing, his words, as to their tone, consisted most of concords, and were of discords, of such as made up harmony. The sa...

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