GENERAL

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER IX.

1709 to 1712.

The Tatler begun by Steele. Addison becomes a contributor.

State of manners. Times favourable to the design. Cha-

racter and purposes of Addison's papers. The war un-

popular. General dismissal of the whigs. Letter of Addison

in favor of Ambrose Philips. Notice of Hoadley. Letter to

Desmaiseaux. Situation of Swift. Letter of Steele to him.

Correspondence of Addison with Swift. Keally. Lord

Wharton. Is re-elected for Malmsbury. Adheres to his

party. Writes the whig Examiner. Account of the work.

Attacks Sacheverel. Coolness with Swift on political

grounds. Extracts from Swift's journal relating to Addison.

Steele drops the Tatler. And why. Sets up the Spectator.

Private concerns of Addison. Correspondence with Wortley

Montagu. Misrepresentations of his course of life by Pope

or Spence. Residence at Sandy End. Improved circum-

stances. Purchase of Bilton. Political services to the house

of Hanover

CHAPTER X.

1712 & 1713.

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Remarks on the Spectator. Transactions and intercourse with

Whiston. Clarke. Berkley. Notice of Pope's Essay on Cri-

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ticism in the Spectator. Letter of Steele to Pope.
Of Pope

to Addison. His patronage of Ambrose Philips. Cato brought

on the stage. Account of its reception by Tickell. By

Cibber. Error of Young. Pope's opinion on it. Hughes

applied to by Addison to write a fifth act. Anxiety of the

author. Pope's account of its reception. Literary remarks.

Publication of the tragedy. Complimentary poems prefixed

Criticism of Dennis, who is chastised by Pope. Letters on.

this subject. Further honours paid to Cato. Letter of Dr.

Smalridge

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CHAPTER XI.

1712 to 1715.

Quarrel of Pope with Addison. Preface to Tickell's Iliad, and

letters concerning it

CHAPTER XII.

1713 to 1715.

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Peace of Utrecht attacked by whigs. Addison's Count Tariff.

Pamphlet ascribed to him perhaps wrongfully. The Crisis.

Steele expelled the House of Commons for it. Assisted in

his defence by Addison and Walpole. Bolinbroke attempts

to bring him over to his party, but fails. His treatise on the

Evidences of Christianity. Character of the work. Steele

puts a stop to the Spectator at the end of the seventh volume

and sets up the Guardian. Character of Addison's papers in

it. Termination of the Guardian. Eighth volume of the

Spectator. Correspondence respecting a new periodical

work. State of public affairs. Declining health of the

Queen. Treachery of the ministers who conspire to bring in

the Pretender. Efforts of the Jacobites. Counter-measures

of whig peers. Quarrels of Oxford and Bolingbroke. Death

of the Queen. Vigorous measures of the council. George I.

proclaimed. Lords justices appointed. Addison chosen their

secretary. Foolish tale concerning him. Letter to M. de Ro-

bethon. His memorial to the King. Lord Sunderland lord