innovation he was reduced to a starving condition, This venerable old man, knowing how his abilities and could not live upon his office. Chremylus, who were impaired by age, and that it was impossible in the beginning of the play was religious in his for him to recollect all those reasons which had poverty, concludes it with a proposal, which was directed him in the choice of his religion, left his relished by all the good men who were now grown companions, who were in the full possession of their rich as well as himself, that they should carry parts and learning, to baffle and confound their Plutus in a solemn procession to the temple, and antagonists by the force of reason. As for him. instal him in the place of Jupiter. This allegory self, he only repeated to his adversaries the arti instructed the Athenians in two points: first, as it cles in which he firmly believed, and in the provindicated the conduct of Providence in its ordi- fession of which he was determined to die. It is nary distributions of wealth; and in the next place, in this manner that the mathematician proceeds as it showed the great tendency of riches to cor-upon propositions which he has once demonstrat rupt the morals of those who possessed them.

ADDISON.

N° 465. SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1712.

Qua ratione queas traducere leniter ævum;
Ne te semper inops agitet vexetque cupido;
Ne pavor et rerum mediocriter utilium spes.

C.

HOR. Ep. xviii. l. 1. ver. 97.

How thou may'st live, how spend thine age in peace,
Lest avarice, still poor, disturb thine ease:
Or fears should shake, or cares thy mind abuse,
Or ardent hope for things of little use.

CREECH.

ed; and, though the demonstration may have slip. ped out of his memory, he builds upon the truth, because he knows it was demonstrated. This rule is absolutely necessary for weaker minds, and in some measure for men of the greatest abilities; but to these last I would propose, in the second place, that they should lay up in their memories, and always keep by them in readiness, those arguments which appear to them of the greatest strength, and which cannot be got over by all the doubts and cavils of infidelity.

But, in the third place, there is nothing which strengthens faith more than morality. Faith and morality naturally produce each other. A man is quickly convinced of the truth of religion, who HAVING endeavoured in my last Saturday's paper finds it is not against his interest that it should to show the great excellency of faith, I shall here be true. The pleasure he receives at present, and consider what are the proper means of strengthen- the happiness which he promises himself from it Those hereafter, will both dispose him very powerfully ing and confirming it in the mind of man. who delight in reading books of controversy, which to give credit to it, according to the ordinary ob are written on both sides of the question on points servation, that we are easy to believe what we of faith, do very seldom arrive at a fixed and settled wish. It is very certain, that a man of sound rea habit of it. They are one day entirely convinced son cannot forbear closing with religion upon an of its important truths, and the next meet with impartial examination of it; but at the same time something that shakes and disturbs them. The it is certain, that faith is kept alive in us, and ga doubt which was laid revives again, and shows it-thers strength from practice more than from spe self in new difficulties, and that generally for this culation. There is still another method, which is more per reason, because the mind, which is perpetually tossed in controversies and disputes, is apt to forget suasive than any of the former; and that is an ha the reasons which had once set it at rest, and to bitual adoration of the Supreme Being, as well in be disquieted with any former perplexity, when it constant acts of mental worship, as in outward appears in a new shape, or is started by a different forms. The devout man does not only believe, but hand. As nothing is more laudable than an inquiry feels there is a Deity. He has actual sensations of after truth, so nothing is more irrational than to him; his experience concurs with his reason; pass away our whole lives, without determining sees him more and more in all his intercourses ourselves one way or other in those points which with him, and even in this life almost loses his faith are of the last importance to us. There are indeed in conviction. The last method which I shall mention for the many things from which we may withhold our assent; but in cases by which we are to regulate our giving life to a man's faith, is frequent retirement lives, it is the greatest absurdity to be wavering from the world, accompanied with religious medi and unsettled, without closing with that side which tation. When a man thinks of any thing in the appears the most safe and the most probable. The darkness of the night, whatever deep impressions first rule, therefore, which I shall lay down, is this, it may make in his mind, they are apt to vanish as that when by reading or discourse we find ourselves soon as the day breaks about him. The light and thoroughly convinced of the truth of any article, noise of the day, which are perpetually soliciting and of the reasonableness of our belief in it, we his senses, and calling off his attention, wear out should never after suffer ourselves to call it into of his mind the thoughts that imprinted themselves question. We may perhaps forget the arguments in it, with so much strength, during the silence and which occasioned our conviction; but we ought to darkness of the night. A man finds the same di remember the strength they had with us, and there-ference as to himself in a crowd and in a solitude: fore still to retain the conviction which they once the mind is stunned and dazzled amidst that a produced. This is no more than what we do in riety of objects which press upon her in a gre every common art or science; nor is it possible to city. She cannot apply herself to the consideration act otherwise, considering the weakness and limi- of those things which are of the utmost concern to tation of our intellectual faculties. It was thus her. The cares or pleasures of the world strike in Latimer, one of the glorious army of martyrs, who with every thought, and a multitude of vicious e introduced the reformation in England, behaved amples give a kind of justification to our folly. himself in that great conference which was ma. In our retirements every thing disposes us to be naged between the most learned among the pro./serious. In courts and cities we are entertained testants and papists in the reign of Queen Mary, with the works of men; in the country, with those One is the province of art, the other of Faith and devotion naturally grow in the

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"The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,

And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim:

Th' unwearied sun from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display,
And publishes to every land
The works of an almighty hand.

Soon as the ev'ning shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth:

Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,

And spread the truth from pole to pole.

What though, in solemn silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs be found?
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine."
ADDISON.

No 466. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1712.

Vera incessu patuit dea.

VIRG. En. i. ver. 409.
And by her graceful walk the queen of love is known.
DRYDEN.

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raged, would prompt him to better things. In all the dances he invents, you see he keeps close to the characters he represents. He does not hope to please by making his performers move in a manner in which no one else ever did, but by motions proper to the characters he represents. He gives to clowns and lubbards clumsy graces; that is, he makes them practise what they would think graces: and I have seen dances of his, which might give hints that would be useful to a comic writer. These performances bave pleased the taste of such as have not reflection enough to know their excellence, because they are in nature; and the distorted motions of others have offended those who could not form reasons to themselves for their displeasure, from their being a contradiction to

nature.

When one considers the inexpressible advantage there is in arriving at some excellence in this art, it is monstrous to behold it so much neglected. The following letter has in it something very natural on this subject.

'MR. SPECTATOR,

I AM a widower with but one daughter: she was by nature much inclined to be a romp; and I had no way of educating her, but commanding a young woman, whom I entertained to take care of her, to be very watchful in her care and attendance about her. I am a man of business, and obliged to be much abroad. The neighbours have told me, that in my absence our maid has let in the spruce servants in the neighbourhood to junketings, while WHEN Eneas, the hero of Virgil, is lost in the my girl played and romped even in the street. To wood, and a perfect stranger in the place on which tell you the plain truth, I catched her once, at he is landed, he is accosted by a lady in an habit eleven years old, at chuck-farthing among the boys. for the chase. She inquires of him, whether he has This put me upon new thoughts about my child, seen pass by that way any young woman dressed and I determined to place her at a boarding-school: as she was whether she were following the sport and at the same time gave a very discreet young in the wood, or any other way employed, accord-gentlewoman her maintenance at the same place ing to the custom of huntresses? The hero answers and rate, to be her companion. I took little nowith the respect due to the beautiful appearance tice of my girl from time to time, but saw her now she made; tells her, he saw no such person as she and then in good health, out of harm's way, and inquired for; but intimates that he knows her to was satisfied. But by much importunity, I was be of the deities, and desires she would conduct a lately prevailed with to go to one of their balls. stranger. Her form from her first appearance ma- I cannot express to you the anxiety my silly heart nifested she was more than mortal; but, though she was in, when I saw my romp, now fifteen, taken was certainly a goddess, the poet does not make out: I never felt the pangs of a father upon me so her known to be the goddess of beauty till she strongly in my whole life before; and I could not moved. All the charms of an agreeable person

are then in their highest exertion, every limb and

* See Nos. 65, 67, 334, 370, and 376. Tat. Nos. 34 and 68.

have suffered more had my whole fortune been at agreeable shape; but the folly of the thing is such, stake. My girl came on with the most becoming that it smiles so impertinently, and affects to please modesty I had ever seen, and casting a respectful so sillily, that while she dances you see the simeye, as if she feared me more than all the audience, pleton from head to foot. For you must know (as I gave a nod, which I think gave her all the spirit trivial as this art is thought to be) no one ever was she assumed upon it; but she rose properly to that a good dancer, that had not a good understanding. dignity of aspect. My romp, now the most grace-If this be a truth, I shall leave the reader to judge, ful person of her sex, assumed a majesty, which from that maxim, what esteem they ought to have commanded the highest respect: and when she for such impertinents as fly, hop, caper, tumble, turned to me, and saw my face in rapture, she fell twirl, turn round, and jump over their heads; and, into the prettiest smile, and I saw in all her mo-in a word, play a thousand pranks which many tions that she exulted in her father's satisfaction. animals can do better than a man, instead of per You, Mr. Spectator, will, better than I can tell forming to perfection what the human figure only you, imagine to yourself all the different beauties is capable of performing. and changes of aspect in an accomplished young It may perhaps appear odd, that I, who set up woman setting forth all her beauties with a design for a mighty lover at least of virtue, should take to please no one so much as her father. My girl's so much pains to recommend what the soberer part lover can never know half the satisfaction that of mankind look upon to be a trifle; but, under did in her that day. I could not possibly have favour of the soberer part of mankind, I think imagined, that so great improvement could have they have not enough considered this matter, and been wrought by an art that I always held in itself for that reason only disesteem it. I must also, in ridiculous and contemptible. There is, I am con- my own justification, say, that I attempt to bring vinced, no method like this, to give young women into the service of honour and virtue every thing a sense of their own value and dignity; and I am in nature that can pretend to give elegant delight. sure there can be none so expeditious to commu. It may possibly be proved, that vice is in itself de nicate that value to others. As for the flippant structive of pleasure, and virtue in itself conducive insipidly gay, and wantonly forward, whom you to it. If the delights of a free fortune were under behold among dancers, that carriage is more to be proper regulations, this truth would not want much attributed to the perverse genius of the performers, argument to support it; but it would be obvious than imputed to the art itself. For my part, my to every man, that there is a strict affinity between child has danced herself into my esteem; and all things that are truly laudable and beautiful, have as great an honour for her as ever I had for from the highest sentiment of the soul to the most her mother, from whom she derived those latent indifferent gesture of the body. good qualities which appeared in her countenance when she was dancing; for my girl, though I say it myself, showed in one quarter of an hour the innate principles of a modest virgin, a tender wife, a generous friend, a kind mother, and an indulgent mistress. I will strain hard but I will purchase for her a husband suitable to her merit. I am your convert in the admiration of what I thought you jested when you recommended; and if you please to be at my house on Thursday next, I make a ball for my daughter, and you shall see her dance, or, if you will do her that honour, dance with her.

'I am SIR,

'Your most humble servant,
PHILIPATER.'

STEELE.

N° 467. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1712.

•Quodcunque meæ poterunt audere camœnæ,
Seu tibi par poterunt: seu, quod spes abnuit, ultra;
Sive minus; certeque canent minus: omne vovemus
Hoc tibi: ne tanto careat mihi nomine charia.

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TIBULL. ad Messalam, Eleg. i. l. 4. ver. 24.
"Whate'er may muse adventurous dares indite,
Whether the niceness of thy piercing sight
Applaud my lays, or censure what I write;
To thee I sing, and hope to borrow fame,
By adding to my page Messala's name.'

THE love of praise is a passion deeply fixed in the mind of every extraordinary person; and those I have some time ago* spoken of a treatise who are most affected with it, seem most to par written by Mr. Weaver on this subject, which is take of that particle of the divinity which distin now, I understand, ready to be published. This guishes mankind from the inferior creation. The work sets this matter in a very plain and advan- Supreme Being itself is most pleased with praise tageous light; and I am convinced from it, that if and thanksgiving: the other part of our duty is the art was under proper regulations, it would be but an acknowledgment of our faults, whilst this is a mechanic way of implanting insensibly, in minds the immediate adoration of his perfections. 'Twas not capable of receiving it so well by any other an excellent observation, that we then only despise rules, a sense of good breeding and virtue. commendation when we cease to deserve it: and Were any one to see Mariamnet dance, let we have still extant two orations of Tully and him be never so sensual a brute, I defy him to Pliny, spoken to the greatest and best princes of entertain any thoughts but of the highest respect all the Roman emperors, who, no doubt, heard with and esteem towards her. I was showed last week the greatest satisfaction, what even the most disin a picture in a lady's closet, for which she had an terested persons, and at so large a distance of time, hundred different dresses, that she could clap on cannot read without admiration. Cesar thought round the face on purpose to demonstrate the force his life consisted in the breath of praise, when he of habits in the diversity of the same countenance professed he had lived long enough for himself, Motion, and change of posture and aspect, has an when he had for his glory. Others have sacrificed effect no less surprising on the person of Mariamne themselves for a name which was not to begin till when she dances. they were dead, giving away themselves to pur Chloe is extremely pretty, and as silly as she is chase a sound which was not to commence till they pretty. This idiot has a very good ear, and a most were out of hearing But by merit and superior excellencies, not only to gain, but, whilst living, to enjoy a great and universal reputation is the

* No. 334.

+ Perhaps Mrs. Bicknell, see No. 370.

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last degree of happiness which we can hope for here. Bad characters are dispersed abroad with With an unenvious hand, and an unbounded heart.' profusion, I hope for example sake, and (as punishments are designed by the civil power) more Never did Atticus succeed better in gaining the for the deterring the innocent, than the chastising universal love and esteem of all men; nor steer the guilty. The good are less frequent, whether it with more success between the extremes of two be that there are indeed fewer originals of this contending parties. 'Tis his peculiar happiness, kind to copy after, or that, through the malignity that, while he espouses neither with an intemperate of our nature, we rather delight in the ridicule zeal, he is not only admired, but, what is a more jump orarer than the virtues we find in others. However, it is rare and unusual felicity, he is beloved and cacousand prabut just, as well as pleasing, even for variety, some-ressed by both; and I never yet saw any person, than a times to give the world a representation of the of whatever age or sex, but was immediately struck bright side of human nature, as well as the dark with the merit of Manilius. There are many who and gloomy. The desire of imitation may, perhaps, are acceptable to some particular persons, whilst be a greater incentive to the practice of what is the rest of mankind look upon them with coolness good, than the aversion we may conceive at what and indifference; but he is the first whose entire is blameable: the one immediately directs you good fortune it is, ever to please and to be pleased; what you should do, whilst the other only shows where he comes, to be admired; and wherever he you what you should avoid; and I cannot at pre- is absent, to be lamented. His merit fares like sent do this with more satisfaction, than by en- the pictures of Raphael, which are either seen with deavouring to do some justice to the character of admiration by all, or at least no one dare own he Manilius. has no taste for a composition which has received so

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that he looks back with pleasure on the waves and It is below him to catch the sight with any care billows through which he has steered to so fair an of dress; his outward garb is but the emblem of haven: he is now intent upon the practice of his mind. It is genteel, plain, and unaffected; he every virtue, which a great knowledge and use of knows that gold and embroidery can add nothing mankind has discovered to be the most useful to to the opinion which all have of his merit, and them. Thus in his private domestic enjoyments that he gives a lustre to the plainest dress, whilst he is no less glorious than in his public; for it is 'tis impossible the richest should communicate any in reality a more difficult task to be conspicuous in to him. He is still the principal figure in the room. a sedentary inactive life, than in one that is spent He first engages your eye, as if there were some in hurry and business: persons engaged in the lat-point of light which shone stronger upon him than ter, like bodies violently agitated, from the swift-on any other person.

ness of their motion have a brightness added to He puts me in mind of a story of the famous them, which often vanishes when they are at rest: Bussy d'Amboise, who, at an assembly at court, but if it then still remain, it must be the seeds of intrinsic worth that thus shine out without any foreign aid or assistance.

where every one appeared with the utmost magnificence, relying upon his own superior behaviour, instead of adorning himself like the rest, put on His liberality in another might almost bear the that day a plain suit of clothes, and dressed all his name of profusion: he seems to think it laudable servants in the most costly gay habits he could proeven in the excess, like that river which most cure. The event was, that the eye of the whole enriches when it overflows. But Manilius has too court were fixed upon him; all the rest looked perfect a taste of the pleasure of doing good, ever like his attendants, while he alone had the air of to let it be out of his power; and for that reason a person of quality and distinction. he will have a just economy, and a splendid frugality at home, the fountain from whence those streams should flow which he disperses abroad He looks with disdain on those who propose their death, as the time when they are to begin their munificence: he will both see and enjoy (which he then does in the highest degree) what he bestows himself; he will be the living executor of his own bounty, whilst they who have the happiness to be within his care and patronage, at once pray for the A thousand obliging things flow from him upon continuation of his life, and their own good for- every occasion; and they are always so just and tune. No one is out of the reach of his obliga-natural, that it is impossible to think he was at the tions; he knows how, by proper and becoming least pains to look for them. One would think it methods, to raise himself to a level with those of was the demon of good thoughts that discovered to the highest rank; and his good-nature is a sufficient him those treasures, which he must have blinded warrant against the want of those who are so un-others from seeing, they lay so directly in their happy as to be in the very lowest. One may say way. Nothing can equal the pleasure is taken in of him, as Pindar bids his muse say of Theron,

'Swear, that Theron sure has sworn,

No one near him should be poor.

The Nile, in Egypt.

Like Aristippus, whatever shape or condition he appears in, it still sits free and easy upon him; but in some part of his character, 'tis true, he differs from him; for as he is altogether equal to the largeness of his present circumstances, the rectitude of his judgment has so far corrected the inclinations of his ambition, that he will not trouble himself with either the desires or pursuits of any thing beyond his present enjoyments.

hearing him speak, but the satisfaction one receives in the civility and attention he pays to the discourse of others. His looks are a silent commendation of what is good and praise-worthy, and a secret reproof to what is licentious and extrava

gant. He knows how to appear free and open raise up a pensive temper, and mortify an impertiwithout danger of intrusion, and to be cautious nently gay one, with the most agreeable skill ima without seeming reserved. The gravity of his con- ginable. There are a thousand things which crowd versation is always enlivened with his wit and hu- into my memory, which make me too much con mour, and the gaiety of it is tempered with some-cerned to tell on about him. Hamlet holding up thing that is instructive, as well as barely agree. the skull which the grave-digger threw to him, with able. Thus with him you are sure not to be merry an account that it was the head of the king's jester, at the expense of your reason, nor serious with falls into very pleasing reflections, and cries out to the loss of your good-humour; but, by a happy his companion, mixture in his temper, they either go together, or perpetually succeed each other. In fine, his whole behaviour is equally distant from constraint and negligence, and he commands your respect, whilst he gains your heart.

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; be hath borne me on his back a thousand times: and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of mer riment that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite

There is in his whole carriage such an engaging softness, that one cannot persuade one's self he is ever actuated by those rougher passions, which, wherever they find place, seldom fail of showing themselves in the outward demeanour of the per- chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, sons they belong to; but his constitution is a just temperature between indolence on one hand, and violence on the other. He is mild and gentle, wherever his affairs will give him leave to follow his own inclinations; but yet never failing to exert himself with vigour and resolution in the service of his prince, his country, or his friend.*

and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. Make her laugh at that.'

It is an insolence natural to the wealthy, to affix, as much as in them lies, the character of a man to his circumstances. Thus it is ordinary with them to praise faintly the good qualities of those below them, and say, it is very extraordinary in such a man as he is, or the like, when they are forced to acknowledge the value of him whose lowness upbraids their exaltation. It is to this humour only, that it is to be ascribed, that a quick wit in conversation, a nice judgment upon any emergency that could arise, and a most blameless

Erat homo ingeniosus, acutus, acer, et qui plurimum et salis inoffensive behaviour, could not raise this man

haberet et fellis, nec candoris minus.

PLIN. Epist.

He was an ingenious, pleasant fellow, and one who had a great

deal of wit and satire, with an equal share of good humour.

of

above being received only upon the foot of contributing to mirth and diversion. But he was as easy talents was capable; and since they would have under that condition, as a man of so excellent it, that to divert was his business, he did it with Mr paper is in a kind a letter of news, but it re-all the seeming alacrity imaginable, though it stung gards rather what passes in the world of conversa-him to the heart that it was his business. Men of tion than that of business. I am very sorry that I sense, who could taste his excellencies, were well have at present a circumstance before me, which is satisfied to let him lead the way in conversation, of very great importance to ali who have a relish and play after his own manner; but fools, who for gaiety, wit, mirth, or humour; I mean the death provoked him to mimickry, found he had the indig of poor Dick Eastcourt. I have been obliged to nation to let it be at their expense who called for him for so many hours of jollity, that it is but a it, and he would show the form of conceited heary small recompense, though all I can give him, to fellows as jests to the company at their own re pass a moment or two in sadness for the loss of so quest, in revenge for interrupting him from being a agreeable a man. Poor Eastcourt! the last time I companion, to put on the character of a jester. saw him, we were plotting to show the town his What was peculiarly excellent in this memorable great capacity for acting in his full light, by intro- companion, was, that in the accounts he gave ducing him as dictating to a set of young players, persons and sentiments, he did not only hit the in what manner to speak this sentence, and utter figure of their faces, and manner of their gestures, t'other passion. He had so exquisite a discerning but he would in his narration fall into their very of what was defective in any object before him, way of thinking, and this when he recounted pas that in an instant he could show you the ridiculous sages, wherein men of the best wit were concerned, side of what would pass for beautiful and just, as well as such wherein were represented men of even to men of no ill judgment, before he had the lowest rank of understanding. It is certainly pointed at the failure. He was no less skilful in as great an instance of self-love to a weakness, to the knowledge of beauty; and, I dare say, there is be impatient of being mimicked, as any can be no one who knew him well, but can repeat more imagined. There were none but the vain, the for well-turned compliments, as well as smart repar./mal, the proud, or those who were incapable e tees of Mr. Eastcourt's, than of any other man in amending their faults, that dreaded him; to others, inimitable faculty of telling a story, in which he not know any satisfaction of any indifferent kind would throw in natural and unexpected incidents, I ever tasted so much, as having got over and to make his court to one part, and rally the other patience of my seeing myself in the air he could part of the company. Then he would vary the put me when I have displeased him. It is indeed

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and friendship from Mr. Hughes to his patron Lord Cowper.

† See Nus, 358 and 370.

ner, my speech, or my address. It is to poor East[court I chiefly owe that I am arrived at the happi