1st Edition

Essays from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals

Edited By M.G. Segar Copyright 1947
202 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1947, Essays from Eighteenth-Century Periodicals is a collection of essays from The Tatler , The Spectator , The Guardian , The Rambler , The Idler , and from many less well-known periodicals. The essays included represent the prose of the eighteenth century from 1709–1790. Though the book has been arranged primarily with a view to its use by students, the general... Read more

The Tatler 1. Introductory essay 2. Signposts 3. The Three Boys 4. The Classics not for Everyone 5.Tulips The Spectator 6. Aim of The Spectator 7. Ballads 8. Time 9. Will Wimble 10. A Country Sunday 11. Fashion 12. Public and Private Schools 13. A Young Ladies’ Journal The Guardian 14. Fine Gentlemen 15. Cruelty to Animals The Freeholder 16. The Tory Foxhunter The Freethinker 17. Philosophical Doubting 18. Philosophical Doubting The Champion 19. On Turncoats The Rambler 20. A Country Housekeeper 21. The Pedant The Covent Garden Journal 22. Dialogue between a Young Lady and a Philosopher The World 23. Shams in the Theatre 24. Dr Johnson’s Dictionary The Connoisseur 25. Country Congregations The Idler 26. Sober 27. Debtors in Prison The Bee 28. Spiders The Citizen of the World 29. The Man in Black 30. Beau Tibbs at Vauxhall The Mirror 31. Art in Nature 32. Hamlet The Lounger 33. The Country Dowager 34. Robert Burns

Biography

M.G. Segar