Down where yon anchoring vessel spreads the sail, 400 That idly waiting flaps with every gale,

Downward they move, a melancholy band,

Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand.
Contented Toil, and hospitable Care,

And kind connubial Tenderness, are there;
405 And Piety with wishes plac'd above,
And steady Loyalty, and faithful Love.
And thou, sweet Poetry, thou loveliest maid,
Still first to fly where sensual joys invade;
Unfit, in these degenerate times of shame,
410 To catch the heart, or strike for honest fame;
Dear charming nymph, neglected and decried,
My shame in crowds, my solitary pride;
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe,

That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me

so;

415 Thou guide, by which the nobler arts excel, Thou nurse of every virtue, fare thee well! Farewell! and oh! where'er thy voice be tried, On Torno's cliffs, or Pambamarca's side, Whether where equinoctial fervors glow, 420 Or winter wraps the polar world in snow, Still let thy voice, prevailing over time, Redress the rigors of the inclement clime; Aid slighted truth with thy persuasive strain; Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain; 425 Teach him, that states of native strength possest, 407. One is reminded of Bishop Berkeley's lines,

"Religion stands a-tiptoe on the strand

Waiting to pass to the American land."

409. Unfit, unsuited.

418. The river Tornea or Torneo falls into the Gulf of Bothnia. Pambamarca is given by Peter Cunningham as a mountain near Quito.

Though very poor, may still be very blest;
That trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay,
As ocean sweeps the labor'd mole

away;

While self-dependent power can time defy,

430 As rocks resist the billows and the sky.

427–430. "Dr. Johnson favored me at the same time by marking the lines which he furnished to Goldsmith's Deserted Village, which are only the last four."-Boswell.

SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY PAPERS.

INTRODUCTION.

The Spectator was a folio sheet which appeared in London on the first day of March, 1710-11,1 was issued daily until December 6, 1712, when it was discontinued for a year and a half, resumed June 18, 1714, and then issued three times a week until December 20 of the same year, when it ceased altogether. A daily paper, it resembled the modern daily paper only in having advertisements on the same sheet, but these were few and unobtrusive. It was in effect far more comparable with the modern magazine, for it left news and politics and trade to the general newspaper, which was then beginning to assert itself, and occupied itself with criticism on books, comments on fashions and manners, and, what interests us most, attempts at character drawing and portraits of typical personages.

The Spectator is chief among the papers of its class which occupied the central position in literature in the eighteenth century, and it holds its high place because it was almost wholly the work of the two best writers of English at that time, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele. Both of these men were artists in letters, but they had also that wholesome view of life which forbade them to treat men and manners merely as playthings for the

1 In the former half of the eighteenth century it was still common to treat the 25th of March as New Year's Day. In order, therefore, to indicate the precise year of the days between January 1 and March 25, it was customary to write the double year date as 1710-11, or 1711, meaning 1710, if the reader observed March 25 as New Year's Day; 1711 if he observed January 1.