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Excerpt from The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers From "the Spectator" Edited With Notes and an Introduction
AS to Addison's grammar, while his principal departures from modern idioms have been noted, the sacrilege Of par aphrasing has been studiously avoided. Here and there the papers have been Slightly edited for Obvious reasons. The Partridge hoax has been purposely treated at consider able length in the Introduction, not only because it is famous in literature, has a direct bearing upon the incep tion Of the Tatler, and is most amusing in itself, but also because it gives an interesting glimpse Of one Of the most famous contemporaries Of Steele and addison-h-dean Swift.
The chronological table has been made a little fuller than in other books Of this series, in the thought that some may become interested in the lives Of the two principal characters and wish to follow them up in detail. After a brief course of reading in some of thebooks suggested under bibliography (p. The student might be required to write a sketch of Addison or Steele, using asa brief the chronological table.
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