Excerpt from The Spectator: Essays I.-LWe have already seen that Steele assigns as a reason for giving up the Tatler, that he became known as the author: this, however, sav a lit tle of the cant of authorship. He was known long before the Tatler had reached half its progress, as appears from the personal attacks made upon h' by his contemporaries; but the length of the work afi'ords one reason why it should not be protracted until it became too bulky, and a still better reason was, the design evidently formed of beginning a new paper. The event proves that Steele and Addison immediately formed the plan of the Spec tator, probably communicated to each other the first sketch of the club, and determined that the work should be free from political intelligence at least, if not from political discussion; and that each paper should consist of one entire Essay, unless when the subject required to be treated in the form of correspondence by themselves, or when real cor respondence should be thought worthy of insertion.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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