BIOGRAPHICAL, CRITICAL, AND HISTORICAL, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE RAMBLER, ADVENTURER, & IDLER, AND OF THE VARIOUS PERIODICAL PAPERS WHICH, In Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED Between the Close of the eighth volume of the Spectator, BY NATHAN DRAKE, M. D. AUTHOR OF LITERARY HOURS, AND OF ESSAYS ON THE TATLER, SPECTATOR, AND GUARDIAN. Evolvendi penitus auctores qui de virtute præcipiunt, ut IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PRINTED BY J. SEELEY, BUCKINGHAM, FOR W. SUTTABY, STATIONERS COURT, LONDON. 1809. ESSAY 1. Observations on the Taste which had been generated by Steele and Addison for Periodical Composi- tion. Enumeration of the Perio- dical Papers which were written during the publication of the Tat- ler, Spectator, and Guardian.... ESSAY 2. Observations on the Periodical Pa- 1 |