Addison’s Papers in the Spectator: Reprinted from the Baskerville Edition of his Works and Preceded by the Right Hon. T.B. Macaulay’s Essay on his Life and Writings

He admired the narrow streets overhung by long lines of towering places the walls rich with frescoes the gorgeous temple of the Annuncition and the tapestries whereon were recorded the long glories of the house of Doria. [...] The felucca passed the healand where the oar and trumpet were placed by the Trojan adventurers on the tomb of Misenus and anchored at night under the salter of the fabled promontory of Circe. [...] The throne was surrounded by men supposed to be attaced to the prerogative and to the Church; and among these none stood so high in the favour of the Sovereign as the Lord-Treasurer Godolphin and the Captain-General Marlborouigh. [...] The crowd of readers who expected politics and scandal speculations on the projects of Victor Amadeus and anecdotes about the jollities of convents and the amours of cardinals and nuns were cofounded by finding that the writer's mind was much more occupied by the war between the Trojans and Rutulians than by the war between France and Austria ; and that he seemed to have heard no scandal of [...] If a political tract were to appear superior to the Conduct of the Allies or to the best numbers of the Freeholder the circulation of such a tract woub I b..hguid indeed when compared with the circulation of every reinarkah' c word uttered in the deliberations of the legislature.