...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele.' It is as if we were to hear Defoe apologising for dressing up as Robinson Crusoe, assuring us that...

...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." The Tatler appeared three times a week, and as at the beginning it was written practically by Steele...

...is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this a man would make at best but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." In this final issue, and again in the preface to an edition of the papers in book form, Steele assigned...

...my Life is at best but pardonable : And with no greater Character than this, a Man would make but an indifferent Progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...Efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." Upon the face of them these are sufficient reasons, and they would have sufficed had it not been for...

...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." Addison soon joined forces with his friend and helped to make The Tatler still more popular. This periodical...

...my life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...I should err against that candour, which an honest man should always carry about him, if I did not own, that the most approved pieces in it were written...

...but an indifferent Progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable V1ces, which Mr. Bickerstaffhas done with a Freedom of Spirit that would have lost...Beauty and Efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steeled It seems hardly coincidental, then, that the next periodical persona is narratively distinguished...

...my Life is at best but pardonable. And, with no greater Character than this, a Man would make but an indifferent Progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...and Efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele ... But to enquire into Men's Faults and Weaknesses has something in it so unwelcome, that I have often...

...my life is at best but pardonable. And with no greater character than this, a man would make but an indifferent progress in attacking prevailing and fashionable...efficacy, had it been pretended to by Mr. Steele." — Tatler, No. 271. It may still be supposed, that he assumed his serious mood, like his different...