[204] The preceding portion of this paper is printed in Tickell's edition of Addison's Works.
[207] See No. 101.
[208] Bernard Lintot (1675-1736) was Jacob Tonson's principal rival in the publishing trade in the time of Queen Anne and George I.
[209] The author of a curious pamphlet, "The Critical Specimen," 1711, said he was much divided in his opinion, whether to prefer the every way excellent Mr. Jacob Tonson, junior, or Mr. Bernard Lintot to be his bookseller, for the latter of whom he had had a particular consideration since he received this eulogium from his honoured friend Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.—This pamphlet purports to be a specimen of a proposed Life of Rinaldo Furioso, Critic of the Woful Countenance,—i.e., John Dennis. It contains remarks upon the two good lines he wrote (Spectator, No. [47]) upon the difficulty of distinguishing his comedies from his tragedies, &c. &c. There is, too, an allusion to the Tatlers and Spectators in the notice that the virtues of the critic are to be printed in a very small neat Elzevir character, and his extravagances in a noble large letter on royal paper.