...friend Steele had embarked in a novel kind of literary venture, a journal "which", as he said, "was to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." The Tatter to which Addison had become a regular contributor, appeared three times a week from the...

...To check the spread of these fashionable excesses, Steele established the Tatler. In it he undertook to " expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behavior." The Tatler was not, as is sometimes supposed, the first English newspaper. That distinction...

...first number of The Spectator came out. " The general purpose of this paper," said the dedication, " is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." There was to be no political news, a significant fact; and it was proved by the instantaneous success...

...the dedication of the first volume to Mr. Maynwaring he says: " The general purpose of this paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." This is supplemented by hints in the first number of The Taller, in which the main divisions of the...

...build, who build beneath the stars." 471. " The general purpose of this paper," said The Toiler, " is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behavior." 472. Charles Lamb was called " the genial Charles." 473. Captain John Byron, the father...

...first volume of the Tatler Steele thus set forth its purpose: "The general purpose of this paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse and our behavior." But Steele was not always bent upon reforming society. In the paper here quoted, as in many...

...on to say that " the general purpose of this Paper is to expose the false arts of life, to pull oft" the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation,...and to recommend a general simplicity in our dress, out discourse, and our behaviour. " That Steele succeeded in this laudable purpose has been amply made...

...morals, a corrector of the public taste, and exponent of everyday London topics. His aim was, as he said, "to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behaviour." "The Spectator" All these elements in the Tatler combined to prepare the way for the more finished...

...in these last that the authors carried out most fully the object which they set before themselves, "to expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behavior." Although The Tatler appealed to the public without distinction of party, it was colored...

...was a small folio sheet appearing three times a week, which modestly announced its general purpose, "To expose the false arts of life, to pull off the...general simplicity in our dress, our discourse, and our behavior." In explanation of his already familiar pseudonym, Isaac Bickerstaff, Steele says: "The general...