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"Their claims, indeed, are very great to the respect and attention of the reading world. An eminent critic and essayist of our age has said, 'If ever the best Tatlers and Spectators were equalled in their own kind, we should be inclined to guess that it must have been by the lost comedies of Menander.' This is meant to apply to the contributions of Addison; but the other essayists were, in some instances, by no means the inferiors of Addison, though their talents differed from his, and were perhaps less adapted to essay-writing. But such men as Steele, Johnson, and Hawkesworth, were among the first writers of their time.". -Boston Chronicle.

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