In 1709 Steele began to bring out Tatler, to which Addison became almost immediately a contributor: thereafter he ( with Steele ) started The Spectator, the first number of which appeared on 1 March 1711.

On 1 March 1711, The Spectator was published, and it continued until 6 December 1712.

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( An earlier national personification was Sir Roger de Coverley, from The Spectator ( 1711 ).

Although in his youth he contributed to The Spectator ( 1711 ) over the signature Philip Homebred, he seems early to have abandoned all care for literature, and he has been reproached by Lord Campbell and others with his neglect of art and letters.

Dennis had fallen out with Addison in April 1711, over an essay that contained a good-humoured rejection of the notion of poetic justice in The Spectator, No. 40.

In 1711 Joseph Addison wrote in The Spectator,

"— Joseph Addison, Spectator 1711.

Perhaps the earliest version was written by Joseph Addison in an essay appearing in The Spectator on March 8, 1711.

By 1711, when The Spectator began, there was already a thriving industry of periodical literature in London, but The Spectator was far and away the most successful and significant periodical of the era.

An enthusiast for English periodicals, and in particular, the The Spectator of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, soon after first issues of The Spectator he launched Le Misanthrope ( 1711 – 1712 ) ( a widely read journal referred to as " the first moralist periodical on the continent "), Le Bagatelle ( 1718 – 1719 ), Le Spectateur Français ( 1725 ) and then in his native language, the Hollandsche Spectator ( 1731 – 1735 ).

The Spectator from 7 June 1711

The Spectator was a daily publication founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School ; it lasted from 1711 to 1712.

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Sir Roger de Coverley was also the name of a character in The Spectator ( 1711 ).

In Australia, The Advertiser, Herald Sun, The Sun-Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail ( All News Ltd papers ), The West Australian, The Mercury, The Hamilton Spectator, The Portland Observer, The Casterton News and The Melbourne Observer.

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

At Columbia, Kilmer was vice-president of the Philolexian Society ( a literary society ), associate editor of Columbia Spectator ( the campus newspaper ), and member of the Debating Union.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

In the same year David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, resigned from the government after it emerged he had been having an affair with The Spectator ’ s publisher, Kimberly Quinn ( then Fortier ), and had fast-tracked her nanny ’ s visa application.

* The English writer Auberon Waugh, writing in The Spectator in the 1970s in response to an article Pilger had written alleging Thai complicity in child trafficking ( whose research was challenged ), coined the verb " to pilger ", defined as: to present information in a sensationalist manner to reach a foregone conclusion.

He published ( 1721 – 1723 ), in conjunction with Johann Jakob Breitinger and others, Die Discourse der Mahlern, a weekly journal after the model of The Spectator.

A finalist for the prestigious National Magazine Award, his articles have appeared around the world including in such magazines as Readers ’ Digest, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Forbes. com, USA Weekend, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, Reason, Policy Review, The American Spectator, Nature Medicine, The Spectator ( London ), a3Umwelt ( Austria ), and The Bulletin ( Australia ).

Then followed Daphnis ( 1754 ), Idyllen ( 1756 and 1772 ), Inkel and Yariko ( 1756 ), a version of a story borrowed from The Spectator and already worked out by Gellert and Bodmer, and Der Tod Abels ( 1758 ), which Gessner called “ a sort of idyllic prose pastoral .”

He was born at Geneva, of a family which had already made its mark in the literary and scientific world: his great-aunt, Marie Huber, was known as a voluminous writer on religious and theological subjects, and as the translator and epitomizer of The Spectator ( Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1753 ); and his father Jean Huber ( 1721 – 1786 ), who had served for many years as a soldier, was a prominent member of the coterie at Ferney, distinguishing himself by his Observations sur le vol des oiseaux ( Geneva, 1784 ).

Among his other publications may be mentioned Essays, Theological and Literary ( 1871 ; revised 1888 ), and Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers ( 1894 ); and his opinions may be studied compendiously in the selections from his Spectator articles published in 1899 under the title of Aspects of Religious and Scientific Thought.

In July 2004, they bought The Telegraph Group ( now Telegraph Media Group ), which includes The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Spectator after months of intense bidding and lawsuits.

* Osservatore Veneto periodico ( 1761 ), on the model of the English The Spectator, and distinguished by its high moral tone and its light and pleasant satire

:* The Spectator, ( Patrick Leigh Fermor ), 3 March 2007.

Brown was educated at Eton and Bristol University and then became a freelance journalist in London, contributing to The Tatler, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, the Evening Standard ( as a regular columnist ), The Times ( notably as parliamentary sketchwriter ; these columns were compiled into a book called A Life Inside ) and The Sunday Times ( as TV and restaurant critic ).

She was lauded after her death for both her philosophical writings, by Dr. Robert Lewins and for her poetry in an article by the Liberal MP William Ewart Gladstone ( three times prime minister ) in the Spectator ( 11 January 1890 ), in which he ranked her among the top eight women poets of the nineteenth century.

He is an associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he is the author of Too Beautiful for You ( 2003 ), Love Will Destroy Everything ( 2007 ), and co-author of The Best of Liddle Britain ( 2007 ).

Yet, his work has been called a " hoax " and " discredited " by conservatives like Ann Coulter, it was also disputed by the American Spectator, which caused Scaife to end his funding of the Arkansas Project with the publisher.

Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".

In March the same year, Jenny Nicholson, a frequent contributor, wrote a piece on the Italian Socialist Party congress in Venice, which mentioned three Labour MPs " who puzzled the Italians by filling themselves like tanks with whisky and coffee …" All three sued for libel, the case went to trial and The Spectator was forced to make a large payment in damages and costs, a sum well over the equivalent of £ 150, 000 today.

The Spectator changed hands again in 1985, by which time it had accumulated an overdraft of over £ 300, 000 and it was facing financial meltdown.

" In the end The Spectator was bought by the Telegraph Group, of which Conrad Black then had a controlling interest.

During his four years as editor of The Spectator, he made several editorial and structural changes to the magazine, " not all of which were universally popular with readers ".

In 2007 The Spectator moved its offices from Doughty Street, which had been its home for 31 years, to 22 Old Queen Street in Westminster, leaving Bloomsbury for the first time since the paper ’ s founding in 1828.

In 1957, Bevan joined Richard Crossman and Morgan Phillips in a controversial lawsuit for libel against The Spectator magazine, which had described the men as drinking heavily during a socialist conference in Italy.

He also gained an acquaintance with a country that would feature prominently in his writing, which he resumed upon his return to London, at the same time entering into a partnership in the Thomas Nelson & Son publishing company and becoming editor of The Spectator.

Chronologically between the two are " The Wimsey Papers ", a series of epistolary articles written at the beginning of World War II, which Sayers wrote for The Spectator.

The Spectator which was issued daily and achieved great popularity.

George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that " PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left-wing bias ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.

The Verri brothers and Beccaria started an important cultural reformist movement centered around their journal Il Caffè (" The Coffeehouse "), which ran from the summer of 1764 for about two years, and was inspired by Addison and Steele's literary magazine, The Spectator and other such journals.

At Edinburgh Mackenzie belonged to a literary club, at the meetings of which papers in the manner of The Spectator were read.

In the early 1990s the foundation helped support The American Spectator, which at the time was researching damaging material on President Bill Clinton.

The Spectator, which gradually became a prosperous property, was an outlet for his views, particularly on literary, religious and philosophical subjects, in opposition to the agnostic and rationalistic opinions then current in intellectual circles, as popularized by T. H. Huxley.

An account of the first floating of the tubes of the bridge is recorded in The Spectator of 23 June 1849, which was Grove's first appearance in print.

Spectator sports require venues or sometimes stadiums in which the fans may observe a game or event.

In 2011, following the term's offhand use in a March 26 article appearing in The Spectator (" white-coated Jap bloke "), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that " most Japanese people find the word ‘ Jap ’ offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used.