THE SPECTATOR.* 



Tuesday, July 8, 1712. 



Frigora mitescunt Zephyris, Verproterit sEstas 



Interitura, simul 

 Pomifer Autumnus fruges effudertt, et mox 



Bruma recurrit iners. HOR. 



MR. SPECTATOR: There is hardly any 

 thing gives me a more sensible delight 

 than the enjoyment of a cool still evening 

 after the uneasiness of a hot sultry day. Such 

 a one I passed not long ago, which made me 

 rejoice when the hour was come for the sun to 

 set, that I might enjoy the freshness of the 

 evening in my garden, which then affords me 

 the pleasantest hours I pass in the whole four 

 and twenty. I immediately rose from my 

 couch, and went down into it. You descend 

 at first by twelve stone steps into a large 

 square divided into four grass-plots, in each 



* The authorship of this paper is conjectural. Possibly 

 Pope or Dr. Parnell. 



