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above, four in total) all come from his reflections on the ‘Pleasures of the Imagination’
(in nos. 412, 414, and 415). Most of the concordance lines come from passages that
describe the effects that works of art, whether literary or non-literary, have on the reader
or viewer. Note the large number of emotion words in these lines. ‘Emotion’ is likely to
be stirred up (line 9) and ‘sentiment’ inflamed (line 13) in the reader, whose mind may
be ‘happily’ unbent (line 15); the mind of the beholder of some aesthetically pleasing
phenomena – here ‘(p)rospects’ – would tend towards ‘delight’ (line 6), although a
‘suffering’ mind may also be affected by ‘shame’ or ‘sorrow’ (line 10), and a reader’s
mind afflicted with ‘anguis(h)’ (line 2), ‘horrour’ (line 4) or ‘horrour’ (line 11). If,
following Sinclair (1991), we refer to the semantic company that a word or (part of) a
phrase has a preference for as its ‘semantic prosody’, these lines would suggest that for
Addison the cluster the mind of the has a semantic prosody laden with emotion.
Turning to the data for Steele, of the 23 four-word clusters generated three semantic
groupings can be identified. Two of the groups, a ‘humanity’ set and a ‘characteristics
of personality’ set reflect content over structure. The ‘humanity’ group includes six
clusters, the rest of mankind, the generality of mankind, a man of wit, a man who is, for
a man of, man of wit and, and the ‘personality’ group four: of wit and pleasure, a man
of wit, man of wit and, the character of a. Life in society was a major theme noted in the
Steele keyword analysis, and this is reinforced by the importance of these two sets of
clusters. The one remaining major group, which contains quantifying expressions (the
rest of the, rest of the world, the rest of mankind, a great deal of, the generality of
mankind), is less contentful, but links with the any and all set of quantifiers identified
earlier (see Table 4 above) and indicates a tendency to quantify in Steele’s prose.
Finally, the ‘Life in Society’ orientation of Steele’s Spectator contributions is
highlighted when we examine a sample of the concordance lines for the rest of the:
1 tion as appeared indifferent to all the rest of the Company. Upon such
2 some Foundation for his Reports of the rest of the Company, as well a
3 or ungracefully distinguished from the rest of the Company, you equal
4 No Man ought to have the Esteem of the rest of the World, for any Act
5 ade an Apology for not joining with the rest of the World in their ord
6 not send to the Nation from whence the rest of the World has borrowed
7 or their Sakes, for dressing unlike the rest of the World, or passing
8 have one particular Privilege above the rest of the World, of being sl
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