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  1. Apr 9, 2024 · Reginald P.C. Mutter. Sir Richard Steele was an English essayist, dramatist, journalist, and politician, best known as principal author (with Joseph Addison) of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator. Steele’s father, an ailing and somewhat ineffectual attorney, died when the son was about five, and the boy was.

  2. Apr 3, 2024 · Joseph Addison (1 May 1672 – 17 May 1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the eldest son of Lancelot Addison . His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele , with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

  3. Apr 4, 2024 · At the end of that challenging encampment, Gen. George Washington permitted a performance of English Whig Joseph Addison’s Cato: A Tragedy (perhaps at Bake House) on Monday, May 4, 1778. The Continental Congress had, however, prohibited theater-going (and other cultural rites) in 1774 in its effort to pressure Parliament into repealing the ...

  4. 4 days ago · The Spectator was famous periodical of essays by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison which started onMarch 1, 1711.@RaushanShresth

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  5. 2 days ago · There is no denying the sheer pleasure in being able to skip easily between such delights as The frauds of Romish monks and priests set forth in eight letters (1725), Maximilien Misson’s cool and blasé observations on prostitution in Rome and Venice (1739 edn.), and Joseph Addison’s surprisingly vehement criticism of the beef tax in Naples ...

  6. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu › cfp › 2024/04/14cfp | call for papers

    Apr 15, 2024 · Keywords: Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Wit and Humour in 18th century England. Paper: "Nothing is so much admired, and so little understood, as Wit," writes Joseph Addison in 1711 (Spectator 1: 217) The Spectator series centres on the figure of the Spectator as the authoritative observer of the society within which he moves.

  7. 5 days ago · The essay "Sir Roger at Home" shows how the author was invited to stay at the country house of Sir Roger. The paper narrates the story of how he spent his da...

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