Sir Roger De Coverley
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Excerpt from Sir Roger De Coverley: Essays From the Spectator Richard Steele and Joseph Addison were almost of the same age. They were both born in the year 1672 - Steele, a lawyer´s son, in Dublin, about the 12th of March (1671, old style); Addison in a Wiltshire parsonage on the following 1st of May. Steele had already lost both father and mother, and was very friendless, when he was sent to Charterhouse School as a boy on the foundation. There he first met Joseph Addison. Addison came of a clerical family; his father, Lancelot, had been a poor clergyman. His grandfather had held a poor living in Westmoreland. His mother was a clergyman´s daughter. An uncle became Bishop of Bristol when that see gave the title of Bishop with an income of £400 a year. Addison´s father, however, was an able man, and had a friend in Joseph Williamson, afterwards Sir Joseph, and a Secretary of State, who gave him the living of Milston, in Wiltshire, worth £120 a year. On this he had married, and the firstborn of the marriage was gratefully named Joseph, after the patron who had made marriage possible. The same patron continued his good offices, and Lancelot Addison had become Dean of Lichfield when he sent his son Joseph to the Charterhouse. Steele and Addison as schoolboys were alike in deep-seated religious feeling, and in the possession of that genius which has made their names still pleasant in our ears. They differed greatly in external accidents of character. Steele, with an Irish warmth of kindliness, was frank, social, forgetful of himself; Addison was reserved, shy, and, except in free intercourse with a few intimate friends, embarrassed by self-consciousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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