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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.
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It was followed by A Poem on the death of Joseph Addison, 1720. [4] In 1753 appeared Concio ad Clerum, and in 1755 An Essay tending to promote Religion, London, a piece half prose and half verse, making clear show his disappointment at not having a canonry of St Paul's Cathedral to add to the archdeaconry. He speaks of his chaplaincy, and ...
This begins the Whig Split which lasts until 1720. [4] 12 April – writer and politician Joseph Addison is appointed Southern Secretary in the remodelled government now dominated by James Stanhoe; 24 June – Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded. [5]
17 June – Joseph Addison, writer and politician (born 1672) 23 June – Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer and Member of Parliament (born 1684) 17 July – Elinor James, pamphleteer (born 1644) 7 September – John Harris, encyclopaedist (born c. 1666)
(1672–1719) Joseph Addison (c. 1678–1707) George Farquhar (1685–1732) John Gay (1693–1739) George Lillo (c. 1700–1766) William Rufus Chetwood (1707–1754) Henry Fielding (1717–1779) David Garrick (1720–1777) Samuel Foote (1728–1774) Oliver Goldsmith (1732–1794) George Colman the Elder (1732–1811) Richard Cumberland (born ...
1711 in literature – The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele; First print version of Jack the Giant Killer, published in two parts by J. White; The Courier for Hell by Chikamatsu Monzaemon; An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope; 1712 in literature – Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
"What Cato did, and Addison approved, cannot be wrong." [1]: 74 [23] — Eustace Budgell, English writer and politician (4 May 1737); his suicide note, written before drowning himself in the Thames. Joseph Addison was Budgell's cousin. "It would be hard indeed if we two dear friends should part after so many years, without one sweet kiss."